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Transitions Abroad Magazine May/June 1998 Volume XXI, No. 6

Feature

Lessons of the Mayans
In text and photographs, Helen M Stummer evokes her week among the Mayan villagers of Comalapa, Guatemala. In the courage and dignity of the Mayans, she discovers a lesson for us all.

Mix Language Learning with Ecotravel
With over 60 language schools, Quito is a premier city in which to learn Spanish. It also offers mountain and jungle adventures.

Language Program Directory
From Africa to Sweden, Santiago to St. Petersburg, all the places to go for full immersion Language Learning.

Study Abroad Key Resources
Country-specific and worldwide guides to study opportunities; Key internet sites for researching study opportunities; Funding Sources; Key publishers and organizations.

Departments

Information Exchange

Travel News to Use

Worldwide Travel Bargains

  • Iceland: Watercolor in Motion
  • Europe: New Travel Passes
  • France: Renting a Boat
  • Guatemala: Untouched Village
  • Nepal: Summer in Kathmandu

Back Door Travel

Europe: Avoiding Travel Scams

Learning Traveler

Birds and Belugas in Canada

Working Traveler

Teaching Certification Courses
U.K Conservation Holidays
Passport to European Jobs

Living Abroad

  • Insurance: Are You Covered?
  • Mexico: Outside, Looking In

Responsible Travel

Be a Robin Hood of Ecotourism

Abroad in Books

On the Rails in Europe

Education Abroad

Study Abroad Adviser:
Measuring the Effects of Study Abroad

Point:Counterpoint:
What We Need to Know about Study Abroad

Teen Study Abroad:
Summer Opportunities

Student to Student:
Working in Britain

Rotary Scholarships: The Best Kept Secret True to its motto; "Service Above Self," the Rotary offers great support for study abroad but is modest about advertising it. Clever students will take notice.

Program News & Notes

Classifieds

Advertiser Index

Endpage

From the Publisher

Welcome to the 21st anniversary issue of Transitions Abroad. When I put the first issue together in May 1977 I had in mind a source of practical, factual information for travelers like myself — people whose purpose in travel is to understand and learn from the culture and natural history of the places they visit, and not to alter either.

"Transitions" means changes, movement from one place to another. But the important and exciting changes that occur when we travel are those that take place in our minds — when we let go of our prepackaged ideas and prejudices and embrace the far richer experience of meeting and accepting new people, places, and cultures on their own terms.

Unlike other travel magazines, we have information for everyone — from teenage travelers, to seniors, to independent-minded travelers of every age and interest who travel for more than just the sites (of the shopping).

We hope you find the details you need to do it your way — and there are lots of details: in the magazine, on our huge website, in our newsletter, in our special resource guides, in the Alternative Travel Directory, in Work Abroad, and in the 21 years' worth of back issues available from our database.

Next time: Our big annual Overseas Travel Planner in which the editors select, by country, the best travel information — guidebooks, organizations, websites, and individual contacts — for every kind of traveler.

If you can't wait, contact us, Happy Transitions!

—Dr. Clay A. Hubbs

Editor and Publisher
Dr. Clay A. Hubbs

Managing Editor
David Cline

International Education Editors
William Nolting, William Hoffa, Ruth Sylte

Contributing Editors
Dianne Brause (Socially Responsible Travel)
Susan Griffith (Work)
Deborah McLaren (Ecotourism)
Karl Newmann (Traveling Healthy)
William Nolting (Work)
Terry Redding (Independent Travel)
Robert Sanborn (International Careers)
Rick Steves (Budget Travel)
Susan Sygall (Disability Travel)
Kathy Widing (Travel Books)

Cover
Natalie Stulz, the Island of Chiloe, Chile.




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