If you speak with enough people who have lived and worked abroad, they generally fall into two basic categories: planners and drifters. While I’ve always been partial to planning myself, there isn’t necessarily a right way to do it – people can be equally successful having set-up everything in advance, as they can be arriving [...]
If you have any interest in the medical field, or working with children with special needs, but you don’t quite have the experience for a full-time, paid opportunity abroad, you should consider volunteering with Greenheart Travel. A division of Center for Cultural Interchange, Greenhart travel has been around since 1985. The focus of the trips [...]
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The language barrier can be the most scary (and exciting!) part of accepting a position abroad. Whether or not your are actually working in your mother tongue, having a working knowledge of your host country’s language is not only useful, but is also a sign of respect. Learning a new language can also satisfy curiosity, [...]
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