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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By piphill | Views [154] | Scholarship Entry
My two friends and I had decided to have a ten day stint in Bali. Upon arrival at Denpasar airport, we were whisk away by taxi to our hotel in Kuta. We checked in and met for a drink on the beach. Soon we were surrounded by people selling just about ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By bipasha | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
Last year when the northern hemisphere was slowly turning away from the sun and making its way towards winter, I found myself in a summer place called Melbourne. For someone like me, who loves to walk, it was ideal for long hikes around the city, discovering ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By prashantd | Views [193] | Scholarship Entry
First thing that sprang into my mind when my friend told me that she had received a scholarship from a university in Spain was Spanish omelet. Not that I know nothing more about Spain but it was more because in the time when food has become more than ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By ikeniken | Views [125] | Scholarship Entry
At first, I always thinking that I am the only main actor in life. I don’t need anyone in my life because I knew that I'm strong enough to face everything in this world. Until i travelled in Sempu island. Sempu is a small island located in south of Java ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By melodythomas | Views [125] | Scholarship Entry
It was our first overseas adventure – three months in Southeast Asia, the U.S. and Europe. We’d been told it’s better to spend more time in fewer places, but we weren’t concerned with that. This trip was about discovering what kinds of travellers we were.... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By gabse | Views [299] | Scholarship Entry
“Juanita! Fry the bananas!” This was my introduction to Peru. Sitting round the kitchen table with an extended family in Urubamba, a small town in the Sacred Valley about an hour from the Andean city of Cusco. When asked what Peruvian food we’d enjoyed, ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By untamed-vagabond | Views [379] | Scholarship Entry
The bearer brought in 2 bowls and a large plate with something that looked like pieces of white frost cake. He placed them on the table, thanked and walked out. It was probably the sensual aroma that travelled, or just me that I jumped off the chair, ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By nature_and_society | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry
Incredible vacation .... hi my name is paramita sari dewi, I am a student majoring in biological science at a university in Indonesia ... I really like the holiday associated with nature and culture of a country ... for me vacation is a very fun and refreshing ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By scottman | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
It was early Sunday morning outside the diamond mining town of Kimberley South Africa that I realized, for the first time since arriving, something so obvious that I was genuinely taken aback. I was not a black South African. I did not live through Apartheid.... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By mackenzie | Views [420] | Scholarship Entry
Food is the gateway to a culture. Especially Indian culture. I had always hated Indian food as a child, I'm not even sure why, perhaps I hadn't eaten anything proper, but everything changed one day. It was a chilly-sunny spring sunday. My mother told ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By limoncellodicorleone | Views [489] | Scholarship Entry
Sitting in an ancient, peat-smoked pub in Scotland, I blink and stare at the thing placed in front of me. I have been out and about all afternoon, trudging through the glacial valley of Glencoe as it was illuminated by a warm and golden evening sun. Being ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By susaniris | Views [285] | Scholarship Entry
Past beach aerobics, reddening sunbathers, and waiters with trays of eye-openers, the all-inclusive hotel universe just ... ended. Raked sand gave way to fronds and flotsam. Intrigued, I climbed over the pier, picked my way round twisted trees, and ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By margaretmontet | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
There were olive trees, acres and acres of them, surrounding the train tracks as we travelled from Madrid to Granada feasting on jamon Serrano sandwiches and cheese. It was my first trip to Europe, and I didn’t know much about Spain. I was there to speak ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By anamia | Views [252] | Scholarship Entry
Upon exiting the JAL plane and walking toward passport control, I have my first encounter with Japanese signs in form of a signboard featuring the word “Okaerinasai” (Welcome home) at the entrance hall. Although I had plenty of time on the plane to accustom ... Read more >
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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By businessbackpacker | Views [404] | Scholarship Entry
The sirens are sounding, and text messages are coming in one after another reading: “Tsunami Warning Get To Higher Ground NOW!” The earthquake I felt twenty minutes ago seems like nothing compared to the threat of a massive wall of water moving this ... Read more >
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