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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By elena3 | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
Japan on a day off from conquering the world Crimson red,royal blue, splashes of colors were everything I could see.The noise was deafening and the heat was almost painful.I felt as if in the last 20 minutes I had lost an amount of water comparable to ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By tetgrajo | Views [138] | 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 juyu | Views [106] | Scholarship Entry
A large pellet of Berocca sank slowly in the glassy sky, its deep orange stain being steadily engulfed by the shadows of twilight. Reverse effervescence, how fitting for a return journey home. My friends and I bear each road bump in our own exhausted ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By obtravels | Views [265] | Scholarship Entry
As my eyes open, the sun shines down as a cool breeze picks up. The smell of red snapper rises through the air and finds company with the smell of fried plantains. Only when I pan around to the lush valleys and volcanos in the distance, do i remember ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By roguetowel | Views [147] | 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 calliev | Views [169] | Scholarship Entry
The Statue of Liberty looms out of the fog. It's a rainy morning (the first in weeks) and the effect is breathtaking. With the high-rises of Manhattan hidden I can almost imagine what this statue must have looked like a hundred years ago in front of a ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By soloviaje | Views [177] | 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 [377] | 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 [148] | 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 [282] | 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 milesiole | Views [96] | Scholarship Entry
I ran under the blistering heat down the intersection to a narrow barangay road stately lined with giant acacia trees. Cold breeze touched my skin while serenaded by the never ending rhapsody of insects and birds. I followed a faint trail covered with ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By andyjohnson | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
My fiance called: “I’m bringing a child home. I’ll explain later.” We taught at Cuttington University amid the beauty and destruction of rural Liberia. Howling storms destroyed houses and cleaned smoke from the air. Iron mountains towered in the distance.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By travelinglady86 | Views [133] | 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 [199] | 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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