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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tfouche | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
The car swerved sharply around the corner and dipped into a pothole on the narrow, cobblestoned street. Arriving at nightfall in Rome for the beginning of our seven-month family sabbatical, I couldn’t help but wonder why anyone would choose to live ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By sonilek | Views [227] | Scholarship Entry
Within the first moments of my arrival to the protest, I am
reeling. Dozens of young Argentine activists are milling about like moths
around a speaker who is discussing something through a megaphone and bathed in
an aura of electric greenish-... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By switters86 | Views [208] | Scholarship Entry
Any adventure undertaken can be big, exciting and elemental in shaping a person and their views on life. I have found that any moment seized upon is a moment full of adventure. That idea led me to spending a year abroad in Florence, Italy, capitalizing ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By longitude | Views [224] | Scholarship Entry
Waiting for the sunrise in Bromo Mountains is one of the list from my “20 things to do before my age is 30”. This unforgettable moment happen in March 2010. Lucky me, this year Mount Bromo is close for the tourist because of an eruption. It took three ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By nomadsoul | Views [100] | Scholarship Entry
Exit strategy. Uptight vacationing dads and nefarious criminals always plan the quickest way to get out of a bad situation. When the kid vomits in the middle of Star Tours at Disney World, dad already knows the most hassle free way out of that ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By havewingswillfly | Views [373] | Scholarship Entry
There are two choices for you, I was told. One is to take the chopper ride from Guwahati, Assam and cover the 560 kilometers in an hour. The other is just about a night halt and 30 hours long. This one’s for the road, I decided. For Tawang, Arunachal ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By runningkites | Views [513] | Scholarship Entry
STILL The Sierra Nevada night is angry with rain. Drenched to the bone we reach the entrance to a fortress of adobe huts, home to the indigenous Kogi people. We've stirred the sentries. In droves they rush to meet our presence, sceptically surveying ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tasmania | Views [282] | Scholarship Entry
Tasmania, Explore the Possibilities 16th-23rd April 2010 ‘Explore the possibilities’ was the first sign that attracted my attention when I arrived at Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania. Truly a world apart not a world away, Tasmania, the only Australia’s ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By moinakdutta | Views [170] | Scholarship Entry
My biggest adventure of life happened when I was seventeen years old. I was a student of High school then and participated in a nature study tour to a place called 'Panchalingeshwar' ( in Orissa, India)which was basically a wild terrain with five distinct ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By bota | Views [452] | Scholarship Entry
MECCA OF POSSIBILITIES Touchdown, as central as it gets. My pulse was rushing, revolved by hustling, bustling, and a howling, twisting grid street system. Coloured air filled my nostrils making it yank slightly. Still, air you can see is reliable air ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By safaribumi | Views [122] | Scholarship Entry
The Orangutan’s Home Sweet Home There appeared a daydreaming orangutan at the edge of Palas Island in Rungan River, Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan. When my boat was stopped at the simple ‘dock’ to put the orangutan’s meals, he woke up from his daydreaming.... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By jewels | Views [204] | Scholarship Entry
Below the hazy orange sherbet shrouded sky scrapers, wide tree lined Shanghai side streets awaken with the creaking sounds of rusty post office style cycles & tricycles. Entrepreneurs cycle by precariously balancing their massive cardboard bounty s, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By responsible-travel | Views [4656]
I wasn’t always a sea turtle fanatic. I didn’t grow up with a pet turtle,
snorkel with green turtles in Hawaii, or even watch the Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles. I had a pretty boring
suburban US childhood without a lot of interaction with nature.... Read more >
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By catherinejulia | Views [123] | Scholarship Entry
“Come inside. The storm is coming.” The words fell out of wrinkled lips belonging to an old woman, whose shimmering grey braids were the same color as the darkening clouds that were rapidly gathering force across the sky. My boyfriend and I arrived in ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By helen_roi | Views [205] | Scholarship Entry
Culture – is an extensive concept. If you think it can be learned in National Museum of Art, or at the ancient ruins of great castles, or from an authoritative professor of social sciences, so… you’re, probably, wrong. Culture lives on the streets. In ... Read more >
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