Global Nomadic Articles

Meaningful Travel - How to Be a Traveller, Not A Tourist

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Intern Abroad

Travelling abroad should be all about discovery: discovering new places, learning about new cultures and languages and above all else discovering something about yourself. To make the most of...

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The Ultimate Reward - Wild-born Baby Howler Monkeys in Belize!

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Green Travel News

Defined by Wikipedia as “the treatment and care of injured, orphaned, or sick wild animals so that they can be released back to the wild”, wildlife rehabilitation is so much more than cou...

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5 Reasons Why You Should Intern in Thailand

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Intern Abroad

Thailand is one of the best destinations in the world when it comes to finding an internship. Major international companies in almost every field have a presence in the country so there are p...

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5 Questions to Consider Before Interning Abroad

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Intern Abroad

An internship can give you opportunities to take on real responsibilities, proving that you can be an effective employee and perhaps even offering paid work at the end. Interning overseas off...

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5 Life Lessons Learnt from Living and Teaching in China

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Career Advice

Live and learn, they say. So it stands to reason that the more we live, the more we learn. I decided to live more by seeing the world. Then when the money was mostly gone and I wasn’t re...

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Top 5 International Internships for 2015

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Global Nomadic News

So what are you up to in 2015? Instead of spending your summer holidays sipping margaritas by some lazy beach bar or slogging away in a dead end summer job sorting post or collecting navel fu...

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Winner of the Royal Veterinary College essay competition!

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Global Nomadic News

Olivia won a free 1 month placement at our Manatee and Primate Rehabilitation project in Belize. Runners up Amelia Lidell and Tana Borlace won a free placement fee for any of our veterinary or wi...

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Learning and Conserving - Wildlife Expedition on Utila, Honduras

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Green Travel News

Off the northern coast of Honduras lies the Bay Islands, or Islas de la Bahia, as they are known locally, forming the southern part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System. Originally inhabited b...

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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet on International Internships

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Intern Abroad

Thousands of young and enthusiastic students apply for international internships each year and yet only few succeed. How do they make it happen? What tips and tricks do the use in order to la...

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Karibu Tanzania - Guest Blog post

By: Nora Sinokki In: Intern Abroad

Karibu Tanzania! On Friday last week I left Finland for Tanzania to volunteer at a local legal aid office. The journey took more than 24 hours, and since I didn't get much sleep on the plane, ...

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Climbing Kilimanjaro - Guest blog post

By: Nora Sinokki In: Stories From the Field

On Saturday I returned from an 8-day Kilimanjaro trek. Many of my friends have asked me how it went, so here goes... I also hope that people who are thinking about climbing Kili might find this u...

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A few words about African lifestyle - Guest blog post

By: Nora Sinokki In: Stories From the Field

One of the main reasons I love Africa is the attitude the local people have towards life. The first thing I learned about African lifestyle was the concept of "African time". It is easy to no...

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The Maasai Village - Guest blog post

By: Nora Sinokki In: Stories From the Field

One of the people working at our volunteer house is a Maasai. It is an African tribe with a very unique culture and lifestyle, and we were lucky to get the opportunity to go and visit his family....

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Re-shaping the future of sustainability – Internships in Panama

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Global Nomadic News

Sustainability has been one of the strongest growing buzzwords of the last decade and is now rightly gaining in focus across the whole spectrum of the professional field. But how does it actually...

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Living, Working and Interning in China: Big City or Countryside?

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Career Advice

From the Gobi desert in the North to the Himalayas in the South, and with the heady mix of ancient history and some of the world's most iconic new skylines in between, China is a country of great...

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How to not totally suck at being an EFL teacher

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Career Advice

Being an EFL teacher is easy, as many people will tell you. And I completely agree with them. But being a good EFL teacher is a completely different ball game. When I landed my first teaching ...

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Photo Competition – Compete in the Selfie Glolympics!

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Global Nomadic News

The art of self-portrait photography is as old as the art of photography itself, the first selfie being taken in 1839, almost 175 years ago! It wasn’t until more recent years however, that the ...

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Uncovering the past – Archaeological Internship in St Eustatius

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Global Nomadic News

Archaeology is a niche scientific discipline that has long suffered from a gross misrepresentation in mainstream media. For most people, the word brings associations of glamorous adventures in ex...

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Essay Competition with the Royal Veterinary College

By: Jeremy Freedman In: Global Nomadic News

Global Nomadic was very proud to sponsor an essay competition in conjunction with the Royal Veterinary College in London, UK. The question to answer was; "Wildlife rehabilitation poses a real eth...

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