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- Type: Article
- Author: Sydney Paulsen
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
To work or to travel? A small resolution that will allow you to get the most out of your experience. How do you get the most out of living and working abroad? Do you root yourself into the culture and community, or take advantage of your location and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
After mastering the ins and outs of working overseas, Taylor shares four ways to get a job abroad. When I first pursued the idea of living abroad four years ago, I thought I could put my finger on the map, move to that country, and get a job. Not so,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Diane Moore
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Immigrants from around the world share their impressions about life in Germany. During one of the informal get-togethers with my fellow classmates, my colleagues shared with me their first and now lasting impressions about life in Germany, reasons for...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Carley Clement
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
It's an easy fallback to spend time with other travellers. But how does it affect your experience abroad? When I was studying abroad in Argentina, there was such a big English-speaking expat population there that there was even an English-language...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Carley Clement
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
As an expat, what do you do when fear underpins your every move? Ecuador is like a pincushion; it's stuck with many little holes that burrow down into the core of earth, down into the melted inside. It's incredibly volcanic, and I have decided to live...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tom Collins
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
As Tom bikes closer to Africa, he's startled by his own reliance on stereotypes. On a somewhat cold and blustery morning, we leave the boat from Portsmouth to Bilbao and enter northern Spain. After a traditional Spanish breakfast (consisting of bread...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tom Collins
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Tom is taking a road less travelled, to tell a story that isn't often told. The soldier, the pauper, the killer and the controller. These are the images of the African subject that we find littered throughout Hollywood and the media. A kind of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Abigail Zeitler
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
The case for extending your time overseas beyond your study abroad term. No one ever wants their time study abroad to end, especially once you start to feel at home in a new city or country. Maybe your new home started to become the place you want to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Abigail Zeitler
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Everyone takes a weekend trip while studying abroad, but where do you start? Studying abroad isn’t just about getting to know your surroundings and the locals of the city you are taking classes in. It’s about getting to know and see more of the country...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Irene Whittaker-Cumming
- Category: Why we travel
The start of menarche signals the exciting transition to womanhood. But for girls in Central Africa, it can also mark a new period of isolation and fear. Last year, I developed a newfound understanding of what a girl experiencing puberty goes through....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kiana Zemenchik
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
After teaching English doesn't pan out, Kiana goes for the next best job: pub crawl leader. Bobby is a VietKeo (a Vietnamese/other mix, normally someone who has Vietnamese parents/heritage, but grew up somewhere else) who owns three hostels in Vietnam....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kelly Iverson
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Want to follow the first daughter's example? Here's how to turn your gap year into more than just a party break. I had multiple motivations behind wanting to teach abroad. Let’s get my selfish reasoning out of the way, shall we? I moved to Thailand to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Diane Moore
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
A German language course turns out to be much more than just a bilingual learning experience. As an immigrant, living in a rural German town, my first goal was to be able to speak and understand the people here. I also consider it polite. I am in their...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Diane Moore
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
It's never too late to study abroad, as Diane discovers when her family moves to Germany. Empty-nest syndrome had nothing on us. Months before our youngest daughter graduated a semester early from high school, my husband (a retired U.S. Army veteran)...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Meghan McKenna
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Why you should study abroad in Asia's World City. Looking back, I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I stepped off the plane in Hong Kong. I was anxious, nervous, excited and, for the first time in my life, I was completely on my own and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Meghan McKenna
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
The success of your semester overseas is about far more than just your destination. Returned student Meghan explains. People always ask me, “Why Hong Kong?” Honestly, I didn't really care where I ended up on my semester abroad. I want to see the entire...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kaelyn Lynch
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
The key to packing for long-term travel? Redefining the role that possessions play in your life. Packing is second only to unpacking as my least favourite part of travel. I usually begin the painful process no more than six to 12 hours before my trip,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kaelyn Lynch
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Kaelyn leaves a life of comfort behind—again. Many times, I have seen myself in Bagan, watching as thousands of temples are bathed in golden morning light. Other times, I am sitting with robe-clad men, drinking tea and discussing the practices of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Sydney Paulsen
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
In between the traditional Scottish folk dances, Sydney gains insight into why she's moved abroad. Pursing my lips, I applied the final touches of my lipstick and gave one last inspection to my freshly curled hair. It would do. Pacing back to the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kiana Zemenchik
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Kiana went to Saigon with the intention of teaching English. Little did she know, it was absolutely not for her. When I lived in Prague, I taught several classes to young learners (ages six to 11), four times a week, with 15 students in the class. I...
