Pre-departure Preparation Resources
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
~Susan Heller~
Useful Links
Pre-departure Preparation
- Health: Jet lag to culture shock to the common cold
- Safety: Info on security plans, tips for yours
- Risks: The good, the bad, and how to tell the difference
- Disability: Making study abroad happen for you
- Women: What you need to know abroad
- Identity: Sexual and gender expression abroad
- Food: The edible part of culture
- Return: Reading to re-enter, reinvented
For parents:
Government Resources:
- DFAIT's "Bon Voyage But...Essential Information for Canadian Travellers 2011/2012" - Must know information for Canadian's traveling abroad
- Canadian Embassies or Consulates abroad
- Travel Reports: Travel and safety info by country
- Country Insights: Country facts and cultural information by country
- Foreign Representatives in Canada: Info about student visas
- Register yourself with a Canadian Embassy Abroad: In the event there is a need to contact Canadians to offer urgent advice during a natural disaster or civil unrest, or to inform them of a family emergency at home
- Power of Attorney: Scroll to the very bottom and print tow forms - Federal (HRSDC), and your home province
