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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ontheroadagain | Views [302] | Scholarship Entry
After my friends and I consume enough lunch to feed a small herd of elephants, we decide that we have mustered enough energy to head to Atashgah, the Zoroastrian fire temple outside Isfahan’s city centre. Following a synchronised display of our finely ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jericafromamerica | Views [432] | Scholarship Entry
After the bliss of a saffron morning, on a plum night, I saw the yolk of an egg cook to a deep red between the mountains. I saw how it boiled over and spilt the horizon. I plucked a dragon fruit from under an ancestral filled sky and slurped ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By oktooch | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
It’s 5 o’clock in the morning at Siam Reap-Cambodia. I was at hotel loby and ready for my Angkor Wat journey and waiting for Rady. Rady was a tuktuk driver in Siam Reap who was local and we met one day before that day. I asked him to take me around Angkor ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By alloverthemap | Views [313] | Scholarship Entry
I did not trick her into eating donkey meat, exactly. It was late. She was hungry. She was weary from walking all day, something this 11-year-old all-American girl was not in the habit of doing. I assured her that spaghetti with meat sauce would be ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By aine2dublin | Views [217] | Scholarship Entry
“Miss miss. wee gaw aut pleee. Football. Raining. pleee mis” came the precious pleas from Mila, an inquisitive Balinese girl as the classroom comes to an abrupt standstill. It's early February in Petak, and the rainy season has bestowed its magic, splattering ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ryuready | Views [278] | Scholarship Entry
Upon arriving in a lone and isolated public school along the outskirts of the quaint yet bustling city of Yogyakarta, I honestly did not know what to expect. Under the scorching heat of a summer’s day, our long journey left me exhausted and dazed. One ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By acrossourworld | Views [526] | Scholarship Entry
“Di-ma” means thank you, “io” means sun, “cone” means rabbit and “iu” means woman. I learned this and a few more words in Chinanteco in 2001, when I went on my first Mission trip to the tiny community of Armadillo Chico in Oaxaca. I was 15 and the youngest ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By traveleater | Views [784] | Comments [9] | Scholarship Entry
Phnom Penh has lots of traffic. Not Hanoi levels, but the streets are clogged with bicycles, tuktuks, mopeds, and the occasional car. There are no real rules - people drive mostly on the right (but not exclusively) and weave around each other. If a street ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By travenesia | Views [288] | Scholarship Entry
When I was 5, my father took me to a place 300 km away from home. We spent 5 hours on the bus, and then walked 3 hours through hills and valleys to a small village where he was born. I still remember the moment clearly. It was my first time travel to ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By glosoli27 | Views [264] | Scholarship Entry
When you are about to become a professional linguist you are becoming more “serious”. You start looking for a job and…Bingo!.. the job itself finds you. But then it turns out not to be the job of your dream. I was about to join the army of secretaries ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By tiffanyteng | Views [227] | Scholarship Entry
In the slums of Arusha exists an orphanage aptly named Tuamkeni, the Swahili phrase for wake up. Coming here each day consists of two dangerously bumpy dala dala rides and a short walk past rundown shacks selling soda and patterned kitanga fabrics. ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By pandemonium | Views [296] | Scholarship Entry
Sometimes you think it could not be worse than this stupid situation. But, actually, it always can be. It happened one month ago. I was staying alone on the dark road. I could not go back because there was only a dark I had come from. I could not go ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By dcandbeyond | Views [217] | Scholarship Entry
“Steve, is ahh-ticle almoss finish?” I snap out of my heat-induced trance as a bead of sweat rolls off of my nose. Nodding to reassure my co-worker that the article I’m toiling over about rapes committed by Burmese government troops is completed; I glance ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ilepen | Views [412] | Comments [4] | Scholarship Entry
I relished the view of Mt. Apo, as I dream of conquering the country's highest peak, standing mightily in the midst of the clear sky on my way to the grassy field of the University in Kabacan, Philippines. Hot summer days push people to look for ... Read more >
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