Article Archive | Native Foreigner

Q&A — Traveler’s Gift Vacations

Sarah Wauterlek and Tania Martin started The Traveler’s Gift, a travel company that pairs luxury with purpose-filled excursions. Learn more about their story and what inspired them. NF: Describe your first international travel experience. TANIA: I’m originally from Cuba and moved to the U.S. when I was young, so...

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Q&A — Runaway Bridesmaids

Holly Corbett, co-author of the book The Lost Girls, recently traded her travel gear for a bridesmaid dress and running shoes. Read more to find out why. NF: What was your first international travel experience? HOLLY: My first international travel experience was Semester at Sea. I was a senior...

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Q&A – Oimei

Aimi Duong’s study abroad experience in thailand empowered her to stray from her original goals and use her newfound skills and passions to begin her own venture. NF: You left California in August 2010 with the intention of studying abroad in Thailand for five months. That eventually turned into...

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French Film: A Semester in France

By Rachel Jones I decided to study abroad in France during the spring semester of 2012. I’m a theatre major with a minor in French, which sounds like an odd combination. I will admit, it is. After taking a French class my freshman year, I chose to minor in French....

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Life With Two Families

By Ellen Rhudy When I first thought of applying to the Peace Corps, and in the years that followed, I had a string of reasons why I couldn’t hack it as a volunteer. I had never been very good at learning languages and although I loved working with students, I...

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The Art of Returning

By Kat Koch In the Spring of 2009 I took my first ever solo trip outside of the United States. Ireland had been a dream destination of mine since age five or so. As you can imagine, there was a lot of excitement around this trip. Every time I told...

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Living and Teaching in Colombia

By Mike Hower When I first told people that I wasgoing to move to Colombia for a year, they thought I was out of my mind. Colombia — cocaine; guerillas; Pablo Escobar; gringos locked in cages in the jungle; cocaine. As if that weren’t bad enough, at a lumbering six...

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India Travel: Things I Wish I Had Known (Part II)

By Heather Morton Part 2: Travel truths as i learned them… The saying, “Things never are as they appear to be,” holds a lot of truth while traveling in India. It was not just the first lesson I was taught, but also one I was constantly trying to remember. Having...

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Determined Like a Dominican

By Joseph Strzempko “Policía no me mata!” we cried, (Spanish for “Police don’t kill me”), as we marched though the streets of Santiago thronged with dozens of police officers on either side. Our chant was not imploring but rather challenging. The Estudiantes de Apoyo (support students) who had organized the...

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One Woman, One Journey

By Cathy Ly If I can overcome being wrongfully detained for two full days in Manchester, navigate my way to a couch host’s off-the-grid cottage in the snowy and mountainous outskirts of Prague while successfully warding off a potential sexual predator and, overall, fight against all the negative criticism I...

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