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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ccumulusnimbus | Views [119] | Scholarship Entry
The bus ride from Toronto to New York City is 11 hours of sitting cramped, with hurried pit stops at snack bars selling unappetizing prepackaged foods. What I needed was a nice, hot meal at a diner where I could listen to the local chatter and maybe have ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By gnathan | Views [213] | Scholarship Entry
The day my grandmother died, I thought of mango. A language barrier—she spoke only Tamil, and mine was broken at best—made conversation tough, so on my childhood visits to India we would sit and speak the quiet language of fruit. She carved up mangoes ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By anteeka | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry
Many friends of mine got an arranged marriage in their 14. yet, I was so into studying, especially in English class. My English teacher said that the language would be very important in the future. I could work or apply for an overseas scholarship for ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By elisastrips | Views [238] | Scholarship Entry
AMDABADAMDABADAMDABAD!!! The driver’s shout woke me up at 5 a.m. in a an old, dusty bus after a 10 hour journey from Rajasthan. Instinctively I grabbed my backpack and jumped off the bus wondering where I was. The market was coming alive and streets ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By alexia_kalaitzi | Views [158] | Scholarship Entry
Useful tip: Listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1651Wy3wO4&feature=relmfu during reading. He was waiting for me at Eminönü, near Bosporus. We were decided to break stereotypes: a Turkish guy and a Greek girl visiting together the largest city of ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By leiofearth | Views [151] | Scholarship Entry
The Sacred Beyond Kali is all raging black arms and lolling red tongue. She is hungry. Kali wants sacrifice, and here at the Dakshin Kali Temple in a misty gorge just outside Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, hundreds of pilgrims await on a Saturday at ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jiemin | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry
I have never expected to pay for a vacation to torture myself. But as it turns out, this is no ordinary trip. It all began because of AirAsia. My friend Yune and I could not resist the zero flight fare to Medan. What could go wrong? We could just fly ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By lisbon | Views [178] | Scholarship Entry
Every time I visit Lisbon I come here to sit on the Esplanada do Adamastor.I get there in the afternoon and stay until dark.The Esplanada is a viewpoint, a miraodouro, which means literally translated “watch gold”. And that is the secret of those places ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By daveontherun | Views [154] | Scholarship Entry
Stars pierced their way through a yielding sunset as our captain directed the prow towards the open ocean. I say captain, but in truth a young boy at the rudder of a 40 ft wooden pirogue instills less confidence than I would have liked. Somewhere a few ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By lemacomber | Views [180] | Scholarship Entry
Nary’s Kitchen The percussive sound of cooking makes me feel as if we’re making music, not food. The thrum of Nary’s hot plate as it comes to life. The pop of heating oil, the thwack of my knife mincing the turmeric that turns my fingertips to gold. ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By fatimah | Views [124] | Scholarship Entry
Her white hair is tightly pulled back by a dazzling scarf in red, blue and green; the contrast stark against the bleakness of a brutal winter morning. She reties it, revealing eyes aged from hardship and hurt; from stories of loss and love. Her back bent ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By cgmv | Views [128] | Scholarship Entry
While backpacking in Europe some years ago I had the brilliant idea of extend my trip and make an out of the blue visit to Morocco. Being a 19 year old traveling in Europe with a bunch of party backpackers is one thing, facing Africa for the first time ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By amanjotkaur | Views [130] | Scholarship Entry
Afternoons in Saint Louis are a languid affair: with stomachs packed tightly with theiboudienne and the heat making movement too much to bear, mothers sit in their cotton boubous on plastic chairs on their open porches, brewing tea or potent bissap over ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By edwinoak | Views [132] | Scholarship Entry
It is his birthday in this marble temple room. In an alcove, a five-foot raised platform protects a statue of a boy shooting a mischievous smile. He is said to have been found by a 16th century saint. A harmonium undulates through incense and buttery ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By detoiamoi | Views [139] | Scholarship Entry
It was just like in one of One´s Republic song ¨Good life¨. I woke up in this amazing city. The difference it´s that I didn´t wake up in London, but in Barcelona. The city was exactly how I imagined it. Or even better: it was just like Carlos Ruiz Zafón ... Read more >
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