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In my eBook “The Ultimate Study Abroad Guide”, I included a section about the realities associated with banking while you’re studying abroad. While I hope you find it helpful, I also wanted to let you know about two other options I’ve come across that can make managing your finances abroad a lot easier. Continue reading
As long as you're moving forward, you'll be fine
This is the second half of my post “10 Things I Learned (Thanks To Studying Abroad) By Age 22“. If you haven’t read that post, I would definitely recommend checking it out before you continue on to this one. I’m not a philosopher or a life coach, so I won’t claim that what I wrote down below is the standard by which you have to live. It’s just a number of thoughts that have crossed my mind as I try and use what I’ve learned from being abroad to enjoy life a little more. So here’s the better half of 10 Things I Learned (Thanks To Studying Abroad) By Age 22.
Street meat became a staple while I was traveling
I’m pretty adamant about the fact that most of what you take away from studying abroad isn’t learned in the classroom. Some of it consists of life lessons, maybe new self-confidence, personal realizations, or just general observations and opinions about the world. Although this had the possibility to be very cliche, I tried to keep as real and down to Earth as possible. Inspired by the post, 8 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was 22, here’s the first half of 10 Things I Learned By Age 22. Continue reading
It's hard to be homesick when your family comes to visit you!
The common sense way of starting a post about culture shock and homesickness would probably be to define them, but they’re different for everyone so I’m not going to try. The bad news is that they’re both pretty much inevitable when you’re abroad. The good news is that if everyone else can overcome them, there’s no reason you can’t too. Here are my experiences with homesickness and culture shock while I was studying abroad, and a bit about my discovery of what I like to call the “Aha moment”. Continue reading
It's your duty to study abroad!
This duty is a result of my coming from a particular generation, commonly referred to as Generation Y. I’m not going to go into depth about how our generation gets a bad rap; people can think and say what they want. I think our generation is great, and we are privileged to live in the time we do.
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I'm a 23 year old college grad, and during my junior year abroad in Scotland, I came to the realization that it's hard to know what you want to do in this world if you've never seen it. With that in mind, I decided to study abroad again during the 2011-12 academic year, this time in Beijing, China. Read more 