Depression is real. How do you deal?
There are really no words to describe the transformation that takes place while teaching English abroad. Living in a foreign country for an extended period of time is a life changing experience, and no matter where you go or what you wind up doing, you will learn more about yourself than you ever thought possible. But as with any important experience, there...
Bye-byeeeeeee
Your volunteer abroad program is running swimmingly! You've made some great new friends, had some incredible new experiences, and feel like you're really making an impact. Your original plan had been to stay for a month, but after two weeks you knew that wouldn't be enough time. You extended your program, and six months later you are still volunteering.
At some point, the time...
Taking a gap year means never having to shave your beard. Terrible.
Life is best lived working. The more work the better. Americans follow this life mantra: We work harder, longer, and with less vacation than nearly all our 1st world peer countries. Sadly, not every country understands the value of a good old fashioned lifetime of uninterrupted work. Our friends across the pond believe in a...
Choosing housing can be a challenge but whatever you decide on, you can't go wrong.
You've chosen a study abroad program, you've booked your tickets, and you're just starting to get incredibly excited about spending a semester or year abroad. Now that two of the major decisions are out of the way, you turn to tackling the third: housing. If you're going through a third-party provider,...
Tim Resnik giving valuable advice during his talk at IPMC 2014.
At Go Overseas, we're huge fans of Moz. We read their articles religiously. We watch their Whiteboard Friday videos every week during our company meeting, eagerly soaking up the knowledge imparted by Rand Fishkin, the Wizard of Moz (his actual title). And if Rand walked into our office tomorrow, I could easily picture our three male...
Volunteering with your family will be an amazing bonding and eye-opening experience for everyone!
Although volunteering abroad is often misconceived as an activity for the 20-something-recent-college-grad, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to help about abroad later in life, as a couple, or even -- yes -- as a family. For starters, it actively engages family members of all different...
You interned abroad... was it worth it?
I had a fourteen-hour layover in Taiwan on my way home. As soon as I stepped off the plane, I found myself a lounge and paid the costly price of admission for a chance at the free wifi and drinks. The chairs were rich leather, and I sunk into one - the first real luxury I had allowed myself since heading to intern in Vietnam months earlier. The leather...
There's a certain group of people that share an unbreakable bond. This bond is forged in the flames of adversity, molded by superhuman pressures and expectations, and cast in the image of a single, unbreakable will. I speak not of firefighters or soldiers, nor of surgeons or kings. No, I speak of yet another. I speak of people who have taught English abroad.
That's right! People who have...
A gap year will be one of the most life-shaping experiences for your child.
It's happened. Your child may still be your child, but they aren't in diapers anymore. They are individuals now, and they may not like the "right" path of life that so many of us are inclined to follow - you know - go to school, get a job, get married and live happily ever after a few towns over from you. Hate to break...
There are numerous challenges and obstacles that you encounter when you make the brave and noble decision to volunteer abroad. Chronologically smack dab in the middle of those concerns is what should you bring on your journey? This can vary immensely depending on the location you pick, how long you're going to stay there, and what kind of project you work on. However, there is a fairly...
