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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By fabiosandokan | Views [234] | Scholarship Entry
When I was in Penang, in Malaysia in 2010 for a study exchange programme, I was not aware of the local culture. I was told that there are three different ethnic groups living together and that football and food were the main topics of everyday talk. ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By notes | Views [114] | Scholarship Entry
Warm breeze blew my hair in all directions as we exited the Ho Chi Minh International Airport, but I didn’t feel it. I felt the looks of strangers standing in the heat; sweat dripping down their faces, dark circles under their armpits and the back of ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By scholarshipentry2012 | Views [140] | Scholarship Entry
The stairs on a hallway were full of worn shoes. Inside the first storey a group of people have gathered together. They are all sitting on the floor, against the wall. Their hands are on their laps, palms up. Soon the whole room is filled with Islamic ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By aalarcon | Views [248] | Scholarship Entry
Colombia is world-wide known for three things: 1. Cocaine 2. Pablo Escobar 3. Andres Escobar, the football player who got killed after he made an autogol that eliminated the country from the 1994 World Cup In 2001 my family moved from Bogotá to the ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By burgo | Views [118] | Scholarship Entry
I had no idea what to expect but as soon as I stepped onto the tarmac in Chiang Mai, I suddenly felt like I had entered another realm of existence. I organised a hike in Chiang Mai and meet Om, he was middle-aged fit looking man with long thin hair past ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By elenanikolovska | Views [435] | Scholarship Entry
My destination was the city of Lisbon in beautiful Portugal.Upon arrival to Lisbon, you get overwhelmed.This place is beautiful,no matter where you decide to head for a walk.After seeing the entire city,one morning I got up really early and I decided ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By diptea | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry
An atmosphere of chaos; puny figures sleeping over strewn coins; damp air reeking of urine; hawkers; welcomed me to another journey by Indian railways. After seven hours of bangs and bounces, I landed in a land that can best be described as bizarre. Brown ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By fanymutiawords | Views [194] | Scholarship Entry
You and I can talk,we can reach out and touch each other on the arm and we can see each other, but we can never know exactly what’s going on in the other’s head.Research shows that we normally try to work out how we are viewed by others by thinking about ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By abhi8602 | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
He walked in, a child with a man’s hands, and set the tray of immaculate aromas on the rickety wooden table that our host had graciously provided. Even without the weight of the tray, it groaned and squeaked alternately, and to the imperious crash of ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By dearfrankie | Views [136] | Scholarship Entry
‘All the best chefs in London get their fresh produce there.’ I was told by an ageing Englishman looking up out of under his umbrella. I asked after Borough Market, which felt a little like looking for the Land of Oz until I was informed that it is in ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sabina | Views [217] | Scholarship Entry
I would never expect having a foreign student identity card will save my sightseeing of Vienna. My three hours travel by train from Budapest to Vienna passed in a moment since I was very attracted by the nature. I took out my notebook, and started to ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By lifechallengingexperiencefood | Views [122] | Scholarship Entry
My third day in here, in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. I landed in such a big restaurant. The nuance of Chinese in here is so glorious. Greeted by smell and consecution of much kind Chinese food and decorated with big and bright lantern also lamp look like ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By mis_adventures | Views [111] | Scholarship Entry
They came looking very guilty. It was midday, and they should have been home, helping with the housework. I could see fishermen waiting out in the sea. Some of them were heading back, hauling in the day’s catch, preparing to bring the fish to the local ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By timetravel | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry
I went to Philippines on 2008 with my friend Yesaya.My Filipino friends are a couple. They were not back to Philippines around 3 years.They worked in Thailand before in Indonesia. So they invited us to go to their home in Bulacan. The flight from Changi ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By preciousjem | Views [135] | Scholarship Entry
Rice has always been part of a normal Filipino diet. Filipinos can’t live without rice. We eat our viands or what we call ‘ulam’ with rice. We make pastries and other dishes with it. It has always been part of our meals—breakfast, lunch and dinner, ... Read more >
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