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Born into war in Lebanon, Doctors Without Borders veteran Richard Zereik knows what it means to be a refugee. The central prison in Georgetown, Guyana, was much like one might imagine. High walls and filthy cells, an overcrowded courtyard, a shack in...
- Type: Article
- Author: James Stairs
- Category: Work Abroad
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Is travelling solo a dying art? Being enrolled in a program with avid travellers from 44 nationalities definitely has its perks: you can brush up on your second (third or fourth) language, you can try homemade cuisine from all over the world, you have...
- Type: Article
- Author: Roop Gill
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
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Trina learns the true meaning of the phrase "no hurry in Africa." Seven months of volunteering in Kabale, a small dusty town nestled in the green terraced hills of southwestern Uganda, as a writer with the Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Trina Moyles
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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I ask myself if I am crazy on a daily basis. I am buying a one-way ticket to Tanzania. It's more expensive than a return flight, and it's definitely one of the scariest things I have ever done. I have no return date and since leaving a surprisingly...
- Type: Article
- Author: Alyssa McDonald
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Making the most of a summer overseas. 1. Starting my microenterprise project. Every day for two to three hours, I teach a class on leadership and business to a group of 10 to 15 girls in the rural district of San Pedro de Sano. I also work on their...
- Type: Article
- Author: Leah Davidson
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Leah's top reasons for spending a summer abroad. My friends were all telling me about their summer internships working for start-ups, investment banks, and consulting companies. “What are you doing, Leah?” they asked. For the longest time, I’ve...
- Type: Article
- Author: Leah Davidson
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Guidelines for getting the most out of your new environment. As I’m getting ready to go abroad and work as an au pair, I constantly think about the new German village that I will be living in. The excitement of finding that perfect café, the perfect...
- Type: Article
- Author: Emily Fritz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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How to ease the transition overseas. There is a point where all travellers will eventually cross continents looking for that next adventure, the new job, the opportunity to see and do more. Anyone travelling overseas will have this transition—the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Greg Snell
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Greg reflects on whether he has what it takes to do one of the "best jobs in the world." Two months ago, I joined 8,000 something video applicants with the hopes of obtaining one of Tourism Australia’s Best Jobs in the World as “Wildlife Caretaker” on...
- Type: Article
- Author: Greg Snell
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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The best vantage points to see the city from a new angle. Taiwanese nightmarkets light up the evening with their colourful signs. Multiple nightmarkets and buildings added up make the night view of Taipei a spectacularly shiny one. I have four spots to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vivien Lee
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Valuable tips for those heading to Takoradi for the first time. Takoradi is the third largest city in Ghana in the Western region, and growing rapidly due to recent discovery of oil in the region. For the six weeks that I’m in Ghana, I’ve had the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Stephanie Liauw
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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The realities of a life overseas. If you’ve been keeping up with the rest of my series, you might be starting to feel (and rightly so!) that my blog posts seem to be all over the place—up one month and down the next, switching from topic to topic....
- Type: Article
- Author: Allison Burney
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Judi explores the best sights that Ho Chi Minh City has to offer. As English is the most widely spoken language on the planet, it’s possible to travel around even remote regions of Southeast Asia without getting lost in translation, depending on the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
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Vivien learns to challenge stereotypes; both her own and others. Before travelling to anywhere in the world for the first time, you might search for and ask friends for some information on your destination. You will want to understand the place more so...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vivien Lee
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Overcoming the unknown as a solo female traveller. As a female, there are a myriad of concerns about traveling solo that the opposite sex simply do not (in most cases) have to worry about. From date rape drugs to kidnappings, what we see in the media...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eva Zhu
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Careful review of your contract can prevent unnecessary surprises at your new job overseas. Reviewing a contract for that long-anticipated teaching gig is an exciting and often nerve-wracking time. This is your last chance to make sure everything is on...
- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Dinan
- Category: Work Abroad
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An outsider's guide to working abroad in one of the world's greatest cities. When I was a teenager I dreamed of moving to London and working for the BBC. I wasn’t sure what the job itself would be, but I knew it would be important; like documentary...
- Type: Article
- Author: Cat Mills
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Adapting plans: when social media is the Sunday market. Fresh out of business school with a head full of textbook answers, I pictured myself working with young entrepreneurs in Ghana. How to best leverage your e-commerce start up? Easy. Press release...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kayla Kozan
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Once the "honeymoon" wears off, what's the best way to settle in? The first couple of weeks in a new country are the most daunting period; anxiety, stress and excitement all mixed into one. After the initial feelings have worn off, it is easy to feel...
- Type: Article
- Author: Stephanie Liauw
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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When I booked a flight to Vietnam, I knew (somewhere in the back of my mind) that it would mean arriving in a communist country and therefore a one-party state. However, I had no idea what this actually meant and how much it would affect my experience...
- Type: Article
- Author: Judi Zienchuk
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
