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To the Dogshttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/volunteer-abroad/1395-to-the-dogs
How to save the lives of strays by volunteering abroad. I spotted the dog in a dumpster by my hotel in Bali. Filthy, weak and emaciated, she couldn’t compete with the other strays searching for food among the debris. I tossed her my lunch—chicken,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Noa Glow
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
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Five unique seasonal opportunities to work your way around the world. “Alaska?” The worry in my mom’s voice was palpable. “Why Alaska?” In retrospect, I understand her apprehension. The last frontier of the American wilderness and home of the reality...
- Type: Article
- Author: Betsy McCausland
- Category: Work Abroad
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The Mourning Afterhttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/volunteer-abroad/1393-the-mourning-after
Volunteers in Cameroon promote widow rights instead of widow rites. In some villages in Cameroon, there is no such thing as a natural death. Traditional beliefs dictate that bad spirits—or bad people—must be behind the passing. Particularly, it seems,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Sean Kelly
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
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Flight to Damascushttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/articles/study-abroad/1392-flight-to-damascus
Study abroad student Michaela Yule works undercover to document the lives of Iraqi refugees living in Syria. Salaam alaaykum. Shloonich? Zeena, ilhamdu lillaah. Shukran. Allah bil-kheer. Greetings. How are you? Well, praise God. Thank you. God bless. I...
- Type: Article
- Author: Michela Yule
- Category: Study Abroad
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Think you're travelling Solo? No, you're not. I've been travelling the Pan-American Highway now for about nine months. I could have had a baby in that time. (Well, I did drink some Llama Sperm in Bolivia but haven't felt any kicks yet.) In that time, I...
- Type: Article
- Author: Jonathon Cusack
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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How to throw out the guidebook and make your own adventure. So you've been staring at that Lonely Planet you've had forever and a day and at long last made the choice to put it in a backpack. As romantic as Kerouac and Hemingway make it out to be, most...
- Type: Article
- Author: Jonathon Cusack
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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An unexpected bonus of teaching English overseas. When I signed up to teach English on an island off the coast of Africa, I can’t say that I expected to find myself jumping up and down to the remixes of Major Lazer. But surprisingly, the British...
- Type: Article
- Author: Cora Siebert
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Don't forget to add these six activities to your study abroad bucket list. It’s a few months into the abroad experience and—dare I even say it—the end is in sight. A month and a half from now, I’ll be packing bags to head out of Chile. There’s still a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Liza Bayless
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
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10 things teaching English as a second language has taught me. As children we develop the idea that teachers are strange, untouchable and not normal people. They know everything and they never make mistakes. They don’t have a life away from school;...
- Type: Article
- Author: Adele Priestley
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Work as a freelance translator might just be the perfect portable career. It's Thursday, 9 a.m., and I'm windsurfing across the bay, with the Brazilian city of Vitória as my backdrop. Last year, I spent my mornings in Curitiba doing a course in ancient...
- Type: Article
- Author: Julie Gassmann
- Category: Work Abroad
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2014 Photo Contest Shortlisthttps://www.studyandgoabroad.org/galleries/2014-shortlist
Check out the shortlisted images from this year's photo contest. Verge Magazine, the Go Global Expo and Rough Guides are proud to present the finalists in our 2013 Travel With Purpose Photo Contest. These images were selected by a panel of professional...
- Type: Article
- Author: Verge Magazine
- Category: PhotoPro
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In Lavapiés neighborhood, considered dodgy by some, Sagan Pope discovers a wealth of world culture in her new stomping grounds. It’s been a month of adjustments. I’m finding my places to shop, places I like to go for a beer and a coffee and where to go...
- Type: Article
- Author: Sagan Pope
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Hannah takes the time to reflect on travelling alone. Before I left New Zealand I had booked a few trips around the UK ahead of time. So in my second week after arriving I jetted off to London to see the very last performance of the Royal Shakespeare’s...
- Type: Article
- Author: Hannah Pym
- Category: Study Abroad Blogs
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Liam visits the Sai Wan War Cemetary. I have to admit that while I often refer to myself as a WW2 history buff, my knowledge of what happened in the Pacific theatre is generally lacking. What I did know though, is that there was a large Canadian...
- Type: Article
- Author: Liam O'Donovan
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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After returning to Yale this Fall, Elizabeth reflects on her summer spent in the jungle. Last year, the last thing I wanted to think about were the insects living with me in the freshman dorm. However, since returning to campus for the fall semester, I...
- Type: Article
- Author: Elizabeth Tokarz
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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The top places to learn about the home of blues, country and rock. I'm a huge music fan, I spent my childhood and youth listening to anything I could get my hands on. Growing up in a small part of Australia, however, there was so little connection to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Jonathon Cusack
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Got a flair for the artistic? Want a job that allows you to travel? Look no further. You could call Bernie Quah a professional listener, and you wouldn’t be too far off the mark. Her job requires her to listen, process, analyze and then produce a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Tiffany Wang
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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What's the one thing that you shouldn't leave at home? As I write this, I am sitting in Changi Airport in Singapore, delusional from lack of sleep while also on a traveller’s high. After a year and a half without any international travel I am finally...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gillian Arfin
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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Make the most of your time abroad with Taylor's budget travel tips. Travelling on a working holiday visa and having a tight purse most always go hand-in-hand. Even if you’ve saved for months prior to your trip abroad, the whole moving from temporary...
- Type: Article
- Author: Taylor St. John
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
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The secret perks of TEFL that they don't tell you about. It was late on Tuesday evening, and I was waiting for my last student of the day to arrive. One more hour of teaching and then I would make myself a quick dinner, escape the crowded hostel...
- Type: Article
- Author: Adele Priestley
- Category: Work Abroad Blogs
