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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By hanjallen | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry
That haze of Paris in an autumn heat wave, air hanging heavy as a crinoline dress. The world seems still, for once—too bogged down for even a city built on the banks of a primeval marsh, the Marais, the 4eme arrondissement. Gothic spires pierce the ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By paradigm | Views [382] | Scholarship Entry
When I was trying to live with the environment that I should understand what is the possibility will happen. In this case there are several paradigms which different one and others. I know, all people in the world have kinds of thinking about some matters.... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By nickyh | Views [156] | Scholarship Entry
Amantani Island sits like a precarious half-bubble on Lake Titicaca. In the hazy chill of first light, yellow rays are splayed and shot above the earth’s curve, lighting the icy jagged peaks of the Cordilleras. The light wakes the donkeys, setting one ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By jessiebelle | Views [225] | Scholarship Entry
I shield my eyes from the blinding sun reflecting off once fertile grounds. I gaze over the adjacent Crescent Moon Lake in the middle of the Gobi Desert’s Ming Sha Sand Dunes, a fresh water source that has persisted for over 2000 years among the shifting ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By mimiontheroad | Views [205] | Scholarship Entry
I reluctantly stayed at a proper hotel, where mice weren't running across the shelves and the rooms didn’t smell like a cellar. But eating at the hotel was out of question, too fancy, too expensive, and wrong: one must find real India, where a meal is ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By cosmicyoruba | Views [168] | Scholarship Entry
Spending Christmas in Accra was a major incident for me because it was my first trip to an African city outside the country I was born in, Nigeria. Growing up in Nigeria, I was privy to the rivalry between Ghana and my home country. This friction was ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By adora | Views [468] | Scholarship Entry
New Years Day, I awoke to blissful chanting from nearby temples that surround a small village in Thong Pha Plum, Thailand. Intrigued and curious, I jump to my feet to explore this alluring mysterious vibrating melody. With every cautious step, not a soul ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By roamingllama | Views [180] | Scholarship Entry
Sunrise, and the mountains are changing through a wardrobe of colour; from a soft blue through baby pink to bright orange, before settling into shining silver. I'm on the border of Sikkim, Bengal and Nepal in the middle of the Singalila trek. The Kachendzonga ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By mulberryst | Views [184] | Scholarship Entry
I burst through the door of the lodge and collapsed on the bench in the communal dining room. I sobbed, hard. In the Khumbu region in Nepal, at almost 5,000 meter in elevation, my head had been pounding for the last few days. I was angry at myself because ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By despina | Views [183] | Scholarship Entry
A few years ago my family and I relocated to Cyprus. I had grown up in Melbourne, Australia and had got used to slathering Vegemite on my toast and eating hot-cross buns at Easter. Life seemed pretty set. But life has a way of making its own plans. Moving ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By nataliacartney | Views [177] | Scholarship Entry
Even the cactus desert had stopped, it was so dry, so cold. The mountains pushed themselves even higher into the sky, the road twisted around the bends and occasional trucks left trails of brown dust behind them. The air is thin, the lack of oxygen shortens ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By rusherza | Views [132] | Scholarship Entry
I had been on the road from Johannesburg to Nairobi for little under two weeks but the effect on me had been profound. Borne by a converted lorry, we made our way through the entangled mesh of cultures and peoples that inhabited this well-trod trail. ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By bheera | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By blackbird | Views [141] | Scholarship Entry
A sultry fog licks along the road as I walk. It kisses my shins and dances away, resettling itself as I pass by the shops not yet open for business. It's early, and we have a big day ahead of us so I take my tea and egg on toast at little corner table ... Read more >
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 | By madmariposa | Views [219] | Scholarship Entry
A still air hangs over this village. We observe the solitude like buddhas, fending off the day’s sweat, hoping a breeze finds its way through the maze of river canyons leading to our secluded perch a hundred feet up. Six of us, from different corners ... Read more >
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