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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By xanthe | Views [233] | Scholarship Entry
I've never felt as different, as alien, as foreign, as much of an outsider as I did on that beach in Mozambique. It was early January, mid summer, and it had been a sweaty, bug infested night in our tiny mustard-yellow tent. I untangled myself from the ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By chom | Views [107] | Scholarship Entry
“I don’t know”, I say, as sunlight catches the edge of a cracked hand mirror, two slices of my face erased by the glare. He places a silver chain with a heavy red pendant around my neck: “How about this, madam?” I laugh, “Absolutely not!” To be polite, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By chioma | Views [145] | Scholarship Entry
Dancing in a flare of sunlight, I squint at the sight of the ladies twirling atop a mobile caravan. Feathery skirts swirl yellow, pink, orange, blue, green on full waists. Hips jiggle to Efik songs. I chant along. Saxes blast, drum beats and ethnic renditions ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By janetljoyce | Views [155] | Scholarship Entry
I wheel my bag, rattling behind me, down an ancient cobbled street. Through a heavy stone arched gate of a walled town, I walk. An ancient place, foundations a thousand years old with a pervading cold perhaps one million - and a modernity that welcomes ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By rjh | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
“Is Bangladesh in Africa?” It’s amazing how experiences can change the way you see the world. When I was asked whether Bangladesh is in Africa, I realised how little people knew about the world. People also think that a country with no growing wealth ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By wobie | Views [178] | Scholarship Entry
In 2010, during a trip to Singapore, my girlfriend, who had lived in Singapore, took me to Little India to buy spices for my chef sister. From our hotel in Balestier Road, we went to Little India through the MRT. It felt like stepping into another ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ifascia | Views [121] | Scholarship Entry
I kept thinking of faraway holiday in the midst of everything just like Liz on Eat, Pray, Love, but to have that now? *Gulp. Then I just followed my step to take the train after my campus finished. Shortly I have reached The Old City, North Jakarta, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By bhaag | Views [156] | Scholarship Entry
Last year, I and my 2 girlfriends decided to sneak off to the mountains on a long weekend. Now I must inform you that for 3 young women, travelling “alone” (read: unaccompanied by a man) is nothing short of ‘scandalous’ (or so I thought) in the Northern ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By akangharyadi | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry
One of valuable moment that I keep in my mind was community service. It is academic program for final year student to implement their capacity through empowerment and enlighten local community. Together with my fellas, we were placing in rural village, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By gypsystrings | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
Cameras click frantically, as cows stare oblivious to obscure announcements of missing children. Marigold littered streets, welcome thousands who visit the Pushkar Camel festival. Troupes of children painted in colors of their favourite gods walk in packs ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By dulceruby | Views [185] | Scholarship Entry
I have yet to travel the world, but I have seen enough to prove to myself that it is all I wish to do. A cross-country move straight out of high school to NYC (the biggest, most lively city I've ever visited), was all it took to see that cultures vary, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By cfkennedy23 | Views [127] | Scholarship Entry
The Bare Necessities A 500 riel ferry ride will sweep you away to Kdei Takoy village- only 10 minutes yet worlds away from the poignant center of Phnom Penh. The land is dry and deserted. A mere dirt road is lined with a single row of intimate wooden ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By mlroa1015 | Views [548] | Scholarship Entry
Pots clanking, pans tinkering and chatter. Fresh greens and edible leaves are soldiers to be thrown into the casserole battle. Spices on the rack are and in the jars of hope for a flavor victory. A repertoire of gastronomic presentation. It is the feast ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By l_explorateur | Views [192] | Scholarship Entry
My considerate mother designed the whole Malaysia tour so that I could recuperate after the deadly accident I had met with earlier in the year. This accident left me on crutches for consecutive ten months. I gradually developed a misanthropic feeling ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By live_the_journey | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry
Wake Up and Taste the Journey The train screeches and I am jolted back to reality. Stiff against the wooden bench, I find myself on an alarmingly lopsided rusty train beside a greasy-haired Burmese man. He smiles a grin of rotten red teeth, a bleeding ... Read more >
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