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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By lou1031 | Views [243] | Scholarship Entry
Beauty is indefinable, so is happiness and loneliness. We create our own meaning for these words. We see things differently and interpret situations based on our own experiences in life. For people who have been waking and sleeping along the beach lines ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By steficanicolbikes | Views [203] | Scholarship Entry
Kabuki-Za theatre, in Tokyo’s Higashi-Ginza district, is a dignified dwarf next to the high-rise towers and skyscrapers nearby. By 10am eager patrons arrive. Japanese women in elaborate water-coloured silk kimonos giggle behind waxed paper fans. Tourists ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By designerchick | Views [226] | Scholarship Entry
Going on a solo holiday in a country so rich in culture and so full of life, I was excited to explore Singapore on my own. My goal was to really find a job in Singapore. I wanted to give my family back in the Philippines a better life. I wanted for ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By siobhanw | Views [240] | Scholarship Entry
With his lined ebony face grimacing and tiny fists strained, the rickshaw driver hauls my backpack onto his bicycle. My skin glistening with sweat, a subtle breeze nudges my shoulders as we jerk down the dirt track. Stray dogs lie scattered on the road, ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By travelbug77 | Views [329] | Scholarship Entry
Salivating in Sri Lanka Making my way down the tiled stairs my clothes cling to me in sudden sweat like the heat of an inescapable wet jungle. Passing the family shrine of Buddha Shakyamuni, my nostrils fill with the familiar sweet flowery perfume of ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By mymonoarfa_journal | Views [354] | Scholarship Entry
Culinary experience during my three days in Malaysia gave me lessons on diversity presented through food. I spent my first day with shopping at Bukit Bintang area which is renowned as a shopping paradise. area covered by the mall and stores it's very ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By shaya | Views [310] | Scholarship Entry
Sitting back in the classroom I knew so well, I stared sadly at my atlas wondering why I had believed its lies merely two weeks earlier. I knew it did not represent the reality of the Amazon. Not at all. I had been there; the majestic river was only hiding ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By travelatude | Views [235] | Scholarship Entry
In a remote mountain village, people still live the hard life of shepherds according to centuries old local tradition. I stumbled on Lukomir while researching a trip to Bosnia. Seeing pictures of stone homes, outhouses and wizened people in regional ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By reiserin | Views [237] | Scholarship Entry
After a week in Vietnam I was getting ready for what I believed would be one of the best places of my trip: Ha Long Bay. That night I was to stay at Cat Ba Island and the next day I would leave to Ha Long. I had a whole afternoon there, so I went out ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By drawer | Views [297] | Scholarship Entry
MOHAMED When I first met him, at his tent by the desert of Dahab, Sinai, what impressed me the most was his Bedouin definition of nationality: the territory wasn´t related to actual boundaries like ours but to the act of moving. As we advanced in a three ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By sophied | Views [202] | Scholarship Entry
I come to see cobblestone lanes of London Bridge swallowed by the free time of the people, born on days like this. Spilling out under fleeting trains and overlooking eyes, sometimes meeting mine before fast leaving me to a broken walkers pace. Pavilions ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By rinassanctuary | Views [175] | Scholarship Entry
When I was elementary school, my father and I went to Kuningan for attending wedding party. Kuningan was one of town in West Java, Indonesia. My father and I went there by private car. Since our house was far from Kuningan , we had to go there in early ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By whereflowersgrow | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
Arriving into Iran was pretty scary. I’d made frantic preparations even before getting my exit visa stamped on the Armenian side of the tiny land border. I’d scrutinized my headscarf, made sure that no stray wisp of hair had escaped and not even the tiniest ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By simgready | Views [302] | Comments [4] | Scholarship Entry
The Little Boy from Lesotho Our trip to Lesotho in June 2009 was a life-changing experience, but, on one particular afternoon with the sun glistening on the snow-capped mountains, I met a little boy who I have since never forgotten. I’m not a huge ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By bethyd | Views [197] | Scholarship Entry
"Bon Bon" France and food. They go together like chocolate and croissants. When I got off the plane in Paris, I was home. It was the noise that hit me first. Taxi’s hooters screeching, and their drivers even more so. The mellifluous language softening ... Read more >
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