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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By laurenmcneil | Views [132] | Scholarship Entry
As the sun sets over the waves, he keeps watch. He paces to the smooth and steady sequence of the waves crashing into the shore. Beach goers are no more. They have retired their sunburns and saunter to the bar. Laughter echoes, but he does not join;... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jasiwalker | Views [118] | Scholarship Entry
When I think of that rugged, weathered peninsula fixed to the southwest of the isle of Britain, my first thought is of a pasty. It’s hard to think of much else when these savory delights appear in so many bakery windows, proudly displaying their Cornish ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By csblack | Views [189] | Scholarship Entry
Rose water and burnt animal flesh permeate the market air outside the mosque in downtown Xi’an. Boomboxes rather than muezzins provide the soundtrack. I want to erase the acrid film of stale airline food that still lingers on my tongue. I walk through ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By alyssa0528 | Views [144] | Scholarship Entry
I just broke one of my cardinal rules of traveling: never go to the same restaurant twice in one trip. I had zero reason to in Barcelona, but for the second night in a row, I wound up at La Bodegueta. This time, I didn’t miss the entrance. I peered in ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By katypillar | Views [607] | Comments [5] | Scholarship Entry
It’s a long walk to school for Srey Nit aged 5. She treads the dusty dirt track from her village, emerging on the bustling main street of Stung Mean Chey on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The air is thick. Exhaust fumes hang heavy in the air and there is ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By psycoabobo | Views [89] | Scholarship Entry
Step 1: Stand on a deserted beach during a tropical thunderstorm. Step 2: face the oncoming storm, rain whipping your face and thunderclouds rolling towards you like an ancient and enormous war machine. Step 3: Breath slowly and deeply. Imagine you can ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sjacks | Views [126] | Scholarship Entry
Today at lunch I ate a fish—a fish pulled fresh from the lake, dipped in a fryer, and put on my plate—head, scales, bones and all. I’m sitting on an outside bench; the plate on my lap is filled with ugali, unidentifiable greens, and of course, the fish.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By devipebrianti | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry
I went to Myanmar last March. It was my first trip to a closed-socialist country. Since I come from a liberal democratic country, my view about a closed-socialist country are; poor, undeveloped, and it has nothing. Books and news that I've read could ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By lynnette_woo | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
Malaysia is like the fruit that thrive there: the blossoming fuchsia dragon fruit revealing an albino kiwi-like flesh; the unwieldy hairy rambutan hiding a sweet, refreshing lychee-cousin; the leathery plum epidermis of the mangosteen dying skin and clothes ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ronin-girl | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry
In 2009, I was lucky to periodically stay with a Thai friend’s family in a small village near Sathing Phra, Thailand. A family poor financially though not for any other aspect of their lives. The mother seemed to prepare rice in her sleep as it was ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sarah_fleur | Views [373] | Scholarship Entry
Bursting with excitement I rise early on our first day in Cairo, the thick smoggy air tickles my nose as I anxiously await our tour guide. An hour behind schedule, Mohammad appears and our journey begins. We scurry from the great pyramids, to nearby sphinx ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By mostone | Views [183] | Scholarship Entry
Tucked along an Italian cobblestoned piazza in Florence, Trattoria Massacio was a small and unassuming restaurant. Inside, a dark waiter sat me at a long wooden table with paper placemats typical of the family-style, casual atmosphere of a traditional ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By cocointheworld | Views [137] | Scholarship Entry
Sydney is a young city by most travelers’ standards, and then, hardly a building remains from the first colonial settlements. One could spend less than a day to see the major architectural attractions that might take weeks in Italy or Cambodia. One ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By kulopungky | Views [150] | Scholarship Entry
what is the best part of traveling: Seeing new place? Exploring what the beautiful and the unique things of city? Food Culinary? or What people do there? I really love traveling because I can learn something new yet the experience of explore the places ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ash-ley | Views [221] | Scholarship Entry
When every inch of gnarled floor and battered seat had already been claimed, my friend and I were stuffed into the engine room with 6 other people. We arranged ourselves between bags and gasoline cans, squeezed into vacant dirty corners. The roar of the ... Read more >
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