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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By trina | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
“Where you from, darlin’?” she drawls in her thick, Southern accent. Worn sandstone and balconies fenced with filigree iron fly past as the car swerves its way through the tiny streets. Mardi Gras beads, bars, antique stores. Troubadours, cafes, shouted ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By slreflections | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry
The hacking cough pre-warned me, and I shortened my stride to avoid the phlegmy spit that arced past me to detonate on the footpath. The grin of the throat-clearing chef beside me reminded me that i wasn't strolling past an oncology ward, but a city street ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By aurah | Views [229] | Scholarship Entry
It’s August of 2009, I get off the bus in Mostar, Bosnia. As I walk I see the bomb shell markings left on many of the tall abandoned apartment buildings along the main street where war tanks plowed down not so long ago. After I get settled in my hostel ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By samantha-u | Views [277] | Scholarship Entry
Growing up on the Great Lakes, you'd think I'd know a thing or two about fish. I know the big ones, the little ones, the ones that slither past and make me jump out of my skin. Then there are the fun ones that put up a fight. But eating it? No thanks.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By alfinio | Views [177] | Scholarship Entry
The grasshopper stared at me with its one, deep-fried eye. “Well, this isn't going to eat itself” I thought as the grinning vendor anxiously watched me, hoping I’d buy half a kilo from her. That first sensation of the semi-crunchy, semi-chewy consistency ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sarzha | Views [141] | Scholarship Entry
"Bank see. Bank see," repeated a Bethlehem taxi driver as he waved us over to his yellow car. "Tour. Five pictures on wall. Famous." He pulled out a binder with laminated photos of stencil graffiti: a dove wearing a bulletproof vest, a girl patting down ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By riverdiamonds | Views [145] | Scholarship Entry
A Honduran summer night is the soundtrack of childhood’s most imaginative dreams and nightmares. In the absence of strained and steady city sounds, everything in rural El Espinal makes noise: a grasshopper’s wings against the humid air, the neighbor’s ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By rebeccarich | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry
I roll out of my twelve dollar sleeping bag, casting an eye on the chalky remains of last night’s fire that had warmed the tea we drank out of old jam jars, and baked the damper we made with ocean-washed hands, before drizzling in honey and eating straight ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By tman | Views [207] | Scholarship Entry
I first met Khan, The Lion, when he yelled "Stop, you can't do that!" We were on the Sassoon Docks in southern Mumbai, India. In the early sunrise, the pastel pinks, blues and greens of the painted fishing boats deftly maneuvering for space ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By matthewmagellan | Views [127] | Scholarship Entry
It was a sunny afternoon in Cape Town. It was the middle of the day. I was just off a major thoroughfare. It wasn’t as if I was wandering dark alleys at night in Johannesburg. And yet, here I was confronted by three local boys, one of whom in his thick ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By campfirevampire | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
Thumb and index finger come together; the universal sign for money brings a smile to the gas station attendant’s face. The station is old, as worn and beaten as the landscape it colours momentarily with signs of life. We rolled in almost running on empty, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By saltcitygirl | Views [294] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
The smell of stews, meats and rice mingle with exhaust, sweat and ocean swirl around me at the Lovina street market. My guide and I stand next to a butcher whose hands expertly carve fat and flesh from a goat carcass strung on the rafters above. A woman ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By whalerider | Views [184] | Scholarship Entry
I wake up in the late afternoon and climb out of the window - to smoke a cigarette. It is still hot and kind August sunbeams tickle my sleepy skin. I stretch out my hands, smile vacantly and feel a sudden urge to saunter along narrow tortuous streets ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sam_louiseb | Views [344] | Scholarship Entry
She sits cradling her dead husband’s body, gently stroking his forehead. "You were such a good husband," she says tenderly "why did you have to leave us?" The room they are sitting in is bare; a coloured hand spun rug on the floor the only decoration.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By trishlim12 | Views [186] | Scholarship Entry
The jeepney comes to a halt. I wipe the sleep from my eyes and lift my head to find five bearded faces glaring back. The sun’s harsh rays fall directly from above, intensifying the ruthless expressions on the disembodied heads that hang from a wooden ... Read more >
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