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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By jakedcb | Views [262] | Scholarship Entry
First things first, a little context is required. The year is 2008 and two wide eyed high school grads have grown weary waiting for Scotland's unrelenting winter to cease (snow in April!). Having long resisted the tantalising temptation of foreign climes ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By zoroaster | Views [148] | Scholarship Entry
My father is 83. If I remember correctly, I’m in my twenties. Each step I take with him is slower than most, but even in today’s world of “time is money”, we have a blast on the journeys we occasionally share together. The relative speed of cultural ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By ktesterman | Views [179] | Scholarship Entry
I never could have guessed how I would find myself in France. I was there to study the French language and culture for several months. After a few weeks abroad, I was proud of my heritage but felt more myself in a coastal city of France or in a Parisian ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By graceiousme | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry
I often find myself lusting after those hot July nights with Leo; the ones spent smoking and drinking and talking, draped, half naked on top of each other in Summer's humid breath. It was more than once that I found myself wondering, whilst perched on ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By jefrenolz | Views [224] | Scholarship Entry
I celebrated my 26th birthday with a heavy heart and a hangover, slung on a park bench during a Sunday in March outside the Ecole Militaire in Paris. The whole trip had been a ridiculously romantic filled whiff of a sweet baguette and a tiny cup of Turkish ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By wanderlusterstravel | Views [119] | Scholarship Entry
I searched for inspiration to fulfill my dull life. Looking to be enchanted, swept off my feet in a fairytale. I began with absorbing my surroundings; all the buildings, monuments, cars, language and people were so foreign to me. Wandering down the cobblestone ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By france | Views [172] | Scholarship Entry
I had seen photos and listened to stories about what it would be like to visit such an enchanting country where not only did one of my favorite novelists, Gustave Flaubert, would write but also where my favorite philosopher Rousseau spent the remainder ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By marsanow | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
The first time I saw the Eiffel Tower I fell in love. I thought it was the most beautiful Tower ever created in the history of the universe. Who cares, about the pyramids, they’re just blocks made out of stone, somewhere in the desert. The Eiffel Tower ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By santiago_nocera | Views [1386] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
On Rue Poulet – Chicken Street – at the base of Sacré-Cœur, a poet, his memory fading and his mind a blank page, ran into the street yelling incoherently and dressed in pajamas. Afternoon crowds watched the old man wander down the block. The police picked ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By blue89 | Views [154] | Scholarship Entry
Will attach in email later: Ignore below! The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By twbard | Views [194] | Scholarship Entry
I’ll never forget the day that I realised I wanted to be a travel writer. The doors opened and with a head full of thoughts I shuffled out of the elevator. It had been a hard day. I knew I would rue this trip as one of my worst. The only reason I was ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By onmyfootsteps | Views [251] | Scholarship Entry
I'll never forget the day that I visited France for the first time. It was also my first trip abroad and as a brazilian girl grown in the countryside I was really excited. The trip started in Britanny, a small region north-west of France, dominated by ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By jtiprigan | Views [139] | Scholarship Entry
Few can tell you, aside from a handful of Matisse enthusiasts, where Éretat is on a map. But if you pull up the French town on a Google search you will see sheer white walls that dutifully stand against the thrashing English Channel and an arch of stone ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By egyptianized | Views [313] | Scholarship Entry
... I landed at Paris airport! Finally, I had achieved the dream I had since childhood, Here I'm; or as I thought at that time, Being a youth worker, I applied for a seminar whose topic was even new to me, but it doesn't matter as I love exploring ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By thedocumenteddarling | Views [394] | Scholarship Entry
I'm sure you have all heard it before- girl goes to France, meets French boy, falls in love, gets married and lives happily ever after eating cheese and baguettes. Pretty cliché right? Yep, I had heard it too, but I never imagined that it would happen ... Read more >
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