Study Abroad
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 [...]
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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Very often the story of working or volunteering abroad actually begins in college, where the increasing popularity of study abroad programs has led to an 8% increase per year in the number of undergraduates to take a summer, semester or year overseas as part of their college experience. People choose to study abroad for a [...]