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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By saraf | Views [160] | 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 deang | Views [222] | Scholarship Entry
As I stroll along the grassy shore of the Perfume River in Hu?, it doesn’t take long before I am spotted. My pale white legs shining like a beacon in the afternoon sun. “Sir! Sir!” I spin around as a woman in her mid-thirties reaches me, breathless. She ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By driftingdreamer | Views [195] | Scholarship Entry
The outskirt of Bangalore holds no prize for the habitual tourists, beach brained, mountain huggers or sea sprites. Yet like any place in the world, every city has its charms & for me it was a small home for the destitute in Bangalore. It set out as a ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By haikumed | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
It all started with a small unidentified tuber. The woman sitting next to me on the bus offered the finger-like root to me a few minutes into the six hour journey. I had been staring out the window engrossed in the everyday happenings of the countryside ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By greenant | Views [141] | Scholarship Entry
Skyros is mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey. Our ferry voyage to the island was two days ago. We missed the annual Goat Festival but on befriending a local taverna owner called Adonis, we were invited to a family celebration. Hefting boxes of food, from a ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By kmilton | Views [125] | Scholarship Entry
The waiting area was limbo. An endless white room filled with rows of hard plastic seats and thousands of tiny round faces peering curiously at the two pale foreigners who lingered uncertainly by the entrance. Minutes passed uncomfortably, the anxiety ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By vicky82 | Views [135] | 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 valewis | Views [125] | Scholarship Entry
The sky was fading, stars starting to peek out from behind the trees. My host mother Michelle swerved the old Toyota down a narrow dirt path in rural Provence, kicking up a cloud of dust before stopping by a large, battered circus tent. Endless fields ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ulkachandinipendit | Views [212] | Scholarship Entry
Little girl: “Are you Italian?” Connie and I: “No.” Little girl: “Do you have Facebook?” Connie and I: “No.” She is just a girl, probably ten years old. We bumped into her while Julien was buying water at small stall in Teboursouk, Tunisia. I don’t know ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ontheroadagain | Views [252] | 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 jendib | Views [112] | Scholarship Entry
Power has been rationed to some extent ever since I started visiting Gaza in 2009. However, on this, my sixth, trip to Gaza, it is in particularly short supply. In fact, the average house is now being forced to live with a six hours on-12 hours off schedule, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By johndunn | Views [218] | 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 mike | Views [111] | Scholarship Entry
It's fiesta time in Tarlac, my father's home province, and my family has decided to make the trip from Manila to catch up with relatives. I agree with enthusiasm to the idea of visiting since to me, fiestas are almost synonymous with another concept -... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By brianeha | Views [197] | Scholarship Entry
Chinese hot pot is a celebration of community. It’s more than a dish, more than a means of filling your belly, it’s a way of eating that’s also a way of life. What you do is you gather around the dining table as many friends and family members as possible, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By hollyurq | Views [284] | 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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