Academic Programs Abroad
Getting Started Step 10- Pack Your Bags!
Some words of advice from Study Abroad Alumni:
- Purchase a money belt or passport holder
- Photocopy all official documents (for example: passport, licences, visa)
- Take extra batteries
- Do not bring anything that you cannot afford to lose (for example: expensive jewelry or high-end electronics)
- Sunscreen/sunblock and bug spray
- Review travel guides before you depart and take them with you...maps are your best friend
- Find out about travelers checks and/or using your ATM card abroad (notify banks when taking credit/debit cards)
- Bring important phone numbers (for example: study abroad office, host school contact person)
- Get required immunizations
- Don't spend your entire trip in tourist areas...take a road less traveled
- Expand your social network, don't just hand out with other Americans
- Take ziplock bags and plastic bags
- Roll your clothes when packing
- Bring closed-toe COMFORTABLE shoes for walking...you will be walking alot!
- Be mindful of social norms and dress accordingly
- Bring drip-dry clothing
- Bring an adequate supply of underwear
- Purchase some type of rain-gear
- Keep prescriptions medications in their original containers
- Bring an adequate supply of all necessary medicine
- Take an ipod or some sort of entertainment for yourself for traveling to and from school, around the country, or around the continent!
- Pack half the clothes and twice the money
- Pack toilet paper, you don't want to have to run to the store right away and most apartments won't have any