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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jzukas | Views [148] | Scholarship Entry
At 5.30am the sweet birdsong is interrupted by the squeal of a Nokia. Morning light is beginning to creep its way through the wide-open windows of my boiling hot room. 'Hello' I manage in an alien croak. 'Hi! Josh! I am outside your house! Come down ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By nettie | Views [143] | Scholarship Entry
And suddenly everything went pitch-black in our double room... Due to the electricity black-out hotel guests gather on the balcony, where the last sun rays of the day make the evening more enjoyable. We start talking to Omar, who grew up in Samaná but ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By thejourney | Views [177] | Scholarship Entry
It always made it to my “Bucket list”. Never did I imagine that I would do it for real. It all happened on my first trip to South Africa. Apart from being a melting pot of different cultures or the home to the unique and varied flora and fauna, South ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By homesickfoods | Views [938] | Scholarship Entry
“Rachid’s father is dead,” my neighbor Fatima told me as we hung laundry on our rooftop. She pulled a damp teddy bear from her pail, pinning it to the line by its oversized ears. “You should pay your respects. That’s his house, just there.” She pointed ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By alemanjarrez | Views [109] | Scholarship Entry
Coming from Mexico, a warm country of colourful dishes flavoured with multiple spices and herbs, I was neither excited about food nor about Dutch weather when I first arrived to the Netherlands on a cold November morning. Luckily, I soon realized how ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By phualiling | Views [187] | Scholarship Entry
The buffalo lies in a pool of its own blood, bright red under the glaring morning sun, centimetres away from its head. Two dogs savour the blood around the beheaded animal like a cool treat on a hot summer’s day while locals pad or ride over the ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By icytazmanian | Views [151] | Scholarship Entry
In my other lives, I must have been a nomad because I still have an insatiable urge to travel. I was born on an island in the middle of the Caribbean Sea so my commitment to travel is always tested. As soon as I graduated university and had an income, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By pipali | Views [195] | Scholarship Entry
One of the great pleasures of travel is encountering the unexpected; and when the serendipitous involves new cuisine, this pleasure is quadrupled. My own encounter with Juifun’s gastronomic Diagon Alley was all thanks to a flight cancellation. Taipei ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By worldnomadsscholarship | Views [372] | Scholarship Entry
A neat dollop of potently pink shrimp paste, glistening red chilli slivers, finely diced garlic and galangal, and a handful of cheeky shallots chopped with precision lit up the sterile silver bench, each perfectly portioned into tiny white ramekins. Immaculately ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By luisten | Views [103] | Scholarship Entry
One hundred kilometers per hour. That’s how fast I was riding my motorcycle up the more neglected part of Brazil’s BR-101 highway when the back tire blew out. I was stranded in the middle of nowhere and the only Portuguese I spoke was what I had learned ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By megamondo | Views [108] | Scholarship Entry
In East Timor among the theatre of the Dili market, old brown ladies, mouths grinning clown-red and high on betel nut, gossip over enormous buckets of fresh ground coffee. The oppressive sun warms shimmering bunches of sardines swinging lazily from tamarind ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sri | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry
As the train rolled into Copenhagen Central I once again read the writing on the wall. AggstockGravid spray painted in white against industrial red brick- “Man has the right to do his will.” My bright yellow bus to Budapest was waiting by the curb outside.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By lifeofpye | Views [117] | Scholarship Entry
The fidgety toddler grabbed at the book beside me. Her mother apologised quickly. What was I reading, she asked gently, politely, gauging whether my reaction would be warm. Her eyes lit up at the mention of my theology degree. ‘And do you believe in ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By austengirl | Views [169] | Scholarship Entry
My greatest memories of New Zealand are where food and place are tied together. Eating local, freshly gathered produce and participating in the harvesting connected me deeply to a landscape and culture. Valencia Oranges, Kerikeri We arrive at the ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By j-ulysse | Views [101] | Scholarship Entry
Egypt: these beautiful boats called feluccas on the wide, bright sea, the sun rising through the porthole, and the vast sand dunes on the edge of the coast, resembling a herd of waves being pushed on by the wind. The holidays were supposed to be idyllic ... Read more >
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