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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By bkramer88 | Views [598] | Scholarship Entry

I’m not entirely sure what possessed me to opt for a three day bus trip over a flight. I lie, it was purely money. I had more time than it, so a lengthy road journey seemed like simply an adventure for my future self to brag about it. I didn’t consider ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Understanding a Culture through Food

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By take_off | Views [350] | Scholarship Entry

No way. They must be kidding me. How on earth could those guys just shovel in mountains of picadillo wrapped in a corn pancake so rapidly? That is the baffling thought zipping through my mind back and forward at the sight of Mexican chaps having lunch ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By shendraw | Views [186] | Scholarship Entry

In one of the coldest Siberian days in January me and my fiancée were ready to leave all our problems in Russia and fly to sunny United Arabian Emirates. Our plane took off and brought us to mysterious Arabian country… I’m not going to describe my first ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Understanding a Culture through Food

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By sriparna | Views [172] | Scholarship Entry

Jassi’s Lassi The gentle grrring sound subtly overrides the rattle of the primitive fan as it laboriously orbits in a bid to dissipate the stifling heat that had laid siege to the farmhouse sitting on a bed of thriving green. Outside the tightly-shuttered ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Understanding a Culture through Food

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By asterix | Views [211] | Scholarship Entry

I moved through one of the many Khau Gallis (Eat Streets) scattered all over Mumbai in search for food that would be cheap enough for me to eat and clean enough for me to endure. I was hungry after a day of roaming around in Mumbai and broke after spending ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By jm13colombiano | Views [197] | Scholarship Entry

Colombia will soon give its cry of Freedom, for Democracy and Peace We must do everything possible to socialist zombies apararescan not using the name of Bolivar for alleged social struggle, it looks closer to Cuba with his intellectual and material poverty, ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By mxcurious | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry

I get out of a cab in what seems to be the antithesis of the place I just left. I’m in the Chiapas highlands, southern Mexico, and I spent a lovely morning eating hand made tortillas, drinking pox, a very strong cane liquor, and talking to the local ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By steven | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry

We'd just arrived in Hanoi and were keen to see the infamous Hoa La prison, described in our guide book as the “Hanoi Hilton”, where captured American soldiers were detained in the Vietnam war. Being new to the travelling game, I simply hailed a passing ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By richardmmeade | Views [123] | Scholarship Entry

Our adventure had begun. We were flying down the highway with the wind in our hair, precariously perched among the bodies & baggage on the roof of our bus. As the rice terraces zipped past all our everyday constraints were blown away and we began to feel ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By hikari | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry

April 22-24th 2011, I & my friends traveled to Mt. Gede,West Java. Because this was my first climb, I was so excited. The ascent began at 18:30. The selected path was the path in “Jalur Putri”because this path was the shortest path among the other tracks.... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Understanding a Culture through Food

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By meandmyjourney | Views [116] | Scholarship Entry

Everyone is unique. Every country, city, their people, their custom will bring unique stories and experiences that we might never forget about it for the rest of our life. Traveling around the world has been one of biggest dreams since i was a kid. Seeing ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Understanding a Culture through Food

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By tree | Views [120] | Scholarship Entry

For the Maasai, cattle are everything: food, material, culture, ritual. Cattle are life. "I hope your cattle are well", they say in greeting. More than any other Kenyan people, the pastoralist Maasai are a cattle-herders par excellence. Cattle provide ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By azilyazilya | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry

Mother told me,by meeting people in places,I’ll learn many things by them.She said it then,to persuate me,to move to a small town in northern side of Aceh,Indonesia,this place is called Lhoksukon.Lhoksukon has been entrusted to be the capital of North ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Giving back on the road

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By mau | Views [371] | Scholarship Entry

Orphanage Revolution Some time ago, in the birthplace of Lord Buddha, the white man arrived. It began with the hippie movement, when artists came to get inspired; it continued with the quest to conquer the roof of the world; it evolved to a stop in ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By intrepidgirl | Views [152] | Scholarship Entry

“Please! Luke! Turn around!” I've hit the wall. I'm broken. I don't want to walk anymore. My brother and I are walking 325km through Thailand in memory of WWII prisoners of war who built the Thai-Burma railway. Today Luke is about one kilometre ahead ... Read more >

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