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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By katiauld | Views [251] | Scholarship Entry
Cassava nsima is the stickiest thing I have encountered in this life: worse than chewing gum, or wood glue, or prejudice. After coaxing the porridge to a boil over a fire, I am taught to clutch the pot with the soles of my feet and twist the cooking stick ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By vkoski | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
It’s three o’clock in the morning as I sit in the Cafe du Monde with my new friends, overwhelmed by everything I’ve seen and trying to find the beignet from the mountain of powdered sugar on my plate. As I comment about it while continuing my sugarological ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ecoutopismi | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
The illusion of knowing a place, of understanding a different way of life; foreign roads, unfamiliar expressions, new sounds and new smells in the air. An immersion of few days in a different world that in reality it's just a light contact with the surface ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By simonsays | Views [119] | Scholarship Entry
There is a beautiful quote by Goethe: “one must ask children and birds how strawberries and cherries taste.” It’s a romantic reminder to look at a world in a new light. It did not take a child or a bird to remind me of this, but a 6ft siren that went ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By matej | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
Seated on a low step, legs extended over refurbished Ottoman-era cobblestone, I had an ideal vantage point to look out and up at the figures beginning to populate Sarajevo’s Bašcaršija as darkness fell on one of the last days of Ramadan. What had been ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By slp | Views [117] | Scholarship Entry
Autumn 2010, I travelled alone from Kuala Lumpur to Gothenburg and my journey as an international student began. Besides cultural shock, I also have to deal with the issue of food. Back in Asia, be it fast food, night markets, deliveries or even fine ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By theredheadedtraveler | Views [136] | Scholarship Entry
The austere look of the school had been transformed into a myriad of enticing colors.The children at the orphanage where I am volunteering are anxious to share the memory of their loved ones with visitors such as myself.In my culture death is regarded ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By thecatchmeifyoucan | Views [224] | Scholarship Entry
Dassa-Zoume, Benin is a “city” on the north-south road that is the main artery of this small country. On day 3 of a 5-month stint, we sat down at a table at a bustling roadside restaurant. I looked to my left and saw the muscular arms of a petite woman ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sudha | Views [121] | Scholarship Entry
The first time I ate breakfast in Turkey I knew that this could be the healthiest country I’ve visited. And nothing has changed my mind after that. My husband and I had landed in Cappadocia after a twenty-hour journey. I had no expectations after an indifferent ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By wanderlustwheel | Views [240] | Scholarship Entry
Firefly watching. It is the promise of fantastic insect fireworks that brings us from Puerto Princesa City to the Iwahig River. The trip takes about an hour, long enough to marinate in mosquito repellant. Once at the site, my siblings and I are perplexed ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By tiret | Views [118] | Scholarship Entry
A local encounter that changed my life There are moments in life which are somehow inevitable, just meant to happen to enrich us. An eight-hour stopover in Istanbul when I was travelling from Shanghai to Zagreb for my brothers wedding gave me an opportunity ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By aliceirvin | Views [212] | Scholarship Entry
Bangladesh smells like petroleum and human excrement and fried foods. It’s a distinctive smell that has a way of reaching back at you years later, in airports or walking the streets of some Western city. It’s the smell of the dead and dying. It has a ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By micaela | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry
Under the hood of a blood-red Zimbabwean sky, the compound is hushed to a silence. Men and women cluster in separate groups; children clutch their mothers’ bright kikois. They are all staring at the n’anga, bent as though in meditation. Suddenly he raises ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sgfuchs | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry
Arriving in Mumba, there are three things that strikes me as a total foreigner. The first thing is the Mumbai climate consists of three seasons; humid and hot, humid and temperate, and humid and rainy. Consequently, no matter what time of the year one ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By justinh | Views [162] | Scholarship Entry
I smile as I watch Natasha eagerly paddling her canoe to a nearby village to collect rice. She returns shortly after with a small white bag and some change placed neatly behind her. 10 year old Natasha mastered getting around the rivers near her home ... Read more >
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