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- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
I say "banana" and you say. . ."kabaragala"? When I first came to Kabale, a small town-centre tucked away in the south-western corner of Uganda, I was determined to learn Rukiga, a dialect belonging to the Bakiga ethnic group. I remember flipping...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Adele Priestley
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Sometimes, it's best to ignore everyone's advice. “I’ll see you on Monday if you survive,” my student told me as he kissed me on the right cheek and walked out the door. “Yes, I hope you live,” echoed his wife exiting behind him. Ever since I bought...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Adele Priestley
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Adele reflects on two months of living in South America and how it's changed her. Two months ago I came to Chile with little knowledge of the country, four years of Italian studies (not Spanish), and a degree in ESL teaching but very limited actual...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Hannah Pym
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Cramming a full year into two small bags. As the countdown continues ticking down, I finally decided it was time to tackle one of the most daunting tasks of all. Packing. While I kept telling myself I had a limit of 30kg to get into my case, in reality...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
What more reason do you need to work abroad? Sometimes when I walked down the hotel’s main driveway after using Wi-Fi, a shuttle would arrive with newcomers. The windows in the back were usually down and the tourists’ eyes would be gaping up at the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Finding local food has never been this hard--or this easy. My preferred place to shop is the Mercado de Abastos, where growers sell fresh produce to both big stores and individuals who are willing to sweat out the part-stroll and part-weight lifting...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Four essentials for the Central American jungle at the low cost of $16.29. Within the first week of my 10 in Panama, I realized that there were things I had forgotten to pack. Fortunately, trips to the mall and the city were simple to coordinate and I...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Gillian Arfin
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Living abroad is the perfect excuse to explore. Here's how to make it happen. One of the things I’ve found the most difficult since settling in Perth is that while I am living and working in one place, my mind is still wandering back to the days of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Liam O'Donovan
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Liam experiences a taste of local sporting culture. When I walked in to Hong Kong Stadium for the first time, I thought I was walking in to the Quidditch World Cup. The way the sides of the stadium arch over the field, the jungle and skyline behind the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrew Scott
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
TESOL certification is a ticket to a summer abroad! For a teacher—just as for a student—summer classes poll at about the same appeal rating as a sandblast colonic. If you can avoid them, feel free to enjoy the long summer holidays, you've surely earned...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Kelly Sheldrick
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
Kelly is cycling 10,000 kilometres. But the reason why might surprise you. “Beep, beep, beep!” The alarm goes off at 5 a.m. It’s the start of another long cycle day along the Silk Road in Turkey’s Central Anatolia. Today we have to climb a 2190-metre...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jonathon Cusack
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
At 30, Jono is ready to say goodbye to the hostel hangovers. Or is he? I was still utterly drenched with sweat. The humidity in Buenos Aires hadn't relented for days, neither had the drive to push our bodies beyond their limits. I was with two girls in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
A visit to Sunday mass enhances Elizabeth's summer abroad. If I wake up at 6:20 a.m., around the same time as the sun, then I can get there by 8. I have never had this long of a commute to get to church. At school, I am used to walking a couple of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Amanda Ariganello–Araujo
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
What it's like to complete a six-week AIESEC internship. After spending six weeks in Colombia, I know what it means to really turn off autopilot. Travelling half a world away, with minimal information on the culture I would be integrating into, I...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Liza Bayless
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Stepping outside of your language safety net. We’ve all felt them at one point or another—language barriers are uncomfortable. Over the past few weeks while backpacking through Bolivia and then finally showing up in the house of my Chilean host family,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Liza Bayless
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
When Liza looks for overseas reading, she looks for more than just a beach book. The summer internship has wrapped up, and now it’s time to start making lists, pulling things together and ultimately setting off to begin my study abroad adventure in...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Gillian Arfin
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
How to make friends in a new environment. Moving to a new country can be terrifying. You don’t know the culture, you have no job, nowhere to live, all of your friends and family are a 24-hour plane trip away. I wasn’t really feeling any of this when my...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Gillian Arfin
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
Gillian was supposed to go to law school, until life got in the way. Living on the other side of the world from friends and family—it’s one of the lows on my list of highs and lows of living in Perth, Western Australia. I have learned that deciding to...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Hannah Pym
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Don't forget to check these off your list before you study abroad. As I am writing this, it is just over a month until I leave on my exchange to England! I am so excited and have been preparing and packing in all my spare time. While everyone thinks of...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Hannah Pym
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
Four questions to help you choose the perfect destination for higher learning. So you have decided you want to go on a student exchange! Excellent! But where to? Some people have always dreamed of a particular place but for others, picking your...
