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- Type: Article
- Author: Maggie Kirkpatrick
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How one transformative travel experience leads to another. I didn't choose to be born a middle-class Caucasian Canadian, but because I was, my life has been easy. I grew up as an obnoxious overachiever in a small town. My first solo voyage out of said...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Maggie Kirkpatrick
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Should we be afraid to travel solo as women? When I was in university, I considered myself a pretty good student. But there was one class I nearly failed: astronomy. As an arts student, it was a requirement to take two science classes, so I decided to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Joe Aultman-Moore
- Category: Budget Traveller
Here are some tips to help you get out on the road. Hitchhiking can be challenging. But if you keep in mind through difficult times that you will be better for it—more patient, resourceful and confident—something fantastic will always be right around...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Adele Priestley
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Falling in love can lead to dramatic changes in plans, unexpected developments and life lessons learned. Growing up in Vermont, my first love was probably snow, and my second love was definitely skiing. I had a ski pass almost before I could walk, and,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor Smith
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
You don't have to go home for the holidays. Here are 5 reasons you should explore the Amalfi Coast instead. Christmas and New Year's is usually a time spent with family and close friends, even for most travellers.This year, however, was the first year...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Steph Dyson
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Steph learns more about the daily lives and hardships of the young people that her charity supports. “I want to go to university to study hotel administration and work in hospitality, and then maybe in the future become an accountant,” Juana tells me,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Cynthia Ma
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Packing up to go home is harder than it sounds. Here's how to make it easier. So your time abroad is almost at an end. Time to say goodbye to the new life you lived for too short a period of time. Your new friends and your new habits cannot come home...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kelly Iverson
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
As a stranger in a strange country, working abroad can be lonely. How Kelly copes with travelling solo. An airplane flies overhead. My refrigerator buzzes; the sound of war as it combats the heat while attempting to keep my beer, water and expired milk...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kelly Iverson
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How to move on when your most precious possession goes missing. The awfully bright day all but mocks me as I make my way back to my hostel. My joints ache with regret. My head pounds with misery. Sorrow sits in the back of my throat, pulsing away like...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How do you move forward after your working holiday ends? Exactly a year ago, I was living on a vineyard in southwest Australia. More specifically, I was living in a trailer next to a chicken coop behind my landlord’s house, right next to the fields of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Tori Holmes
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Feeling homesick while working abroad? Tori discovers that you can find a piece of home wherever you are. One of the best things about working abroad is the opportunity to immerse yourself in a new culture. Between trying new foods, learning a new...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kelly Iverson
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Think you want to teach abroad? Be prepared to test your limits. I am woken up by the beating of a hammer next door. Construction in my apartment apparently begins at five a.m. If my alarm wasn’t already set for six, you might’ve found me up in arms,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kelly Iverson
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
It's not all cocktails and beaches. This has to be it. This has to be my all-time low. I think this to myself as I lug my stained comforter onto the balcony of my hotel, not mentally fit or physically strong enough to deal with the fact that I have...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Gina Mussio
- Category: Work Abroad
Think that teaching English is a quick ticket to long-term travels? While it is a great way to explore other countries, it’s not quite that easy. My long relationship with Italy—I studied the language for years, lived in Florence for a semester and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kylynn Pelkey
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
As a Peace Corps volunteer discovers, sometimes the very smallest things can make or break an experience abroad. It was probably the sound of guns that prevented me from being aware of the real danger. Gangsters on my computer screen shot at each other...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Rebecca Shapiro
- Category: Work Abroad
How to leverage an internship overseas for career success at home. I hoisted myself up, praying silently that my poor mum would never discover that my first time on a motorbike was being attempted sans helmet. However, it would be difficult to hide the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Evelyn Harford
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Tips for reflecting on your role as a traveller in developing countries. Many of us travel to be better people and help out as a global citizen. Yet, some well-meaning vagabonds come home and feel disappointed by their volunteer experience. It’s like...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor Smith
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Settling in abroad may not be mutually exclusive with routine. Taylor explains why. When I left home, I left mentally prepared to build a new life in a new location. I knew it would be unfamiliar and different, but I was ready to take on any surprise....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Christine Estima
- Category: Budget Traveller
Is there such thing as a free holiday? Maybe not, but housesitting comes pretty darn close. It's a balmy August morning and I wake up to the sounds and scents of Paris; the Vespas zooming through the narrow quarter, the warm, freshly baked bread from...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Maarten Dankers
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Organic farms in remote Costa Rica offer volunteers a model for sustainable living. It’s Friday night in Mastatal, Costa Rica. A mix of locals and gringos mill around an open-air bar along the only road passing through the tiny jungle town. Crooked...
