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Home is wherever I'm with you

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 | By jamesshanks | Views [5196]

Week 3 Camper Alex: Does everyone in the world have a disability? Me: Yes, everyone is the world has some exceptionality. Everyone is exceptional in their own way. Camper Alex: Like you, you're weird? This is definitely one of the most vivid ... Read more >

Tags: camp, camping, counsellors, exceptionalities, shawnigan, victoria

The adventure of Churchill

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 | By mel_mel | Views [1182] | Comments [2]

So when we spoke last, my dear little readers, I was sitting calmly in the Radisson hotel, procrastinating, I believe. I didn't want to walk to the train station. Well. If your name is Tess, you know what's coming up. If not, sit back and get ready to, ... Read more >

Tags: Misadventures

Home

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 | By shrummer16 | Views [971] | Comments [1]

Home. It's quite a meaningful concept, isn't it? It could be where a young mother brings her newborn, swathed in all the tenderness of the world. It could be where a teacher tells a terrified student to bring his report card. It could be the one thing ... Read more >

Whistler - the beginning

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 | By sdicko101 | Views [960]

Whistler 15th October 2010 It was a cold crisp morning in Vancouver as I jumped on the Greyhound for the 2hr 45min journey up to Whistler, the bus was virtually empty besides a couple of other making the religious journey up to the mountain at this ... Read more >

Tags: adventure, canada, partying, snow, snowboard, trekking, whistler, winter

Butterflies

Tue, 8 Jan 2008 | By surfveza | Views [695]

19 days till I leave, and I have been a little emotional lately. It was a rough week with my parents, I know they they only worry because they love me, but that is making it really hard on me. My mom doesn't take these kind of things easily, by that ... Read more >

Tags: The Planning Phase

Banff

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 | By sarah153 | Views [561]

After a month of minus 30 degree weather, searching for jobs and facing the very real possibility I wouldn't have anywhere to sleep on New Years Eve, everything finall fell into place, two days before Christmas. Louisa was offered a job at one of the ... Read more >

First Post

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 | By zizzie | Views [539]

Today I found out that there may be a strike the day I'm supposed to leave for Nairobi. The airport workers who handle security, admin, check-in etc. are most likely (unless there is a last minute settlement) going to launch a 24-hour strike January ... Read more >

Tags: planes trains & automobiles

the drawing of the end

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 | By stonesamurai | Views [489]

my time in newfoundland is coming to an end. i fly to vancouver on the 27th, and although i'm excited to head back to squamish and to move to asia again, it will be hard to leave this place. owing to the fact that the best part of the last month has ... Read more >

Hear us roar

Sun, 16 Oct 2022 | By compassrose | Views [346]

The wail of an Algonquin chief undulates on the October wind. He launches sorrowful prayer towards a darkening sky. Foam whipped up by waterfall crashes down, battling with the din made by beaver-skin drums. White gulls shriek in reply, as though birds ... Read more >

Tags: canada, ceremony, first nations, indigenous people, industrialisation, waterfall

Windsor: Reel to Real

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 | By film-junkies | Views [318] | Video | Scholarship Entry

We are born film-makers and are put on the earth to do as such. Both of us have worked many menial jobs in our life time, trying to make the money to provide us the opportunities to travel and obtain the equipment to capture our dreams on screen. I grew ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Film Scholarship to Mexico

Bud, Bud Light, Bud with Lime

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By | Views [162] | Scholarship Entry

This was a big dot on the map for us – Harrington Harbour, Quebec aka 50° 30’N, 59° 29’W. The 3 of us had been sailing for a couple of weeks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and hadn't seen people in days. To most, Harrington Harbour would not count as a ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

A 'place' I have visited

Fri, 5 Jul 2013 | By | Flickr Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

My name is Charissa Vandergrift and I would love to travel, experience and contribute to the National Geographic Travel Photography Scholarship of 2013. I need to be honest, I am not a professional photographer nor have I spent a lot of my time aspiring ... Read more >
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Tags: Travel Photography Scholarship 2013