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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By rinasilvana | Views [831] | Scholarship Entry
On January 2012 I went to Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Jogjakarta is a very cultured city and the customary still very strong. What caught my attention much in Jogjakarta is Malioboro street. Many sellers sell their stuff in some kind of booth/stand along ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By daretocrosstheline | Views [783] | Scholarship Entry
The sun was shining on the widowed sky.We walked all day,visiting and meeting impressive people,but when we stopped for our last visit,the view made us forget all the. From the burning land an ancient city was rising in front of our eyes.It was imposing,beautiful ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By sadiekadlec | Views [1008] | Scholarship Entry
Shortly after arriving in Thies I wandered off alone for the first time. The city never seemed too fierce and Senegal was constantly being toted as the country of hospitality. Yet, as a woman I was often warned to be cautious. Against all this, I found ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By jjones | Views [860] | Scholarship Entry
I didn’t expect to have cheesecake and dulce de leche, smashed into my face by an Argentinean Producer in an elegant art gallery at 1.30am. Always expect the unexpected, in a city like Buenos Aires. I was at the city’s fashionable new dining experience, ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By duende | Views [2014] | Comments [1]
When I hit the road for Brazil to unearth the various musical styles of this music-rich land I was already acquainted with a few musical styles such as Samba, Bossa Nova, Lambada, Capoeira and Xote. However, I knew the music of Brazil is as diverse and ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By katecaroline | Views [681] | Scholarship Entry
As I walk through the medina, otherwise known as the old city, in Rabat, I am on the lookout for a vendor with his heaps of spices, from whom I can buy what I need to make tajine for tonight’s dinner. I find him in his little booth and I ask him for the ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By manaamin | Views [599] | Scholarship Entry
Cats with dirt-clotted fur sift through mounds of garbage haphazardly discarded next to a suburban road. I can hear the clapping of sandals on marble stairs as the call to prayer stretches over Madinat Al Nasr. Soon I will soon see kufied-men hurrying ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By greener6891 | Views [650] | Scholarship Entry
I find myself under the towering pilings of a bridge connecting the two halves of Harbin, China’s northernmost capital. The frozen arm of the Songhua River stretches before me. My eyes clatter over a surface littered with ice chunks to reach the buildings ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By husnahk | Views [590] | Scholarship Entry
I woke up in my family’s hotel room at the Bayview Resort on August 19, 2000, in Penang, Malaysia. There was a terrible thunderstorm the day before that had prevented my family from leaving the hotel room. Thankfully, the skies were clear and cloudless ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By thearchetypalwanderer | Views [532] | Scholarship Entry
It was years ago when I was set off from my home country Turkey southbound to Egypt. Though it was not a huge abstraction from my own culture, which is Islamic, I was unaware the destiny shaped by the abysmal discrepancy of Egypt. So I deserted the tumultuous ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By zagary | Views [753] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
The syrup-sweet chai exhales loving tendrils over our cheeks and lips in the crisp mountain air. We sit cross-legged in the dusty courtyard clasping chipped, fist-sized mugs and take our first sips in unison. My eyes meet the sun-lined face of the middle-... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By cambodian | Views [800] | Scholarship Entry
My adventure trip is started on 13th night to 17th of April 2012 while Songkran festival. I arrived to Cambodia on 14th afternoon. I was in Siem Reap. I had know one man who can speak English and he wanted to be my guide to cultural study here. I said ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By amitkiri | Views [686] | Scholarship Entry
Generations come and generations go. And this planet spins around. What makes me or you or us so special then? As for physicists, different planets would make a galaxy and many galaxies the universe, for me are the worlds within this world. One may call ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By krystsina | Views [546] | Scholarship Entry
Colorful women around. Inquisitive men watching me like TV. Cute and dirty children begging for food and money. The smells of exhaust fumes, pee and incense mixed together. Horns beeping frantically. The whole family riding one bike. The sun shining ... Read more >
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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By katiefeldhaus | Views [618] | Scholarship Entry
When people think of Greece they usually picture beautiful people sipping drinks on even more beautiful beaches. This is a very prominent part of the country’s intrigue, but my experience was much more fulfilling than a bottle of Ouzo. I attended an international ... Read more >
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