For 25 years, SWAP has assisted over 30,000 Canadian students in organizing their travel and work experience abroad. You can just go and work. Basically the SWAP program fixes up your visa for you, your work visa. They will set up the job for you. SWAP offers an orientation for students once they arrive at their destination, providing them with information on how to apply for the local equivalent of a Canadian Social Insurance Number, how to open a bank account, where to find a good place to live and how to get insurance.
Most people find it a life-altering experience.
Over the hills and far away Connors has a few other suggestions for students who are planning to travel. If you going anywhere, say, to the Dominican, always check for visas, passport and vaccinations, always. Because polio was not a big thing that you needed down in the Dominican, but this year it is. Everything changes from month to month, almost from day to day. For instance Europe right now with the hoof and mouth disease.