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What it's really like to work as an Auxiliar de Conversación in Madrid. If you’re a non-European looking to move to Spain, becoming a language assistant is one of the least stressful ways to do it. In exchange for a student visa and €1,000 a month, a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Victoria Adamo
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Cambodia is experiencing the worst drought in decades. How can travellers and expats help? After spending a weekend sweating while working in Cambodia, I’ve realized that there is seemingly no end to the heat in that country. To put it mildly, the past...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kiana Zemenchik
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Sometimes the best travel companion is yourself. Studying abroad, you’re going to make a lot of amazing friends. People from all around the world who inspire and challenge you, and who make this once foreign place feel like home. It may seem a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Meghan McKenna
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
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Travellers have the power to change Burma—for better or for worse. “Go right now,” has been the mantra of every travel publication about Burma since 2012. It is touted as a sliver of “old Asia,” preserved in a cryogenic deep freeze by the isolationist...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kaelyn Lynch
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Is there a difference? Or are there other factors at play? I found myself with too much time on my hands. My first term of teaching had come to an end, and I was allotted a handful of weeks to do whatever it was that I wanted to do. Did I choose to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kelly Iverson
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Which shots do you really need? It depends not only on where you're going, but also what you'll be doing there. Part two of a two-part series. Did you know that not all travellers receive the same vaccination recommendations? Depending on your travel...
- Type: Article
- Author: Daphne Hendsbee, Tullia Marcolongo
- Category: Travel Health
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Participating in discussions with Buddhist monks teaches Kaelyn the art of Burmese conversation. The sky outside the monastery hall turned from rust to coal as storm clouds swallowed the setting sun. Torrents of rain and strong gusts of wind threatened...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kaelyn Lynch
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Don't let Europe's complex array of bus, rail and air travel networks and schedules leave you scratching your head. There’s no doubt about it, Europe can be complicated to navigate. Each nation still has its own rail network, different bus companies...
- Type: Article
- Author: Katherine Shanahan, Sponsor content
- Category: Budget Traveller
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A manual on how to land a job as a North American in the United Kingdom. With my to-do list, computer and steaming cup of coffee, I get settled into my favourite comfy spot. I have a list of tasks in front of me with the entire day to complete them. I...
- Type: Article
- Author: Sydney Paulsen
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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How to manage your relationship with your new host family. It had barely been two weeks since my arrival when I left my Irish host family. It was nearing midnight as I threw all my things into my bags and told my host dad that I was leaving. I hugged...
- Type: Article
- Author: Krista McGowan
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Parenting abroad and across the ocean requires strong family communication. At 17, your friends are everything. So when your parents announce that they’re taking you 5,000 kilometres away from home for a year, it’s exciting—and dreadful. That’s how my...
- Type: Article
- Author: Diane Moore
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
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The truths behind many travellers' Instagram accounts. “How did you just drop everything and go?” asked a friend recently. Moving abroad was an attempt to satisfy a craving for experience—but the longer I stay, the more insatiable it becomes. It’s the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Victoria Adamo
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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No textbooks necessary. I’ve dreamed of becoming fluent in Spanish for more than half of my life. But in my first months abroad studying and teaching in Spain, I only got awkward stares when asking for the “salida.” But just a few months later, I was...
- Type: Article
- Author: Victoria Adamo
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Five differences between New York and Spain. After 90-hour workweeks in New York, I thought moving to Spain would just be a stress-free siesta with some teaching in-between. Within the first month, reality set in and knocked that vino tinto—or in my...
- Type: Article
- Author: Victoria Adamo
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Kaelyn explores the impact of one phrase on her life and Burma's future. The first time I heard the words ya ba deh was in the back of a taxi, weaving through the congested streets of Yangon. “I’m going to teach you your first Burmese phrase,” Ashin...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kaelyn Lynch
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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What happens when the boundaries between "travel" and "real life" begin to blur? It was never my intention to get stuck in Guatemala. The plan was to be gone for six months, head home, find a “real job” and get my life in order. So when I was faced...
- Type: Article
- Author: Maggie Kirkpatrick
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Looking beyond Western ideals of what makes a "modern" country. If one were to drive, cycle or walk across the American-Canadian border, how much would it immediately feel like you’ve entered a new country? The answer is arguably very little—but when...
- Type: Article
- Author: Tom Collins
- Category: Volunteer Abroad Blogs
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Want to learn Spanish? Grow your career? Just chill out? Dependent on your goals, not all Latin American regions are equal. The travel bug first bit me when I decided to put my Spanish major to good use and study abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina....
- Type: Article
- Author: Carley Clement
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Taylor learns that gender equality is subjective to where you are in the world, not who you are. After eight months living in the Middle East, I’ve experienced and witnessed countless adversarial and discriminatory acts against women simply because...
- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor Smith
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Cathy Hue works crazy hours, lives in a little wooden shed and spends three out of four weeks in the bush. She wouldn't trade it for anything. "Slender mongoose!" Cathy Hue interrupts again, as if it’s the first—and not the sixth—time one has darted...
- Type: Article
- Author: Chelsea Schuyler
- Category: Why we travel
