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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By syubidu | Views [151] | Scholarship Entry
The young ranger’s story The scenery dominated with blue sea and green trees, view like in the travelling postcard. A virgin island, untouched by man. The beauty it shyly offer among the sandy and rocky beach. There almost no sound other than our buzzing ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By stefaniemarkidis | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
Morning breathes a shy whisper over this black rock country. I watch as she awakens. Smiling, I feed her my warmth. Six months is too long between visits. I have missed Iceland but returned with summer. I extend arms to the country’s ocean-side capital, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By glassswivelsandredlampionsinshanghai | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry
After pushing aside the thick cotton curtains of this two storey restaurant, we received a loud welcome greeting in chinese. As we entered, there was an impressive arrangement of pumpkins on the floor and traditional red lampions hanging from the ceiling.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By valthambee | Views [160] | Scholarship Entry
The dog stirs, then barks – soon the stock wake up one after another, each grunting in its own voice the reluctance of rising, an orchestra of farm animals performing a morning song. It’s four in the morning and still dark out; I trudge bleary-eyed towards ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jordanwellard | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry
A beacon of beauty and power, deceivingly still it dominates the sea, rising through it, defying its swallowing depths. It is Stromboli, the most active volcano in Europe. A signpost details the path ahead: volcano viewing point, altitude four hundred ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By kutitap | Views [193] | Scholarship Entry
Udo and Inga were from Luneburg. They moved to Schöneck, 15 km NE of Frankfurt, to start a family with 3 children. Udo was an engineer and had built their house from the ground up himself. I had started a correspondence with their daughter, Susi, whom ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By youngboy | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry
Having being grown up as an Indian kid, there were many things I had to complain about, but the food was definitely was of the exceptions. Through our food was the way we felt we should show our guests the respect and how delighted we are to have them ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By selfproclaimeddubliner | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
Something metal hammers against my third floor bedroom window. A mysterious whip created out of a bed sheet and bicycle lock swings away and clanks back into the glass. My curiosity outweighs my fear as I cautiously peek out the threshold of the window.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By secretlywaywardmiss | Views [138] | Scholarship Entry
Spring broke and the Cherry Blossoms have started to flower alongside the Asugawa riverbanks of Fukui. I have not gone out that winter except to go to the school I taught. I was faced with a choice of remaining ignorant to this wabi-sabi moment or exploring ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By liveintasik | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
Tasikmalaya is one of the regions in west java, Indonesia. This region is well-known by people, especially Indonesian, because of the famous Pangandaran beach and the mount Galunggung as a tourist destination. My friends and I were traveling to this place ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By lmeserve | Views [189] | Scholarship Entry
It had been a five-day sail from Oaxaca, Mexico to get to this isolated estuary on the El Salvador coast. It wasn’t the wilderness, but it was so deeply rural that the only way to find goods and services was by rumor and luck. Buying groceries involved ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By lesliecanderson | Views [199] | Scholarship Entry
It took nearly a year for the tan lines on my normally pale feet to wear off from the summer I spent studying abroad in Uganda. Having packed but three sets of shoes in my carry-on, Madame Caroline of City Council glanced disapprovingly down at my trainers ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By andrewdschultz | Views [214] | Scholarship Entry
Trekking into Burma reminds me of hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains. Moist air feeds the lush wilderness. A noontime shower is always possible. However, any similarity to my native Carolina soon disappears as a crater cuts my trail in two.“Mortar fire,” ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By katie_shrader | Views [202] | Scholarship Entry
My introduction to Russia isn’t going well. The Aeroflot jet I boarded in Copenhagen is shabby inside and out, and I doubt it’s had maintenance since Brezhnev. When I tried to distract myself from our looming demise with small talk, nerves reduced three ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By warcar | Views [143] | Scholarship Entry
I walk away from the noise of Siem Reap's Pub Street, and I don't stop. I walk over sleeping dogs and woven mats full of rambutans and bananas. I bypass dark-eyed children with unnatural smiles. I step into barely lit alleys, the fear of the unknown ... Read more >
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