Cultural Embrace Travel Tidbits

It’s peak busy season in the office as we’re preparing for summer departures; plus I’ve picked up additional workload to organize our popular Asia and Latin America placements due to a ...

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Cultural Embrace is launching a new Childcare Program in Turkey. I anticipate that several prospective Au Pairs might look at Turkey the same way my mother did when I invited her on a trip there ...

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Sorry its been so long, I have been very distracted as of late. My computer broke, I lost friends, I gained friends, I went swimming… I smell something burning. Moving on, last week was prett...

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I am still getting goosebumps reflecting and re-reading the text from Obama’s public statement that Osama Bin Laden was killed… “On September 11, 2001, in our time of grief, the American ...

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       EVER SINCE VISITING MEXICO A YEAR AGO, I’VE HAD THE ITCH TO GO BACK TO LATIN AMERICA, THIS TIME, WITH A PURPOSE. I LOOKED INTO STUDYING ABROAD, AND EVERYTHING RELATED. FINANCIAL ...

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Although I had A-Ha! moments coming out of my ears the first time I traveled abroad alone, there’s one in particular that keeps me motivated to go after even my “wildest” dreams. I�...

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My A-ha! moment was definitely in the middle of last semester. I was feeling homesick....for China? I then expressed my need to travel back here to my parents. I figured it would be a great i...

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Traveling through eighty countries has provided me with plenty of A-Ha! travel moments. But undoubtedly, my time teaching English in China taught me many of life’s little lessons. Besides t...

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My absolutely, unequivocally, beloved readers, So sorry its been such a long time. First,  I got extremely side-tracked. Then my computer decided we would not be friends for a few days (we have...

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So its Friday and we all know what that means, its time to make the second post of the week. On Wednesday, April took me out for my Chinese lesson, it was not huge, we just went for a nice littl...

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Right, let’s just get straight to it and talk about Queenstown, one of my favorite places in New Zealand so far.  The first official day there dawned bright and early.  After having to get ...

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For me, traveling to Africa on a volunteer service trip was something I dreamt about for years.  But due to limited resources, time and money, I didn’t think it would ever happen. However,...

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I knew I needed to see the world and I love travelling. I fell in love with China especailly after I had studied abroad for a semester with Seattle Pacific University (SPU). Now, my husband a...

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I decided on sunday morning to go to Yangshuo.  I kinda went to yangshuo out of necessity but I definitely was excited to head back to my old stomping grounds!  Because of the holiday the train...

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I have been living in Guatemala for 3 months now and have observed a great many things. Some differences are quite obvious and others more subtle. It has been interesting to try and get deep eno...

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I have read dozens of books, blogs, and Oprah magazine articles on this subject; watched movies and documentaries addressing this theme; taken workshops at spiritual retreat centers to discov...

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My study abroad experience significantly shaped my life, and the lyrics from my favorite singer perfectly describe my experience--“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tightly clos...

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Guanajuato Admit it, you're a Tourist. Last summer I travelled through Mexico. My plane landed in Leon, then traveled to Guanajuato, San Miguel, Bernal, and Queretaro. As my first time ever...

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I'm a business major at The University of Texas preparing to graduate in May. When I started my last year at UT, I was ready to get my senior year over with and then rock it in the corporate ...

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As our plane descended into Charles de Gaulle airport, panic set in. I had studied French daily for the past three years, and in my Oklahoma City middle school classroom, I was a whiz. Yet here...

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My last day in Abel Tasman started out pretty sweet – with hang gliding!  Yup, I’ve done that now, too. We had the option of doing that the evening that we first arrived as well, but I was...

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The first quarter of 2011 is finished and April is here--wow! Doesn't it seem like the Earth rotates faster these days--making weeks, months and years fly by? I watch my grade school aged niec...

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Today Zach, the Manager of WWB orphanage, and I went hunting for a dairy cow. Let me explain why. I raised money for the trip from my family, friends and church group (see list of donors at th...

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First things first: Abel Tasman is the Cancun of New Zealand. It’s hard to describe just how clear or blue the water there is because the photos just don’t do the place justice.  You just ha...

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Wow, a lot has happened since Wellington.  I really don’t even know how to start this next post because just thinking of all the things I have to catch up is giving me a bit of a headache. �...

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