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How to: Study abroad
January 26, 2019By: Melanie Hiepler, Peak Associate Question: Should you spend a semester or more studying abroad? Answer: Why is that even a question? Yes! Get out there, have some adventures, find your travel feet, and diversify your academic resume. Travel builds character, and goodness knows most of us could do with a little extra character. A few summers ago, I spent a semester at Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic’s capital. I tacked on some solo travel to either end of my semester, made a grand adventure out of it, and earned my backpacking stripes along the way. Three years later, it’s still my…
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Hamish and Jo’s adventures in France Part 3: Adulthood is harder in France
November 28, 2018By: Hamish Clinton and Jozsef Varga Welcome back to another episode of “Jo and Hamish’s life in Menton, the most South-Eastern town in all of France.” For those of you reading this column for the very first time, here is…
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Hamish and Jo’s adventures in France: Still no schoolwork, but a new continent!
November 2, 2018By: Hamish Clinton and Jozsef Varga Much has changed since our last update. For starters, we have not cut our hair in several months. In fact, it seems we have embraced the nomadic ways of expert travellers by growing it…
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Long story short: When life gives you strangers, make puns
October 30, 2018By: Melanie Hiepler Making friends takes effort — that’s one of the first life lessons I learned on exchange a few summers ago. I was in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, for Charles University's Central and Eastern…
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Hamish and Jo’s Adventures in France: Welcome to Menton
October 10, 2018By: Hamish Clinton and Jozsef Varga Imagine heavily armed French border patrol officers chasing you off a train, demanding that you show them your papers . . . Well, we don’t have to! Because that was us only a handful of…
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Homesickness? We’ve all been there.
September 9, 2018By: Tessa Earnshaw, Michelle Gomez, Gabrielle McLaren, and Winona Young When my parents helped me move into residence, I didn’t want them to leave. I talked to them every day, but that only made me miss them more. Going home…
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From studying politics to living it: my study abroad experience
January 22, 2018By: Michelle Gomez My undergrad at SFU was pretty average, until I studied abroad in a country that was culturally and politically unravelling. Over the last four months, that’s exactly what’s been happening in the region of Catalonia, which has…
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Down and out during Study Abroad
January 30, 2017[dropcap]N[/dropcap]ot all students going on exchange are prepared for the road ahead. After stumbling into SFU’s Study Abroad program, it wasn't long until I knew I wanted to go on exchange and get the study abroad experience, clichés and all.…
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