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- Type: Article
- Author: Hannah Pym
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
The top five foods to try in the Netherlands. As I was on exchange this year during the festive season, a few friends and I decided to make the most of it. England is close to Europe, so we decided to hop across the pond and ring in the New Year in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jared Tinslay
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Now that the "honeymoon" phase of culture shock is over, Jared struggles to reignite his love for Granada. Amazingly, I’m now into my fifth month in Granada and it’s fair to say that I’ve settled. I’ve got my routines; let’s face it, we all do. Since...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Taylor reflects on the travel resolutions she made in 2014. In the Southern Hemisphere, 2015 for me has been ushered in amidst the madness of the start to summer, preparing for my impending departure from Australia and planning for a two-month tour...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jared Tinslay
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Think midterms are rough? Imagine writing them in an entirely different language. After surpassing the initial hurdle of grasping taking notes in Spanish, my learning experience improved greatly. The first two weeks were more introductory (what I like...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Adele Priestley
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
After months overseas, Adele starts small with the simple act of ordering a coffee. I was standing in line at Starbucks, scanning the menu above the counter and giddily anticipating my first real, large-sized, strongly-caffeinated espresso drink in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Sagan Pope
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Breathe deeply and take one of these. It’s starts with the excitement of planning a trip—whether it’s going home to visit family or to visit a new city, country or continent. And then as the countdown starts, so does my anxiety. This is how I travel....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Cora Siebert
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The holidays are over, but ones abroad are never to be forgotten. As December came to La Réunion, I almost forgot what time of year it was with the 30+ degree weather. Like myself, many teaching assistants in La Réunion found themselves without family...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Liza Bayless
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Liza prepares to return home. A few nights ago, I walked into my house late after a long day. My host mom, who was up ironing, asked if I was hungry and as usual, my inclination was to say no; it was almost midnight and I was exhausted. But I had been...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Hannah Pym
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Even after months abroad, Hannah is still thrown off by some key differences. I have been in England for just over three months now and while I still have a long time to go on my exchange, I feel right at home with English culture. However, there are a...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jared Tinslay
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
A British student discovers that studying in Spanish won't be his only challenge abroad. After what seemed like a lifelong bus journey I finally arrived in Granada, my new home for the next year. The snow-capped Sierra Nevada and locals with winter...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Reflections on an Australian Working Holiday Visa. Ten months ago now, at the end of January, I had just arrived in Melbourne, Australia, jobless, nearly penniless and with only a vague notion of how the year ahead of me would unfold. It was a big...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Sagan Pope
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Displaced during the holidays, Sagan finds new reasons—and ways—to celebrate No matter what holiday it may be that you’re missing while being away from your native country, it can bring a little heartache or happiness—or it could even bring both. For...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Cora Siebert
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Tips for TEFL teachers for engaging even the quiestest students. As an English Language Assistant on Reunion Island, or La Réunion, I teach all of my lessons at a high school in Saint-André, a small city on the east coast of the island. English for...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Adele Priestley
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Tricks of the trade from two veteran tour guides. In my seven months in South America, I have had the privilege of meeting many people, a list that includes both native Chileans as well as travellers. My introduction speech has been rehearsed and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jared Tinslay
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Jared explains why he decided to leave the UK to further his education. Spain is a pretty vast country—the fourth largest in Europe, in fact—so when it came to choosing a city in which to study it wasn’t an easy decision. I had already spent two years...
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A Long Way Downhttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/study-abroad/194-blogs/1405-a-long-way-down
- Type: Article
- Author: Hannah Pym
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Why studying abroad is the perfect excuse to join a new club, especially for the adventurous. Somehow during my year abroad, I managed to find myself clinging to the side of a mountain on a windy and rainy day in the Lake District. I had always enjoyed...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jared Tinslay
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Jared discovers that working in Spain is more than just a great excuse to eat tapas. I’d been warned. University life, despite my denial and eventual sulking, would have to one day come to an end. And for those of us with no job lined up on completion;...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Gillian Arfin
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
The differences between Christmas in Canada and "down under." In less than four weeks, I’ll be boarding the plane to head home for Christmas and to see my friends and family for the first time in two years. I am so excited that I can barely contain...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Work Abroad
No passport require for these work "abroad" programs. Like countless other students with wanderlust, I spent my school years dreaming of exciting summers working abroad. As a tourism student at Ryerson University in Toronto, I envisioned an opportunity...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Lockhart
- Category: Work Abroad
Be strategic about your international experience and stand out from the crowd. When Monica Arora decided to pursue her MBA, she wasn’t willing to settle for becoming just another business graduate. “I felt like I needed to differentiate myself,” she...
