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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By fly_higher | Views [132] | Scholarship Entry
From March 23 to April 18, 2012, I was in Tokyo, Japan for sight seeing and accompanied the high school students from Jakarta. I have been to Japan for five times before but this time, I looked Japan through other eyes. This time we ( I and the students) ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By travelism | Views [107] | Scholarship Entry
An extremely hot sun as summer in Ankara, Turkey, makes me want to chew some ice cubes. However, I get a burning tea as a welcome drink when I look for lunch at the cafe. I remember an occasion few hours ago, when I settle down at Kizilay park. The sellers ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By nataliav | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
The sweetness of the air increases with the smell of the wild guavas falling. The jungle, patient and ancient, sings it's music softly mixed with calypso filled stories engraved in the skin of the multicolor houses. Miss Miller is already waiting for ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jenniferoctavia | Views [175] | Scholarship Entry
The snow is falling as I stand on the side of the main street of Allendale village with other thousands of enthusiastic people from kids to elderlies, waiting for the festival to start. I spot one man dressed as Ali G in a stereotypical “gangsta” getup ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By oendiik | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
Actually I dont really know about this big world and i never know how to get out from this little box to move on to the biggest box that is the world. Until time i found a photographer comunities at some town in Indonesia, that is Malang cities. I meet ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By beirut-eye | Views [123] | Scholarship Entry
Amidst the summer of 2009 I was awarded a trip to Jordan for my high school graduation. By that time, I knew everything about the Hashemite Kingdom as I always wanted to visit the Dead Sea, Jordan River and the Nabataean city of Petra to discover what ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By cmcclelland | Views [111] | Scholarship Entry
It is early morning. I have just crossed into Jordan from Israel and I'm ready to haggle for the best price for my taxi to Petra, but only one taxi driver is waiting on the street outside the border. He leans against his battered sedan and nonchalantly ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By on_the_road | Views [127] | Scholarship Entry
I reached Dharamsala at 3 that night. After hitting my head twice against the seat ahead and once on the window next to me, I decided to lie flat across a three-seater with my back-pack lying underneath. With no hotel-booking, I sat, lone passenger, weighing ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By nosoygringo | Views [329] | Scholarship Entry
We had been cheated by the bus driver: 45 NTD over usual fare. An hour of unclear travel and we finally arrived to Shalun at 5 pm; my airport shuttle leaving at 8. The way to the little-known beach had been full of tricky alleys, sampling in minutes ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By mangdarren | Views [430] | Scholarship Entry
Travel is a loud dialogue between real and the ideal. The confused traveler walks in between these two shouting poles. Travelers crave to experience the place like a local while locals like to experience the traveler’s lifestyle. This contrast provides ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By rominlima | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry
Providence Days Relieved to have arrived, limbs and dignity intact, after a midnight taxi drive through the back streets of Bogota; streets solely decorated by the battered looking working ladies, bleached graffiti, windswept newspaper pages and busy ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By octav | Views [184] | Scholarship Entry
Twas the third time that I had left the home country, and found myself near Moraitika in Corfu, Greece accompanied by high-school friends and loads of freedom. After 2 days of pool and sea side - ness, I finally found my crew and set off on a small bike ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By cordoba_galioto | Views [95] | Scholarship Entry
I walk lost and lonely with no direction, and I don’t want one. I lost another infatuation. She is exotically different. What’s important to her she can’t say because she is a realist. She never once told me what she wanted; she expected me to know. ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jiaies | Views [215] | Scholarship Entry
Voices faded into the dark night as I sat, mesmerized, at the blue flames licking the sides of a makeshift flat pan. Siztah was cooking enough paella to feed the twenty hungry souls camped in the yard. She threw in handfuls of tomatoes to the soupy rice ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By doreesimon | Views [732] | Scholarship Entry
One fish. Two fish. Red, blue, silver, with garlic, salt and… Wait, what am I doing? I haven’t eaten meat or fish in years. I haven’t even wanted to. And yet, as I stroll along this towel-dotted Spanish beach, my mouth salivates. My nose leads. And ... Read more >
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