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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By helen_roi | Views [188] | 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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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By kateallan | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
Every year exchange students from all over the world join the pilgrimage to the little, red city of Bologna. They come to study at the world’s oldest university, stuff themselves full of tagliatelle al ragù, explore buzzing underground bars and join a ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By josefineyaputri | Views [1970] | Comments [43] | Scholarship Entry
I might be not an experienced traveler, but my first journey to a foreign country was more than what I had expected before. I am almost 19, and I spent my last winter for a month in Turkey. Yes, Turkey. People might only know about Istanbul or Ankara, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By ayresj | Views [179] | Scholarship Entry
As I turned and left the terminal building, the wet, musty summer’s air clung to my skin. My feet struck stones on the burnt tarmac, as I brushed off the cacophony of drivers and touts clamouring to make my business theirs. I had decided to begin my ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By sertansaral | Views [178] | Scholarship Entry
Back in 2004, when I was 19, I went to Turkey for the first time in 11 years with my dad. It was only a three week trip and because I hadn’t been there in so long and because we had family there, I decided to let dad take the lead. With the little time ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By restless | Views [236] | Scholarship Entry
As I reached Heathrow airport, I was excited. After running around arranging visas for about a month, I finally reached the destination that awaited me. London, The place we had vaguely known from the novels, movies, google-research and images. It was ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By kathleencaulderwood | Views [263] | Scholarship Entry
From Mumbai to Mountains: One Reckless Journey I try to keep my balance as the skinny horse sways and jolts beneath me, picking carefully through the loose rocks. I glance up again at the apparently vertical slope we're ascending, and hear the stones ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By ahmed_hassan | Views [94] | Scholarship Entry
? Let’s fix the world Nic Vujicic, A giant of a man ? Issue 2 When 1400 change maker gather in one place When I look back at my experience at the 5th World Youth Congress, I look at the experience I got from meeting 1400 change maker from all around ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By caucasianinvasian | Views [155] | Scholarship Entry
It’s easy to feel isolated working abroad. To attain full immersion, all social barriers must be broken down; and where better to dive into a new culture than at a Korean Spa? With hundreds of naked bodies, awkwardness is fleeting.... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By bfelds | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
My cousin, Becca, and I awoke before the sun rose in Valencia, Spain to put our game faces on, to , gulp a liter of sangria, put our game-faces on and run to the Valencia-San Isidro Train Station. We left our hostel at 6am 6 AM in Valencia, Spain, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By candiceward | Views [171] | Scholarship Entry
RHYTHMS DEL CUBA Her music is well-known, but Cuba’s inner rhythm can’t be heard within a resort's confines. Our lodging in the Atlantic north feels above it all, so we check out and board a bus for Santiago de Cuba, eager to feel Cuba's undulating ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By emeraldwillows | Views [215] | Scholarship Entry
The thunder rumbles out to sea, fighting with the dying sun silhouetting the islands. A languid tropical breeze wafts over me carrying the floral scent of the vahine’s. Angelie must be near, faithfully delivering my apertif. I have become close to her ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By wandering_kiwi | Views [201] | Scholarship Entry
A thin torrent of water plumes over the rocky falls below me. Behind me a snaking line of Brazilian adolescents offer expressions of encouragement, or perhaps warning, in distinguished Portuguese slang. Their Speedo clad loins leaving nothing to the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By kellstoner | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
A Bus Worth Taking The jovial atmosphere is infectious and almost convinces me I’m not in danger. Villagers sway along to the latest Indian pop song as we bump and career down the road. I make my first attempt at loosening my locked knuckles from the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By ece | Views [192] | Scholarship Entry
Paris of the East beckons with demur and menace, grace and chaos. I bump along on a jumbled contraption - three wheels attached to a rusting galvanized frame, with a deck chair and dusty parasol atop. All powered by a coughing motor- and my determined ... Read more >
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