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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By mldonahue | Views [172] | Scholarship Entry
We barrel down the road, leaving Manos’ farm, hidden in Bozika’s mountains in the Peloponnese. The farm is a microcosm of Bozika, small and eclectic. Amid the olive trees we water and the tomatoes we coat with volcanic dust for pest control, there are ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By swwest | Views [107] | Scholarship Entry
We were traveling along a back road off the Pacific Highway looking for somewhere to camp. After three straight days driving our spirits were scraping the asphalt. The night before had been spent shivering on a gravelly embankment with wet tents and no ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By hltaylor | Views [170] | Scholarship Entry
I clutched my backpack on my lap as the camionetta, or “chicken bus” as it is known to travelers bounced down winding mountain paths at alarming speeds, swerving to miss deep potholes and three-legged dogs. On either side of me were women dressed in traditional ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By chichimochi | Views [166] | Scholarship Entry
When someone asked about Indonesia,what do you remember?do you know rendang?Okay,almost people know what rendang is. Rendang is one of the most delicious foods in the world. And do you know where is rendang from?Yess..rendang from Indonesia. If someone ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By erin_chupeco | Views [250] | Scholarship Entry
She sees my future in the ace of spades. Her fingers are gnarled, knuckles knotted from a lifetime of soothsaying. She owns no fortune teller's salon, only a carboard box she squats behind as she turns over more cards; first the seven of clubs, then ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By hi5 | Views [234] | Scholarship Entry
I always thought that one could never be happy unless he has the good things of life.Travelling down to villages in Nigeria,a shift in modernism and enlightenment to absolute want and deprivation is observed.On our way to a major state in the north (Gigawa ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By walkabout | Views [357] | Scholarship Entry
I am told not to smell it before I eat it, but that's just not possible. Even in a sushi restaurant with dead fish sliding by on conveyor belts it is by far the most pungent scent. I thought that the restaurant had health code issues. The sickly sweet ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By travelblog | Views [198] | Scholarship Entry
Living with same routines and cultures everyday can make someone think that 'the' world is small and moving only around him. But as a matter of fact, it is only 'his' world which is so. For me and most people who live in a city, 'our' world is getting ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By hamilton | Views [239] | Scholarship Entry
“What is palany?” The young Arab man behind the counter at Grand Palace Fast Food offers a puzzled look across his bushy beard. “Palany, pa-lo-nee, polony,” I alter the pronunciation slightly each time. “Is it a kind of meat?” He nods. “It is ground.” ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By jmillerjtm | Views [314] | Scholarship Entry
The muscles in my neck were starting to boil on a slow simmer as I craned my head upwards and around. Dashes of neon blue, smoky red and, ironically enough, halo-gold danced in speckles on my body and backpack. I almost felt intoxicated, like I was ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By emilywrites13 | Views [262] | Scholarship Entry
Many people would rather not know where their hamburger meat comes from, much less their running shoes. On southern China’s Pearl River Delta, however, the ugly effects of supplying the world’s sweatshirts and cell-phones were everywhere I looked. My ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By lindsay1202 | Views [220] | Scholarship Entry
I zigzag through a menagerie. Vendors guffawing; teasing notes of roasted corn and juicy pings of fat from lamb kebab harmonizing; carpets unfurling in the bazaar, puffing dust. Resisting these Sirens warbling to my shrinking wallet and expanding waist, ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By danitrabuchi | Views [162] | Scholarship Entry
The seven hour trip turned out to be an infinite odyssey through enormous floods. Five hours into the journey, the idea of arriving to Meknes during the day was demolished as it was getting dark and I wasn´t even half way there. I started getting really ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By ontheroad | Views [483] | Scholarship Entry
I arrive in the village of Preixan, a small hilltop village 10k outside the city Carcassonne, France, on exceptionally hot day. Priexan was once a busy wine producing cirulcade village established over 1,000 years ago. I’ll be spending the next ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By non-sense-blog | Views [232] | Scholarship Entry
I am sitting in a dark hut full of smoke on a bed made of stone and sheep’s skin. We dropped into Afghan shepherds’ settlement, high in the Pamir mountains on the very end of the Wakhan Corridor - a remote corner of Afghanistan. The only meal we are served ... Read more >
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