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Sun, 13 Mar 2011 | By temie | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
It is very early morning in Kano city. The dawn peeps in and drives away the yellow skies of dusk that covered Kano through the night. I am in the ancient city-state that seats the great Emir of Kano. The city is also known as the centre of command for ... Read more >
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Sun, 13 Mar 2011 | By davestalesthe | Views [247] | Scholarship Entry
Madras Dramas Am I the last passenger to exit Madras airport, delayed, as seems to be customary, by additional forms most necessary to complete? It doesn't matter. On this first visit I quickly learn, time is a blurry medium in India. As the heavy humid ... Read more >
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Sun, 13 Mar 2011 | By traveller24 | Views [223] | Scholarship Entry
Author, Louis L’amour once wrote: ‘too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, but rarely of what they had seen’. Travellers will often get caught up in the flurry of the undiscovered; high on the drug of what is still yet to be seen.... Read more >
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Sun, 13 Mar 2011 | By taniadl | Views [303] | Scholarship Entry
The setting: Champs Elysees in Paris, France. The scene: a normal South African girl is trying to absorb France at its snobbiest, and therefore its best. Already feeling slightly frumpy just because I’m not French, I spotted a woman walking in the opposite ... Read more >
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Sat, 12 Mar 2011 | By theglow | Views [273] | Scholarship Entry
I love the holidays, small children, adults and even parents would like a holiday. For me the holidays are always fun. I feel happy if I can visit beautiful places that have a million could feel the charm and beauty of the earth that has been created ... Read more >
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 | By rasyd | Views [1081] | Comments [8] | Scholarship Entry
I imagine if I had lost somewhere I had never seen before. What should I do first? First of all I would look for someone to ask. Since there is no place in this world an unoccupied - if you do not believe please check your own. If no one else, ... Read more >
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 | By travelgirl | Views [312] | Scholarship Entry
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 | By camdool | Views [286] | Scholarship Entry
“…Now, for good luck, cast an old shoe after me” -Proverb It is 3am, it is pitch black. I am completely alone, in a forest, in the middle of Northern Spain. I can’t see the Camino de Santiago trail markers. I am torchless and scared. Sunlight ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By ferrerlane | Views [333] | Scholarship Entry
They came from every dark outlet. Hundreds of men in white gowns, accompanied with the roaring sound of their thousand running footsteps. The narrow streets overflowed, like blood running through veins. They sprinted toward a mosque, topped with a gold ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By robertisenberg | Views [361] | Scholarship Entry
Walking the Bay of Fundy By Robert Isenberg We set up our tents in the fog. Nova Scotia is famous for its gray weather, and mist subsumed the campground. On a clear day, we might see the rocky beach and grassy marshlands, but instead everything was ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By anita | Views [602] | Scholarship Entry
Humble Ode to my Beloved Chicken Buses The current exchange rate is 7.797 Guatemalan Quetzales to 1 US Dollar, putting my 12-Quetzales chicken-bus ride from my home in Comalapa to the bustling Guatemala City at just over $1.50. In the two hours it takes ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By spirit | Views [302] | Scholarship Entry
Six countries. Twelve months. One backpack. By Caroline O’Driscoll As much as everyone felt the need to advise and direct me on my big adventure I had other ideas. I left Ireland on a rainy October morning with a couple of grand in the bank, saved up ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By stillupatnight | Views [332] | Scholarship Entry
Two weeks into my Big Adventure to independently backpack through Southeast Asia, I wasn’t convinced I was having a Big Adventure. After all, I was meeting real globe-trotters who made me look like a kid going on a 2nd grade field trip. But it’s all ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By yashar | Views [187] | Scholarship Entry
I have to go back; I have a huge debt to repay. I’m not sure how one payback personal experiences, but I’m eager to find a way when I go back to the battered city. The people I spoke with before going made it sound like a death sentence – friends working ... Read more >
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Tue, 8 Mar 2011 | By fraz | Views [202] | Scholarship Entry
My name is rizwan and I am astudent of MBA. I have to a big ambition of doing different things. In our first semester of MBA our Business communication teacher arranged a trip to pir sohawa. It is a hill resort which is about 5000 ft. above the ground.... Read more >
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