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Keeping your cool in an uncomfortable situation. We’ve all heard disaster stories about a friend-of-a-friend that got their wallet or their passport stolen while travelling. Even after hearing more than my fair share, I continued to write these stories...
- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
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After a sports injury abroad, Sidrah finds her happy place. I have been in a rut the past few weeks. Living abroad has its challenges, and I've dealt with my share all at once. I can almost guarantee that this will happen to you at some point. When you...
- Type: Article
- Author: Sidrah Shams
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
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Trina experiences a Ugandan celebration of life. The small pickup truck that was meant to carry Edna from the church to her humble home took off, crammed with women draped in bright folds of cloth and headscarves that shone like gold, and men wearing...
- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Creating the ultimate international itinerary. One of the first things anyone does when they start thinking about travelling is creating a sort of itinerary or route in their head. “This is where I want to go, what I want to see, places I would like to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Greg Snell
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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What happens once the culture shock has worn off? I’ve been back in New Zealand for four months now, and lately I feel like I’ve hit a bit of a wall. The start of my return trip was filled with exciting things: reuniting with my boyfriend after five...
- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Sometimes, communication has nothing to do with words. Over the last 10 years, I’ve traveled and worked extensively with rural communities in Latin America. Today I live in a rural town of southwestern Uganda in East Africa. Wherever I go, wherever I’m...
- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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What working abroad looks like once the honeymoon is over. Wow, what a hectic few months. Unfortunately the blog has been on a bit of a hiatus while I’ve been travelling and then settling back in to work with additional responsibilities for the new...
- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Brook
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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The best aspect of reverse culture shock is figuring out what you were taking for granted. Having returned from my internship in Hong Kong over two months ago now, the memories of Asia still remain fresh and continue to astound me everyday. Coming from...
- Type: Article
- Author: Monica Hrubcin
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Caretaking means taking careful time to choose the perfect family away from home. I studied abroad my spring semester in my junior year of college and fell head over heels in love with the city I was in. I wracked my brain trying to think of ways I...
- Type: Article
- Author: Emily Fritz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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You know if someone is a traveller by how they greet their friends. After six months of being abroad, many things have changed in my life—actually almost everything has changed. A major change I have noticed is relationships with the people in my life....
- Type: Article
- Author: Amber Birch
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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A guide to surviving an Austrian heat wave. The day I left Pennsylvania was a day that was about 30 degrees and sunny. I was sad that I was leaving my warm sunny weather in my home state. I had been told previously that summers in Austria aren’t really...
- Type: Article
- Author: Emily Fritz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Trina looks beyond the international development buzzwords. Before coming to Uganda, I used to write reports for international development projects from a padded swivel chair and shiny desktop in Edmonton, Alberta. There were particular “development”...
- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Think you've got a busy day? Wait until you read about Leah's average day volunteering in South America. 6 am – 8:30 am: I wake up and prepare the day’s lessons. If necessary, I take a combi (minibus) into the city center to purchase supplies. 8:30 am...
- Type: Article
- Author: Leah Davidson
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Taking small steps to make big adjustments. 1. Don’t Judge Days ago you were in a meeting with government officials discussing the future of youth unemployment in developing nations and now you’re catching up on B-list celebs in C-list tabloids. When...
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- Author: Kayla Kozan
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Taking advantage of the great outdoors on the other side of the world. Coming back for a second winter in Queenstown, the adventure capital of the world, it’s been an unofficial goal of mine to take more advantage of the outdoors. In the past few weeks...
- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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The toll of six months spent abroad. Although I only spent six weeks in Ghana, I tacked my internship with Youth Challenge International on to the tail end of an additional six months travelling and studying abroad. By the time I returned home I had...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kayla Kozan
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Checking-in: Phoebe packs her bags and returns home to Canada. Five months ago, I packed my life into a bag. During my time on academic exchange in Melbourne I managed to see Sydney, southern Australia, Perth, north and southwestern Australia, Fiji,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Phoebe Todd-Parrish
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
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Do you have what it takes to work on-board a yacht? When I first started working in the yachting industry, I would hear from people here and there that it isn’t for everybody. But I didn’t give it much thought. “That won’t be me,” I figured. What they...
- Type: Article
- Author: Victoria Bourhill
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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The meals that bind us. Wide varieties of cultures and traditions exist around the globe, like the Karen tribes that practice neck stretching in northern Thailand, or the widely-accepted belief that elves roam caves along the Icelandic coast. However,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
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Tired of hearing the stereotypes, a Dutch-Canadian decides to set the record straight. Cheese, clogs, canals, tulips, windmills, legalized marijuana, and tall blonde people on bicycles: these are the iconic imagines that typically come to mind when the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Katelyn Verstraten
- Category: Study Abroad
