Globacreating

Building a Global Network

Are you the friend people come to asking

Do you have any friends in Guam? I’m going out there in a few weeks.

Can you give my friend some advice? He is going to Colombia for the first time.

Havana Mania and the Ruin of Cuba

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Globalcreating: Musings on Blendability

When we live, work and create in a land, we become subject to its influence- so in a way globalcreating and immersing and assimilating can never be fully pulled apart. It teaches you that the black and white way of dealing with the world, the facts you learned…

Lindsey the Fighter

I first met Lindsey during Songkran in 2016. We appeared to be the only people over thirty in the Gecko Bar. Immediately hitting it off, we bonded over a love of Muay Thai and disdain for the drunken shenanigans of the twenty-somethings around us. A Canadian, in this incarnation she was living…

Working in Adventure Tourism

Some people want to lay on the beach or hit the hottest shopping districts on their vacation and there sure are tours for them but what about the adventure junkie who wants to zip line through the Amazon or ride the Tour de France route? If the latter sounds more like your idea…

Khaolak Suthawan

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Insights from an Educator Abroad

Twenty years ago, John White gave me my first Portuguese language book — I was headed to Brazil and didn’t speak a word. Some of the early advice he shared with me as I set off for my study abroad, he repeated in our interview, “Travel freely, do a bit of research and…

Angola: Land of Paradox

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Rio de Janeiro: An Amerioca’s Fave Local Spots

[one_half]Brazil will always be close to my heart. My second home for an entire decade of my life, to the extent my Brazilian friends jokingly referred to me as “Amerioca”. A carioca is a resident of Rio de Janeiro like a Bostonian is to Boston…