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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By s-overington | Views [150] | Scholarship Entry
One of the earliest lessons I learnt in life was that I shouldn’t trust strangers. With this in mind, jumping on the back of a complete strangers rickety motorbike in a foreign country is generally unadvisable. Yet this was exactly what I found myself ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By karenfarini | Views [261] | Scholarship Entry
We huddled in our camp, its timber structure shielded by the layers of bamboo leaves that our guide, Somchai, had slashed from the trees with his jungle knife. We watched as he wielded it again, more gently this time, and with a more exacting focus ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By antarapain | Views [180] | Scholarship Entry
As I stood outside the Jahangir Art Gallery on a cloudy June afternoon, searching for art work usually displayed by armatures on the pavement art gallery, I heard a voice behind saying - ‘its shut’. Not sure if those words were meant for me I turned ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By vinnyblack | Views [154] | Scholarship Entry
Walking curiously through stalls of vendors, the greasy stench of frying dough and warm caramel slit open my nostrils. Creole lullabies melted the air; lanterns hung from dusty Bedouin tents erected on Cap-Haitian’s old port earlier that night. a chiseled ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By travelmother | Views [195] | Scholarship Entry
What can do a woman having both a desire for traveling and a little child? How many young mothers feel stuck at home? How often they hear that they should settle down and think only of a baby? Forget prejudices and lets try an adventure! Remember, your ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By diemmyth | Views [160] | Scholarship Entry
Anyone not having been to America may be obsessed by Hollywood films and TV documentaries of an enormous country with bright cities, fast-paced people, and lots of entertainment . It is the dream for many folk. I was not out of the trend longing for a ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sihombing | Views [138] | Scholarship Entry
When I had been in Singapore, It was begun as I walked firstly at Changi Airport. Changi is the wonderful airport that I ever seen. it's neat and comfortable. When I was walking to get the baggage claim, I was surprised that every man who was walking ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By maheenhassanmalik | Views [120] | Scholarship Entry
At an Arabian restaurant by the shore in Jeddah, our order arrived just when I was fretting over not knowing Arabic in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). My disappointment, however, started fading as the sizzling sheesh tawouk was being placed; a feeling ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By evazueva | Views [162] | Scholarship Entry
In the 50th or more time automatically writing the statement of ’99 c’ on a brown bag for roasted peanuts I caught myself on one interesting thought. Why do we like to eat 99 cent peanuts, wear $ n.99 jeans, drive a $ n000.99 car? What means this small ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By joshncooper | Views [145] | Scholarship Entry
As night falls, in the shadow of the imposing Id-Kah Mosque, the market square of Kashgar explodes into life. Street vendors surround the cobbled square and filter off into a labyrinth of dusty alleyways behind. Donkey-carts line the streets, wielding ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By perumbu | Views [79] | Scholarship Entry
There are things you can count in, and there are some you can’t. While you can count Indonesia's islands, which consist of 13.487 island, it is almost impossible to count Indonesian food diversity. When I say impossible, it is literally. Take an example:... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ammel | Views [268] | Scholarship Entry
Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be traveling as a tourist. Traveling in another’s land pursuing pleasure based on a monetary economy is an ethical question. However, if you’re surrounded by a bunch of burly men at their local liquor store muttering about ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By cismithphoto | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
Never look a hunting dog in the eyes. It is a sign of aggression and can lead to attack. Knowing that, I stare straight ahead while our heads bobbed in the bed of the truck to the bumps in the rainforest road. Tina, a Wolfhound-Pit bull mix, is at eye ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By rachelshapiro | Views [108] | Scholarship Entry
I entered the woman’s section of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem to see a crumbling brown wall. Under normal circumstances that wouldn’t be cause for much excitement. But this wall was special because it was the only remaining section of what had once ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By moyva | Views [114] | Scholarship Entry
A Westerner who has ever been to Japan has probably felt both admiration and uncertainty when encountering traditional Japanese confectionery, wagashi, for the first time. The sweets look like, well, not like what one usually expects from a sweet. Sometimes ... Read more >
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