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Back in 2011, when I began to tell friends I would be moving to Colombia to work as a volunteer teacher, I lost track of the number of people that responded with some variation of "Oh, I wish I could do that!"
It's four years later and I can count on one hand the number of friends who have actually ended up moving to another country to volunteer or work, or...
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Unlike your friends, family, and significant others, we at Go Overseas love to hear your travel stories. Especially the ones that make us laugh! So last month, we asked, and you answered with your best stories from abroad. Not just from studying abroad, but also volunteering, teaching, and just plain ol' traveling abroad!
Read on for our first ever compilation of Go...
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The United States is catching on to what the UK and Europe already know: gap years are great for young people. Who wouldn't want to travel the world, study Spanish in Peru, teach English in South Korea, participate in conservation projects in Costa Rica, or volunteer with an inner-city non-profit that is transforming lives? You're a young person considering this...
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Studying abroad in the Middle East is a guaranteed transformative experience that'll shatter any preconceived notions you had about this part of the world. Prepare yourself for unbeatable hospitality, rich history, compelling current affairs, spectacular scenery, fascinating languages, and delicious cuisine.
The Middle East is one of the most eye-opening and...
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For many recent college grads, teaching English abroad sounds like a pretty sweet setup. You want to travel and aren't ready to settle into the 9-5 life yet -- but you don't have a ton of money. By teaching English abroad, you can combine the best of both worlds, right? Errr, kind of...
Work hard and keep your priorities straight, and you'll be amazed at how...
There's a lot of news coming out of Africa these days, and it's not always good. We see images of villages stricken with illness and massive hippos angrily chasing safari boats. We might look at each other and think, "why would I want to go there? I could catch Malaria or get bitten by a deadly snake. How could I possibly stay safe on such a dangerous continent?"
As long as you are smart and...
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The minute you land in your new study abroad country, you're busy taking in the newness around you. You're smiling at the street vendors selling fruit on every corner. You're captivated by the sudden openness of the people around you. Or perhaps you're noticing a discreet segregation of genders, ages, or confused by why your host mother shies away from some of your...
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In the 2007/08 school year, 262,416 U.S. students studied abroad, according to the Institute of International Education. Yet only some 14,000 interned abroad in that same year! That number is double what it was just six years earlier, but even with that growth, it only accounts for 5% of the amount of students studying abroad.
Your friends who study abroad might come...
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Ah, college spring break. A time for spray tans, neon-colored tank tops, and drinks with names like "the Mind Eraser." A time when young men's and women's fancies turn to thoughts of sunburn.
But what if you want something more out of those sacred two weeks in spring? What if you could still have a once-in-a-lifetime trip to someplace memorable while improving...
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In the movie "Spring Breakers," a bunch of former Disney stars head to Florida and get themselves into a world of trouble -- and some intimidatingly small but very brightly-colored bikinis. While this is perhaps a slight exaggeration of the experience of most college spring breakers, there's no escaping the myth that spring break is a time to cut loose, get...
