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- Type: Article
- Author: Chris Davis
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Breaking down the successes and challenges of living abroad as a duo. One evening last spring, I was walking through Madrid with a fellow teaching friend when he asked how travelling with my girlfriend, Lauren, compared to travelling alone. In my...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Chris Davis
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Why Chris ditched the rungs of the corporate ladder for a life abroad. Depending who you ask, my life so far has either been an unorthodox adventure of surprises and risk, or the predictable path of a millennial. After graduating in 2010—an abysmal...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jennalyn Christopherson
- Category: Work Abroad
Five marketable skills that you'll develop as an EFL teacher. Most EFL teachers don’t want to pursue teaching when we get back to our home country. Teaching English abroad can feel like a wasted few months, resumé-wise. I’ve heard rumours that it's...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Izabela Wlodarczyk
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Weighing the true cost of adaptability. In the field of international development, we are often told that we need to flexible. Everyone needs to be flexible—employees, volunteers, and organizational partners. We write the word on our resumes, on our...
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Dear Volunteers of the Worldhttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/2016-2/departments/dear-volunteers
- Type: Article
- Author: Maggie Kirkpatrick
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
An open letter to all the volunteers abroad. Why are you here? I ask you this question not in a sarcastic or rhetorical way, but literally. In a way that I hope encourages you to think about the answer. What is the reason you want to volunteer?...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Alicia Williams
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Three tools for learning a foreign language. In March, I arrived in Colombia with very little knowledge of Spanish. Although I'd taken some classes, they had mostly focused on grammar and not so much on conversation. Although my program didn’t require...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emma McDowell
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
An introduction to the US Fulbright Program. “Wow! Good for you!” “A full-what?” “Hmm...sounds really...interesting,” “What exactly is this Fulbrighty business?” I am not sure how many different reactions I have received when I have begun to explain...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emma McDowell
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
As a new EFL teacher in Thailand, Emma struggles to embrace her sudden celebrity status. I had accepted the fact that my 15 minutes of fame had come and gone in fourth grade. My watercolour painting (entitled “Pebbles the Cat”) had been a hit in the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Maggie Kirkpatrick
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
After returning from Guatemala, Maggie finds herself trapped in post-travel purgatory. I never feel as vulnerable as I do when I am in airports. Other people tell me how much they love them: the excitement; the ambience of journeys about to be embarked...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Ryan Mallett-Outrim
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Could mushrooms be magic for one of Mexico's poorest regions? I felt like Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad. Thrust into a world of precise measurements, technical procedures, and techno music—all the while, learning from a veteran of the trade. The Walter...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Alicia Williams
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
When a volunteer opportunity doesn't pan out as expected, Alicia learns a valuable lesson. Near the end of my time in Colombia, I had the opportunity to volunteer at an English immersion camp. These two-week camps are set up in a similar fashion as the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Sydney Vogl
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Heading home for a visit? Prepare your answers for these standard queries in advance. After spending the past three months in Australia, I decided to trade my swimmers for more swimmers and go to Los Angeles, California for the holidays. Coming home...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Bernice Yanful
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Volunteer health and medical placements abroad can be enormously beneficial, or terribly irresponsible. Here are five ways to avoid common pitfalls. As a high school student, Alisha Attema was inspired as she sat in an auditorium listening to a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kaelyn Lynch
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
For young Indonesians, a new land of opportunity could lie beneath the sea. The twisting, swirling mass of barracuda could only be described as a tornado. The students remained motionless, eyes glued to the spectacle before them. In my hundreds of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Joe Aultman-Moore
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Golden goose or red herring? A veteran WWOOFer shares his top tips for choosing a volunteer farm placement. If you’re interested in travelling and aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty—literally—there’s no better way to do it than through one of the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Emma Goetzman
- Category: Budget Traveller
On the upside, we had a lovely, high-speed side-tour of Rome. I glance down at my watch for what feels like the millionth time that day. One minute left. “Let’s go!” I yell over my shoulder to Laura, as I start to run. When Laura and I arrived in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Budget Traveller
There's a big difference between getting people to pay for your wanderlust and garnering support for a worthy cause. The backpacker who wants to volunteer his way through wildlife sanctuaries; the vet student seeking an internship in South Africa; the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Nele van Hout
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
A semester can seem very long when you're far from home. Here's how to cope. I love living in England; moving to a different country to study has been the best decision that I've ever made. However, that doesn't mean that I don't get homesick every now...
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Hey, Mr. Cab Driverhttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/work-abroad/193-blogs/1929-taxiiii
- Type: Article
- Author: Allan Gould
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Taxi rides in Shanghai are never straight-forward affairs. The comedian, Fred Allen, once said “the first thing to strike a visitor in Paris is the taxi.” This is also true for Shanghai if we understand strike in the literal sense, not the figurative....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Mikee Mutuc
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
To all the people I met during term overseas; see you soon. I wish I could physically open my heart to show you exactly how grateful I am for the kindness you have shown me in these last few months. Even on my last day, as we are all going through a...
