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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By travelbug77 | Views [260] | Scholarship Entry
Salivating in Sri Lanka Making my way down the tiled stairs my clothes cling to me in sudden sweat like the heat of an inescapable wet jungle. Passing the family shrine of Buddha Shakyamuni, my nostrils fill with the familiar sweet flowery perfume of ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By mymonoarfa_journal | Views [339] | Scholarship Entry
Culinary experience during my three days in Malaysia gave me lessons on diversity presented through food. I spent my first day with shopping at Bukit Bintang area which is renowned as a shopping paradise. area covered by the mall and stores it's very ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By shaya | Views [298] | Scholarship Entry
Sitting back in the classroom I knew so well, I stared sadly at my atlas wondering why I had believed its lies merely two weeks earlier. I knew it did not represent the reality of the Amazon. Not at all. I had been there; the majestic river was only hiding ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By travelatude | Views [217] | Scholarship Entry
In a remote mountain village, people still live the hard life of shepherds according to centuries old local tradition. I stumbled on Lukomir while researching a trip to Bosnia. Seeing pictures of stone homes, outhouses and wizened people in regional ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By reiserin | Views [202] | Scholarship Entry
After a week in Vietnam I was getting ready for what I believed would be one of the best places of my trip: Ha Long Bay. That night I was to stay at Cat Ba Island and the next day I would leave to Ha Long. I had a whole afternoon there, so I went out ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By drawer | Views [277] | Scholarship Entry
MOHAMED When I first met him, at his tent by the desert of Dahab, Sinai, what impressed me the most was his Bedouin definition of nationality: the territory wasn´t related to actual boundaries like ours but to the act of moving. As we advanced in a three ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By sophied | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry
I come to see cobblestone lanes of London Bridge swallowed by the free time of the people, born on days like this. Spilling out under fleeting trains and overlooking eyes, sometimes meeting mine before fast leaving me to a broken walkers pace. Pavilions ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By cjnadeau | Views [200] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
I steered my bike around the leftover puddles the sun had forgotten to evaporate and headed twelve miles to the train station. I wove through the small town streets of Massachusetts with only my trusted Google directions. Mom and Pop bakeries, chipped ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By onefastmove | Views [148] | Scholarship Entry
Andrei and I stepped outside into the unseasonably cool August night. Lights glowed in the little windows of the cottages that lined the rutted dirt road. All was quiet. The breeze carried the smell of fresh bread and milk. It was my fourth night in ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By ahmad-moeenuddin | Views [150] | Scholarship Entry
“I am a hooker,” she said, whilst sipping on her tea. She said it with so much ease; not a blink of an eye, or any evident facial expression, putting the cup of tea aside on the carpeted floor of her council house, and lighting a cigarette, giving me ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By phillippar | Views [439] | Scholarship Entry
'Waste not, want not.' A phrase I've heard countless times from my grandmother. Something that I never fully understood until the day I ate my lunch out of a banana leaf. Sweat beads trickled down my temples. My legs shook slightly under each step, shoulders ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By ditzydiver | Views [197] | Scholarship Entry
‘Welcome to East Timor, here is your accommodation,’ was my greeting. ‘Everything else is self explanatory, Oh, by the way there are also mosquitoes, centipedes, and cockroaches in the bath, and an emptied out hand grenade as a candle holder for the power ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By laurabuttigieg | Views [172] | Scholarship Entry
The heat is fierce, almost suffocating. Six hundred threads of Egyptian cotton cling to sweating, tanned skin. The resting place of my camel becomes a distant memory now fading into the smells of shisha dancing in the air. Scents of cinnamon flaunt with ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By rinassanctuary | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry
When I was elementary school, my father and I went to Kuningan for attending wedding party. Kuningan was one of town in West Java, Indonesia. My father and I went there by private car. Since our house was far from Kuningan , we had to go there in early ... Read more >
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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By fdelara | Views [122] | Scholarship Entry
“Indonesian.” Without looking up from the guide map, I knew the murmurs were about me. Here in India, the farthest away I’ve been from the Philippines, I already lost count on the number of times I was mistaken as a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, whether ... Read more >
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