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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By saraf | Views [181] | Scholarship Entry
Sometimes our own stories are the ones we never get the chance to tell. However, if a story is never told it becomes something else, forgotten. 22" x 14" x 9" were the dimensions of my life; it couldn’t get any bigger and dare not to get any smaller. ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By vicky82 | Views [151] | Scholarship Entry
I had not made my way across Normandy that day in search of spiritual solace. By definition I am not a spiritual person, quite the opposite in fact. The rise of the lonely façade of the Mont up ahead did not particularly stir me.While unarguably beautiful, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ontheroadagain | Views [292] | 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 johndunn | Views [251] | Scholarship Entry
The Man in the Park I sat down on one of the wooden bench seats in a small park off Valovaya Ulitsa. Surrounded by a mix of old soviet buildings and modern office towers it was a small sanctuary in the centre of Moscow. Well-dressed office workers, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By hollyurq | Views [309] | Scholarship Entry
Want to hear about the time I swam with a shark? I thought you might. It was last August in the Seychelles, a tiny sprinkling of islands just north of Madagascar, and I was swimming in the blue waters just outside Bae Ternay where I was staying.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By tetgrajo | Views [159] | Scholarship Entry
How we came to be squatting barefoot on the bamboo floors of a T’boli hut in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato is attributable to one person: Lang Dulay. We heard that this National Living Treasure lived ten minutes from where we stayed, so the decision to ride ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By roguetowel | Views [161] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
Flavours capture the place they’re from. The land grows the plants people eat; the environment shapes how food is prepared. The local flora and fauna have provided different societies their diet for hundreds or thousands of years. Understanding a culture ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By soloviaje | Views [212] | Scholarship Entry
Children are milling around. Some are playing on the mud floor. Others are filling in, making the bamboo door creak each time. A few of the adults are walking around shushing the noisy ones. For a second my senses are overwhelmed, the smell of fresh bread, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jericafromamerica | Views [421] | 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 [163] | 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 [307] | 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 travelinglady86 | Views [149] | Scholarship Entry
Though many travelers that venture to foreign lands and claim they have experienced what life is like in various countries, actually know very little about the culture and people until being submersed in the places less traveled. For example, staying ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By aine2dublin | Views [216] | 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 [276] | 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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