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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By runningkites | Views [476] | 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 lucia | Views [99] | Scholarship Entry
So here we are, three young girls waiting at the last stop of Amsterdam’s metro with huge backpacks full of cans. Waiting for a guy we had never met, hoping to stay at his place for four nights. Here we are, trying to blend in with the dark, ignore the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By markblackman | Views [125] | Scholarship Entry
As I take off my tinted goggles, my eyes are assaulted by the blindingly white, yet slightly blueish light reflecting off the fresh snow. The noise of tourists on their winter holidays has been absorbed by the pine woods and crevices of the all encompassing ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By shakilrabbi | Views [83] | Scholarship Entry
Though I was last there almost two years ago, I still remember the billboard at the fork in the river as clearly as the corner-crack of my bathroom mirror; the patent orange and black colors of the cell phone ad shined brightly, it was taller than green ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By bsampson | Views [136] | Scholarship Entry
Oh that you would come with me To a wonder a yonder place! So serene, quiet and rejuvenating, Your soul would leave rejoicing! The tranquil flow of Eden’s Brook In my tropical suburban neighborhood; The brilliance of its stony riverbed; The shady, colorful ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tasmania | Views [270] | 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 davfan | Views [218] | Scholarship Entry
Located fewer than 80 km from Mexico City, Iztaccíhuatl is the third highest mountain in Mexico, rising to an impressive 5260m above sea level. My first mountain, my 'Big Adventure'. 'Izta' resembles a woman lying on her back as if on a funeral pyre ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By moinakdutta | Views [159] | 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 [427] | 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 emilyprell | Views [256] | Scholarship Entry
It was a foggy Christmas Eve in 2009, and my friend and I were on a train from Heathrow Airport to downtown London. We sat quietly as we passed row houses with remnants of a recent snowfall and let it sink in that we were in England, beginning what ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By miomo | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
I am from India and was studying in law school back then. I happened to enter a contest and by answering few questions correctly; I made my way into the final round of a contest. Prize winner was to get a ticket to Malaysia plus an opportunity to visit ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By 2_magic_days | Views [102] | Scholarship Entry
I want to tell you my adventure in Ephesus, Turkey when I was there as the AIESEC's intern in summer 2010. First of all, I arrived to Selcuk and discovered one of the 7's Wonders of the world - Artemis Temple. It was wonderful!..Staing there and understanding ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By lauraf | Views [290] | Scholarship Entry
It was raining when I arrived in Fort William. It was going to ruin everything. As I checked into the hostel I told the receptionist I travelling the West Highland Railway. “The what?” he asked. “The famous steam train journey through the hills and ... 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 [183] | 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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