1. Stay in touch with family and friends.
2. Create a multi-media journal of your experience that you can treasure for years to come.
3. Encourage others to consider participating in an international exchange experience.
4. Expand your own learning about the people, culture, language, history, and geography of the places you visit.
5. Use you blog to get credit for an international experience through your college or university when you arrange it as an assignment through a professor/teacher.

Travel Bloggers: Perspectives and Experiences of People with Disabilities Under-represented

After an extensive internet search looking for travel bloggers with disabilities, NCDE staff found only the blogs that NCDE had requested people keep about their international experiences. We know people with disabilities are going abroad to study, work, intern, volunteer, teach and conduct research projects in increasing numbers; unfortunately, people with disabilities are not sharing their unique perspectives through blogs like their non-disabled peers.

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If you decide to keep a blog when you go abroad, fill out this online form,'Become a Blogger', and we'll link to your daily blog that you can create for free on various online sites.  Before creating your blog, read How to blog and stay safe on the Internet.