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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By phoebew | Views [140] | Scholarship Entry
You can judge a country by its buses. Morocco is chaotic. Goats and chickens are shoved into the bag hold along with our stuff as we haggle over ticket prices. A professed five-hour trip turns realistically into 11 hours and an extra stop in out-of-... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By imperfectrhyme | Views [867] | Scholarship Entry
Insight in Incense I never knew well the deceased Taiwanese poet, whose framed portrait is propped high in a mammoth-sized diadem of tropical flowers—the pale purples, pinks, and whites contrasting with the traditional reds and lustrous golds of the ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By xoslf | Views [168] | Scholarship Entry
Nilgun, a Turkish student participating in an exchange program for nursing school, came looking for me in the OT/PT office. Her instructor suggested that she learn about rehabilitation techniques and highlighted an outing for community reintegration that ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By indigenousminded | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
Children are adorable. Visiting any culture, travelers can learn copious amounts of information from the younger generations, ranging from toddlers to teenagers. In Otavalo, Ecuador my bond with an indigenous 4 year old was the highlight of a six week ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By anneluna | Views [281] | Scholarship Entry
I walked away with the orange-pink sunset of my last evening still imprinted on my retina, and some sand tickling between my toes. Hanging down my back was the reassuring weight of my backpack; was it really necessary to bring that Spanish-Dutch dictionary ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By oguttu | Views [185] | Scholarship Entry
With its magnificent attributes flowing from head to toe, Hyderabad paints it out of your dreams. So as you plan to live in them, you may need a dream-mate who has been there before tell you something; While patching in this rich and archaic part of ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By sema | Views [198] | Scholarship Entry
To pack the entire world in only one suitcase, and not just any one, the old one, the one that’s constantly been filled and emptied out of books, faces, music and silence, it means to constantly repack the poems of Blaze Koneski, the bottle of “T’ga ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By hevc | Views [381] | Scholarship Entry
Interrupted by the shrill, dawn chorus of resident Macaws, I awoke roughly from my outdoor siesta; the sweet, fresh aroma of Eucalyptus invigorated me as I attempted to shuffle free from the captivity of my 70s-style, striped hammock. I could see the ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By chimwemwe | Views [168] | Scholarship Entry
“Your next project’s in a refugee camp.” My boss’s voice is faint down the long distance line. Surely I must have misheard. “Refugee camp?” “Yes, I’ll send the details.” Of course I’d seen them on the news. White tents, flies and starving, dependant, ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By simcoskyj | Views [82] | Scholarship Entry
'Responsible Travel' I was told it would be different. A week in a ger in the Mongolian wilderness. Vegetarians might want to reconsider. Did I know how to accept snuff? I should bring a flashlight in case I wanted to go to the bathroom after dark.... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By vcarterjohnson | Views [143] | Scholarship Entry
This year I decided to seize the day and travel around the world, going to some places I have always wanted to go, do some thing I have always wanted to experience and emerge myself, well, in life basically. I love being able to spend time in a completely ... Read more >
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Thu, 24 Mar 2011 | By brahmanto | Views [160] | Scholarship Entry
I never thought such place exists in a polluted metropolitan like Surabaya. This is one of Pamurbaya (Pantai Timur Surabaya a.k.a. Surabaya’s Eastern Coast) ecotourism sectors. I came there twice. Once in Wonorejo, and recently in Gunung Anyar. The views ... Read more >
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Thu, 24 Mar 2011 | By globaltravel2011 | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
Lazily sitting on the bench in the park at a stone’s throw from your home you have the smallest chance to get into any kind of trouble. However, you also run the smallest chance to get involved into an interesting and captivating business. Why do people ... Read more >
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Thu, 24 Mar 2011 | By travelblips | Views [305] | Scholarship Entry
I pushed and jostled my way to the back corner of a sushi train restaurant in Asakusa, Japan. I found a seat adjacent to three very well dressed Japanese ladies who looked like they should be lunching at the Ritz After trading a polite smile for a disdainful ... Read more >
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