Asia Exchange

Something new just dropped!! Asia Exchange now offers fully supported international internship programs across North America, Europe and Asia 🌍

New York, Lisbon, Singapore, Dublin and more, with paid placements available for 4 to 6 month programs, full CV and interview support and individual matching to your profile and goals!

This is the thing that makes your CV actually stand out after graduation and we are so excited to finally offer it!!

Find out everything at the link in bio 👆

Tag the friend you made on your semester abroad 🌍

And if you haven’t gone yet, keep reading because this is exactly what’s waiting for you 👉

There is no rational explanation for it and yet every single person who has studied abroad knows exactly what this feels like!! When you are dropped into an unfamiliar place with nothing pre-set, no existing group to fall back on and no prior version of yourself that people have already decided on, connections happen at a completely different speed 👯‍♀️

The people you met in one semester somehow ended up being the ones you stay in touch with across time zones for years! France, Germany, Australia, South Korea, Brazil, all in the same group chat, all from the same semester. That does not happen at home without a lot of deliberate effort and abroad it just happens naturally 🌏

🔎Research published in 2024 found that shared novel experiences strengthen emotional bonding by activating reward systems in the brain! In other words, getting lost in a new city together, figuring out a foreign transit system, stumbling into a night market by accident, all of it feels good and you end up associating that feeling with the people you were with 💫

Nobody is guarded in the first week abroad!! Everyone is a little lost, everyone is equally new and conversations that would normally take months to arrive at happen within days.

That specific kind of homesickness after coming back is something nobody prepares you for!! Not missing home exactly, more like missing a version of your daily life that no longer exists. The particular rhythm of the mornings, a group chat that went quiet, the people who made a specific place feel like yours 💕

Most students who go abroad say making friends was what surprised them most about the whole experience!! The city was incredible, the food was unforgettable, but the people were what they never fully anticipated.

Ready to find yours? Link in bio 🔗

Honestly the chicest thing you can do in your 20s 🌍 Find your program at the link in bio 👆

One semester at Siam University in Bangkok and somehow I ended up in five countries 🌍

This is what studying abroad in Southeast Asia actually looks like and Thailand was just the beginning!! Swipe through to see everywhere I went 👉

When your base is Bangkok, it’s very easy to visit the whole country!! Phuket for the beaches, Krabi for the limestone cliffs and turquoise water, Ko Phi Phi because it looks exactly like the photos and somehow even better in person, Ko Lanta for a slower pace, Ko Samui and Ko Phangan for island life at its best, Surat Thani as your gateway south, Chiang Mai for the temples and the night markets, and Chiang Rai and the Golden Triangle for something completely different 🌴🇹🇭

All of this is reachable by budget flight, overnight train or bus from Bangkok 🛺

Singapore is unlike anywhere else and I mean that in the best possible way!! Gardens by the Bay, Hawker centres with the best food at the lowest prices, Marina Bay at night, and yes Universal Studios because why not 🎢🇸🇬

One of the cleanest, most organised and most genuinely fascinating cities in Asia and just a short flight from Bangkok. Ticked off in one trip and already want to go back!!

Angkor Wat at sunrise is one of those things that genuinely doesn’t feel real until you’re standing in front of it 🌅

One of the most extraordinary archaeological sites in the world, hidden in the jungle, and somehow even more breathtaking in person than in every photo you’ve ever seen of it!!

Kuala Lumpur completely caught me off guard!! The Petronas Towers at night, the street food scene that rivals Bangkok, the mix of cultures and cuisines all living side by side in one city 🇲🇾

A few hours by budget flight from Bangkok and suddenly you’re in a completely different world. That’s the thing about being based in Southeast Asia, every weekend is an option ✈️

Bali was a whole world on its own! Rice terraces in Ubud, temple ceremonies at sunset, black sand beaches in the north and street food everywhere that cost almost nothing. The kind of island where you think you’ve seen it all and then turn a corner and find something even more stunning 🌺

All of this on a weekend trip fro