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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By elsasantos | Views [159] | Scholarship Entry
Itchy feet have always ran in my family… Having been born in an African country (Angola) and returning at a young age to the country of origin of most of my genes (Portugal), moving around became so familiar to me that these days I feel like “home” is ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By dianeyzpvp | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
I can still see Siri with her backpack, eighteen years old, lightly crossing transoms of age and language to make me feel comfortable among her teenage friends. In dreams she leads the way through Gamla Stan’s crowded caramel streets, turning to smile ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By conortje | Views [170] | Scholarship Entry
How should one dress when visiting the corpse of a dictator/country’s saviour/national lunatic/renowned egomaniac/saint? I’d been warned that jeans were not acceptable and a tie would demonstrate how seriously we were taking the visit. Needless to say ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By jesigash | Views [148] | Scholarship Entry
Beacon of Hope It's a sad thing to witness poverty first hand. To hear the sounds of despair rising up with the smell of fecal matter decaying in street. The stench is only made worse by the suffocating heat of the sun. I am unable to tear my eyes from ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By odonnellclan | Views [212] | Scholarship Entry
Wild Camping novice. Illegal here in England, not in Scotland. The advice: No fires. Bury any “deposits”. Arrive late, depart early. Leave no trace. I leave a terraced house in Yorkshire, marking a place high on the Pennines – discreet and far ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By meenal | Views [223] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
A place that I remember every time I feel bogged down my routine life. A place that I think of when my freedom is curtailed. A place where my mind and desires aren’t at loggerheads with each other. That place is Goa. In all likelihood a misadventure ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tunaswish | Views [201] | Scholarship Entry
Taken for a ride Holding on to dear camera, I wondered what madness had convinced me that motorbike-taxis were the best way to travel in Siem Reap. It didn’t matter now as I hung on to Kontpea, while he noisily navigated through a sea of unperturbed ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By cogitoconsciousness | Views [139] | Scholarship Entry
My experience doesn't fit in any category but i have chosen the said because an unknown culture encompasses a wide array of experience and is not confined by a territory. The word unknown always make me revisit Beckett where the tramps are caught in the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By aisha_t | Views [215] | Scholarship Entry
As in any small town, there is one major road that threads the settlement of Khasab. On one end it leads into the aptly named Hajjar, or “stone”, Mountains surrounding the village. On the other, it leads to the sea. This is the direction I am being driven, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By alanaallekotte | Views [503] | Comments [3] | Scholarship Entry
Mid-way through my $400 journey across Europe, I was invited to a Viennese apartment that invoked a paradigm shifting cultural shock. I found the apartment building and entered a metal-gated stone vestibule, revealing an ornate staircase that clashed ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By kbibi | Views [210] | Scholarship Entry
I had to repeat the word ‘Guangzhou’ several times before pronouncing it correctly. After the phone call I ran to a map. My eyes were instantly drawn to the celebrated cities but my intuition knew that I had to conquer this metropolis in South China also ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By maltesewanderer | Views [199] | Scholarship Entry
Close to Cafayate (Salta, NW Argentina) and the spectacular colourful rock formations of the nearby Quebrada de las Conchas, the former inhabitants of La Rosa gather to celebrate the feast of the Virgen de Fatima in the church which is now the sole surviving ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
I am old and slow. I have about 30 years. That’s about median age of Serbian population. Likewise average Serb, I also remember the time when I worked in much larger country, in that country people were wealthy and happy. Nowadays I am used by those, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By ifa_amalia_amazing | Views [498] | Scholarship Entry
A teacher whose name is experience In 2005, I followed study tour to Bali in 3 days and 2 nights which held by my school. In that time, I was in 3th junior high school. We went in Friday 07.00 pm from my school. When I rode the ship for crossed the sea ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By glacierian | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
Traveling in car, as we all know, is a tedious thing. My sister and I would gaze in an almost desperate plea to the never ending desert. “Buelita”, as we call my grandmother, would always go rambling on how great that place was. A little piece of heaven, ... Read more >
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