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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By pandemonium | Views [295] | 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 [406] | 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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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By thewayfarer | Views [429] | Scholarship Entry
The sound of Cicada chirps envelope the small city of Isahaya with a deafening ring every summer morning. To some, it’s complete torture. During the early days of September, however, these excruciating (not to mention extremely irritating) noises ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jenniferoctavia | Views [202] | Scholarship Entry
The snow is falling as I stand on the side of the main street of Allendale village with other thousands of enthusiastic people from kids to elderlies, waiting for the festival to start. I spot one man dressed as Ali G in a stereotypical “gangsta” getup ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By oendiik | Views [177] | Scholarship Entry
Actually I dont really know about this big world and i never know how to get out from this little box to move on to the biggest box that is the world. Until time i found a photographer comunities at some town in Indonesia, that is Malang cities. I meet ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By nosoygringo | Views [379] | Scholarship Entry
We had been cheated by the bus driver: 45 NTD over usual fare. An hour of unclear travel and we finally arrived to Shalun at 5 pm; my airport shuttle leaving at 8. The way to the little-known beach had been full of tricky alleys, sampling in minutes ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By rominlima | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
Providence Days Relieved to have arrived, limbs and dignity intact, after a midnight taxi drive through the back streets of Bogota; streets solely decorated by the battered looking working ladies, bleached graffiti, windswept newspaper pages and busy ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ash-ley | Views [263] | Scholarship Entry
When every inch of gnarled floor and battered seat had already been claimed, my friend and I were stuffed into the engine room with 6 other people. We arranged ourselves between bags and gasoline cans, squeezed into vacant dirty corners. The roar of the ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By gnathan | Views [248] | Scholarship Entry
The day my grandmother died, I thought of mango. A language barrier—she spoke only Tamil, and mine was broken at best—made conversation tough, so on my childhood visits to India we would sit and speak the quiet language of fruit. She carved up mangoes ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By anteeka | Views [215] | Scholarship Entry
Many friends of mine got an arranged marriage in their 14. yet, I was so into studying, especially in English class. My English teacher said that the language would be very important in the future. I could work or apply for an overseas scholarship for ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By lisbon | Views [206] | Scholarship Entry
Every time I visit Lisbon I come here to sit on the Esplanada do Adamastor.I get there in the afternoon and stay until dark.The Esplanada is a viewpoint, a miraodouro, which means literally translated “watch gold”. And that is the secret of those places ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By tahiraf | Views [396] | Scholarship Entry
I was 15 and travelling with my father for the first time in his native country, Pakistan, when I discovered food as a key to culture. In any country where the culture is distinct from your own it is easy to feel that all eyes are on you, yet I'm certain ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By wayfairer | Views [583] | Scholarship Entry
Unes, where's this from? I ask holding up a pastry dusted with sugar and cinnamon. Unes sits back, mint tea poised, his slender fingers cradling the glass. The Moriscos, in Fez they're famous for this. But first bstilla come from Al-Andalusia.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By travelling_noodles | Views [664] | Scholarship Entry
The air gets thinner and the rich aroma of coffee mixed with chicory caresses my senses as I wait at the dusty little bus stop. A crowd of men patiently wait the next bus to take them into the neighbouring towns, the traffic is composed of jeeps which ... Read more >
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