Archive for the ‘Volunteer, Study & Work Abroad’ category
A 5 Step Guide to Spending this Season on the Slopes…Your Winter Dream Job Awaits!
The key to finding yourself this season’s winter dream job is to research and apply now! Read our step by step guide to getting paid, laid, and spending your winter season on the slopes… Picture this for a moment: You wake up in your cozy cabin, dazed from last night’s hot tub party with sexy [...]
Explore a Jungle, Ski the World, Help People in Need with Gap Force!
Taking a Gap Year is the buzz around Europe. What’s all the noise about? Gap Year is a year (or some increment of time) a person takes off to travel before going to college, into a career or in between jobs. This time off is Europe’s answer to riding out the college/work unfriendly times of [...]
Wildlife Volunteer Programs: Work with Really Freakin’ Cute Baby Animals NOW!
Let’s be honest with ourselves for a minute: we all love animals (sometimes more than humans) and when they get hurt (especially baby ones) we get choked up inside. Something about little furry baby animals brings out our emotional side. You can’t avoid getting a fuzzy, warm feeling when looking at this koala for instance. [...]
6 Volunteer Programs to Help go the Extra GREEN Mile
When bringing your own bag to the supermarket, sorting your plastics and biking to work isn’t enough, green volunteering is your answer to making a real eco-difference. As much as we are doing our part in contributing to world conservation efforts, so much more is out there. Step it up by doing just a little [...]
What the F*ck is Wwoofing?
Wwoofing – Not barking but World Wide Opportunities On Organic Farms-ing. What’s the deally? This network was developed to link volunteers to organic farms with available volunteer opportunities. You volunteer on an international farm for an agreed amount of hours and they feed and house you. Pretty fair deal. Nothing extravagant here but given the [...]
What is a College Degree Worth these Days? The Case for a U.S. Gap Year Campaign…
The American dream, rags to riches, is an alluring thought. Our society has constructed a fool-proof plan to get you from American dream to American reality: college. Get your degree and you will always have enough to pay your mortgage, take family vacations and finance that spacious, yet stylish, minivan you’ve always wanted. How about [...]
How to Get a Honduran to the World Cup
Futbol (as in soccer-not to be confused with sweaty, 350 plus pound player, American tackle handball), is one of the only sports that still holds world competitions (Canada playing in the World Series doesn’t count). We are talking about the World Cup of course. This year’s competition takes place between June 11th and July 11th [...]
Volunteer Madagascar: Saving Lemurs vs. the Fossa…Whose side are you on?
Madagascar… Mostly known from the Pixar movie by the same title, Madagascar is an insanely beautiful African island that is home to some of the wildest animals and most interesting tribal people (to illustrate: this is a statute on a tomb). Two animals, the lemur and the fossa, are ONLY found in Madagascar and their numbers [...]
Help Tibet…It’s cooler than wearing a t-shirt!
You may sympathize with those signs and banners that read “Free Tibet”; maybe you even went out and bought the T-shirt. As much as we commend your attempts to spread the word (and be fashionable), here is a chance for you to actually do something to help Tibetans living in exile: A brief history: Tibet [...]
