This document provides helpful tips for staying safe while studying abroad. It recommends knowing your environment, blending into the local culture, traveling in groups, making photocopies of important documents, being aware of your belongings, avoiding strangers, researching the area, having emergency contact numbers but keeping self defense tools private, and taking time to visit landmarks with friends before classes start. The tips are intended to help navigate new experiences abroad safely.

2. Helpful Tips While Studying Abroad
 Overseas education brings with it loads of new
experiences and insights. It opens up a whole new and
brave world for us. With new emotional distinctions
and variety of events happening every now and then,
moving forward without a road map or direction may
only lead to ours being lost twice as fast. The present
article is intended to give you a roadmap (a safety
checklist), a system with which you can safely navigate
amidst the chaos of events in this permanent white-
water world, one in which everything is changing at an
accelerating pace. These helpful tips while studying
abroad will keep you safe!

3. Know Your Environment
 Times have changed. With increasing crime rates
around the world, keeping a close observation of your
surrounding environment is an absolute must. Trying
out different routes during daytime and leisure hours
will give you the confidence to find ways to your room
in more than one way.

4. Don’t Stand Out : Blend In
 While studying abroad, it’s good to blend in with the
culture of that country. There are some serious
advantages to it. First, you will be accepted more easily
by the community out there, and second, you will
prevent yourself from a vulnerable situation like
cheating and criminal activities.

5. Travel In Groups
 Avoid going out alone, as much as you can. In case of
going alone, to maintain a list of acquaintances you
may during times of need. It is also good to inform
someone whenever you go out alone.

6. Photocopy Important Document
 Always maintain duplicate copies of your passport,
aeroplane tickets, health insurance card, driver license,
student ID to avoid landing in much trouble just in
case you lose it or is stolen. Keep them all in a safe
place other than that of original documents. Maintain
a password protected file record of important
information.

7. Mind Your Own Baggage
 One should stay observant to the surroundings and
environment. Nothing shall be taken for granted no
matter what. You should take full responsibility of
carrying your baggage before departure, on the
journey, and on entering the foreign land. Don’t make
friends with strangers at the airport or during travel
around the city for the first time.

8. Avoid Impressionists & PUAs
 Ever watched the movie, Taken, watch it. Foreign
countries are not free of crimes. Far from it, in fact,
crimes in there are even more structured and much
better organized. Just to save on few bucks don’t make
friends with any tom-dick-harry you may possibly
meet on the streets. Chances are they are thugs out to
steal something from you or may cause you to land in
serious troubles. Avoid blind optimism thinking that
you are different. You aren’t any less vulnerable to ill-
acts than the rest. It’s better to be sceptical than being
friendly to strangers.

9. Research The Area
 Match and mark important places and landmarks on
the local map. Keep one on the mobile and one as a
hard copy. Maintain a record of bus number on
specific routes, train timings and stations, and eating
joints.

10. Something Just Are Best Kept Secret
 Having police control room number on speed dial,
some tools for defence, survival tactics are best kept
closely under wraps. Keep your iron hands under velvet
gloves. These few bare essentials are of lasting value
during times of crisis.

11. Have Some Fun Too
 Travel to landmark sites with friends and groups.
Whichever country you will pursue your study from;
it’s good to cover the most important destinations
before the start of the course program, so you are able
to have fun in your leisure time. One of your studies
starts you may not find much time and space to visit
them again.
Source:-
https://globalopportunitiesweb.wordpress.com/2018/07
/21/study-abroad-safety-great-destinations-helpful-tips/