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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By travell-iv-ing | Views [303] | Scholarship Entry
As the first drops of rain fell, I looked up at the protruding ledge. The same ledge that paved the way out and effortlessly poured half the Pilbara’s rainfall over my head. As I analysed my situation I couldn't help but think “how did I end up here”? ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By ozdiary | Views [186] | Scholarship Entry
I will never forget the day that I arrived in Sydney, the city that would have begun the most beautiful experience of my life and that would have changed it forever. After a few days I have understood the the Australia and Australians belong to a special ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By patches_mcgee | Views [180] | Scholarship Entry
I’m floating in warm, opaque blue water; snow is falling on my face; strong, viking hands are massaging my back from below. It looks like another planet, it feels like a dream but I’m awake in a heaven on Earth known as the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. This ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By mirna | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By sylviemcnab | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry
At first glance, you may think that you have landed on the moon or perhaps that you have entered the film set of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi. In fact, you have arrived in Outback Australia, a place where the term ‘wide open space’ is taken to a whole new ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By ellenransley | Views [143] | Scholarship Entry
It’s a gloomy Monday afternoon in Paris, and I am lost. It hadn’t been my intention to leave the hotel and get lost within five minutes, but that was all it took, one wrong turn and I was unexpectedly exploring. Rather than panic, I embraced it. My ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By aussieabroad | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
After traveling 18 hours by plane and another 7 hours by minibus, I was so happy to arrive in St Lucia, South Africa. It was 35 degrees and 90% humidity. We were tired, hungry and wanted a shower. There was no hot water at our hostel, monkeys running ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By reef | Views [96] | Scholarship Entry
I’ll never forget the day I met the Great Barrier Reef, the biggest coral reef in the world. A habitat of thousands of kilometres with living creatures, breathing, reproducing, constructing a world under the water is something that you can say. But you ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By kavlar | Views [127] | Scholarship Entry
Blinking up into the wan darkness, I realised with mild distaste that this was the first time I had really seen the stars. Lying in the dense form of my swag in the anonymity of the outback, I hadn’t appreciated the encroachment of light on our ability ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By fikriadventure | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
It was about ten years ago, when my dad got scholarship to took his post-graduate study in Adelaide , South Australia . As a little boy i was at that time, it has been a wonderful time for me in that city. Previously , city i was came were a city of a ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By redrover | Views [116] | Scholarship Entry
Dear Homework, This is going to be hard for me, so difficult in fact that I couldn't face you in person. This is why you are reading this letter. You have been there for me, teaching me everything that I know... but I feel like we are just two parallel ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By ellibelle | Views [273] | Scholarship Entry
Prologue: I lay awake one night, alone with my thoughts and totally caught up in the raw emotion of happy and sad – fascinated, excited and equally daunted by life. I wonder how I came to be in such a unique part of the world and I wonder why. I question ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By chapter73 | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry
Rain is a funny thing. The annual rainfall for the city of Sydney is roughly 128 mm, which for a city of 25 square km isn’t too shabby when taken into consideration. What was shabby I thought was the first time we go to Sydney was that it had all decided ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By ktlnlange | Views [99] | Scholarship Entry
"How did I end up here?" I think as I tap my pen on the desk's edge. It is only an hour into my day and I am downtrodden by the fact that I have not seen sunlight. This is my life. Awake before the winter sun, I left home while it was still dark and will ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By joseph_diskett | Views [180] | Scholarship Entry
Being a Brit growing up on that little island, Steve Irwin, Olivia Newton-John and Crocodile Dundee were my only insight into Australia. So you can imagine my surprise when I learned that my entire family would be immigrating to this strange, far-off ... Read more >
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