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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By jennyc | Views [225] | Scholarship Entry
I’ve spent months on the build-up, getting an internship at a magazine telling people all the great things I’m going to do and see, when really I have no idea what I’m doing- am I doing the right thing? As the flight descends through the smog the communist ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By jvirani | Views [208] | Scholarship Entry
In July 2010, I visited Yúnnán which means South of the Clouds in Mandarin. The road from Dali to Zhongdian or Shangri-la is flanked by jewel green fields; farmers in broad round hats, bent over, working their fields. Yúnnán is generally cloudy in the ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By bravetravels | Views [346] | Scholarship Entry
I could hear no other sound except my light footsteps, the clanking of chains as I held on to them for my dear life and the pounding of my heart. My previous excitement waned as I navigated down metal rods haphazardly embedded on a mountain. My emotions ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By queensparta | Views [282] | Scholarship Entry
Coming to China for me was one of the most spontaneous decisions I have ever made in my life. My decision to come here literally happened within 2minutes of a phone conversation; 1 and a half of which was used to discuss details of how to apply for the ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By universalvagabond | Views [175] | Scholarship Entry
I’m standing in a youth hostel, it’s 11pm, pitch black and -30 degrees outside, my phone is dead and I’m in China with limited Mandarin knowledge; oh, and they gave my room away half an hour ago. In that critical half hour, I was instead unceremoniously ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By ebruzgyte | Views [210] | Scholarship Entry
When I first got off the plane, smelled the mixture of different flavors and saw cockroaches running around the streets, I questioned myself how and why did I end up there? It was my choice though, nobody forced me to move to China for 5 months, go out ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By sbeedie | Views [1275] | Scholarship Entry
The vultures arrive at the burial site at the same moment as the convoy of four-wheel drives. They approach from the east, the cars from the west, and the enormous birds take their places in silent vigil on the high crags of the mountainside. The vultures ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By adeela-b | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
Eyes, blackened and burnt, piercing my soul. Tail, upward and curled, ready to sting. Paralyzed, I stand with my mouth wide open and eyes clenched shut while every atom in my body begins dancing to the song of quantum theory. I know in my heart, that ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By blanka | Views [315] | Scholarship Entry
I’ll never forget the day that I walked next to Mehmet, seeing the shining mountain from Charlie Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic. The scene was breathtaking. The lights on the hill looks like thousands of stars, composing a tiny universe on the hill. Dim ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By africankid | Views [213] | Scholarship Entry
Whilst we were still thousands of feet above the ground, my brown eyes were attracted to the glittering silky man-made series of fortifications laid across mountainous stratum covered with green natural features. I glued my eyes to the windows of the ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By lostonpurpose | Views [172] | Scholarship Entry
I had just arrived in Shanghai from an 18-hour soft-seater train from Beijing that I had convinced my hardcore backpacker self would be ‘travel experience’. Slightly scarred from the memories of kittens in cages and an old Cantonese businessman asleep ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By korric | Views [781] | Comments [3]
Right before one of the afternoon training sessions, I saw Master Xu playing with a pair of sticks. Back home I am a fighter for a medieval recreation group called the Society for Creative Anachronism, in which I primarily fight with two swords. We don't ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By shannonperth | Views [253] | Scholarship Entry
The streets of Kunming were buzzing with lights, sounds and smells. It was overwhelming not being able to verbally communicate with people, but with charade- like actions, we managed to find the nearest internet connection. Running on 4 hours sleep from ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By ginakateprince | Views [201] | Scholarship Entry
Standing on a beach in a small fishing town on the coast of the South China Sea, the waves lapping at my ankles as my friends and I watched the sun rise up from the calm, morning waters, I thought to myself, how on earth did I end up here? A girl from ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By e_strong | Views [328] | Scholarship Entry
“What should we bake?” I asked. “Something that’s not typical Chinese,” Lisa said. “Of course, but what?” “Well, how about a cinnamon roll? Cinnamon is a Christmass-y taste, and Spring Festival is like the love child of Christmas and Guy Fawkes, it could ... Read more >
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