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FRANCE | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By pips | Views [780] | Scholarship Entry
It took me an hour to walk up that hill: a pilgrimage of no mean size! At least it was a pleasant one under the shade of a forest of trees. The road slowly wound up the hill with many twists and turns making it difficult to judge how much further I had ... Read more >
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USA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By solublereader | Views [711] | Scholarship Entry
Posing for photos with my friend, Sarah, in over-sized snorkels, as our boat skims over aquamarine depths of fluctuating, endless Caribbean, we progress onward. . Here on the island, locals smile at us without rushing to leave. Their faces, though some ... Read more >
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BRAZIL | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By worthyventures | Views [694] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Skol in the morning: another beer to fill my half-empty stomach. On cobblestones my dirty tennis shoes wobble across uneven planes, gripping desperately the flatter surfaces. Distant drumming fills my ears, my heart; it becomes my pulse. It’s a Wednesday—not ... Read more >
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ISRAEL | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By aeileenr | Views [9395] | Comments [7] | Scholarship Entry
We pushed through the Arab Quarter and focused on the dusty ground, avoiding eye contact with anyone as if that would disguise us. It didn’t. One elderly Muslim man with a turban spat at us, his face taut with anger; another yelled profanities in Hebrew ... Read more >
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ITALY | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By mommaliz | Views [284] | Scholarship Entry
“Chee-no-da-da-da-da-ming-no-da-da-da-da-la-laaa.” The chanting in Japanese lasted for 30 minutes. Like the other 15 adults in this living room in Perugia, Italy, my hostess held a little white book containing a collection of Japanese mantras with the ... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By hanhminhthinks | Views [275] | Scholarship Entry
20km of riding a motorbike without knowing the way was not the hardest part of our trip. What bothered me after the trip and ingrained it into my mind was a child’s begging, and that I refused her. Earlier that morning, we were so sure that the tombs ... Read more >
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UNITED KINGDOM | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By blood | Views [1480] | Comments [3] | Scholarship Entry
He says he likes my stories. That people with faces he’s never known, and places he has never seen, are interesting, because they come from me. Jack is my life support, the only person who cared when I found myself in a foreign land, my father’s land, ... Read more >
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VENEZUELA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By edsonlg | Views [1528] | Scholarship Entry
Over 40,000 bolts ripped across the night sky. I sat up in the hammock, hugged my knees, and awed at the relentless lightning cracking like a whip from cloud to cloud. No rain followed. The indigenous people here call it “rib-a-ba,” or “river fire in ... Read more >
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USA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By man_unstuck | Views [335] | Scholarship Entry
I had retreated into a Corner of Gulu, Uganda, believing a redundant schedule of waking up late, reading paperbacks under an impossibly blue sky, and wandering from one souvenir store to another constituted “living.” Hesitant to leave this Corner, I frowned ... Read more >
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MOROCCO | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By iamypaterson | Views [317] | Scholarship Entry
The naked woman beckons to me from the end of the passageway. Clutching my towel to my chest with one hand, I use the other to awkwardly lean down and pick up my bucket before shuffling towards her. Wrought iron lanterns illuminate the path ahead with ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By maria_nz | Views [365] | Scholarship Entry
Slumped on the airport floor, I was trying to find comfort in my early, Dulce de leche birthday cake. Sixth hour, forth phone card in, but couldn’t reach the hostel. If I’d been a seasoned traveller, I would’ve written down the address. But I was 19 and ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By sarah-heubner | Views [210] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
13th September 2013. This date marks the day my trusty travel sidekick Mia and I attempted to hike from Zermatt to Hörnlihütte.? This escapade all began with a conversation with a scruffy looking nomad in our cheap dorm room the night before. He told ... Read more >
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TANZANIA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By jazsnt | Views [390] | Scholarship Entry
I remember the first time we went out into the city of Arusha in Tanzania. It was so different from the calm and lush tropical landscape of the Imbaseni village. I was 20 years old then. I was participating in a global scholar internship for the summer ... Read more >
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USA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By vcgirvin | Views [380] | Scholarship Entry
Lights make our modern world shine from the heavens, and we have mastered the art of illumination in thousands of ways to allow us to live life when the sun is farthest from our view. Yet, for all of the scientific mastery that we have imposed upon the ... Read more >
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THAILAND | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By kasial | Views [318] | Scholarship Entry
Ok I'll admit that I am not supposed to be doing this. Those arms, those legs, loaded with power, those washboard abs... Concentrate on the game! This is the Lumpinee Boxing Stadium, and I am at a Muay Thai fight night. I am also with my parents and ... Read more >
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By zita_whalley | Views [431] | Scholarship Entry
Melancholy hangs in the cold winter air. The biting -27’C wind permeates my clothes, my bones and the ground I tread as I navigate my way down the main street of Khuzhir, the principal but tiny township of Olkhon Island. Beyond Moscow’s halo of smog and ... Read more >
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USA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By amymarie | Views [235] | Scholarship Entry
After a week of basement-flooding, subway-car-stranding summer rain, the air is heavy, the heat is oppressive, and I need a break from my questionable room-painting project—fumes and fruit flies drive me to seek the air-conditioned comfort of Jimmy’s ... Read more >
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HUNGARY | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By traveltipjar | Views [489] | Scholarship Entry
Though just two blocks from Budapest's bustling Opera district, the only occupants that Sunday afternoon on Hegedu Street were the four mannequins staring down at me from the second floor balcony. In white jumpsuits they looked chic, grotesque even, like ... Read more >
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CHINA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By aimei_leau | Views [206] | Scholarship Entry
Between Hong Kong and mainland China is a long highway with a series of stops and checkpoints. The landscape of vine-wrapped bridges and buildings, strangely flat yet verdant with green and white, passes with a strange dreaminess accompanied by the breathy ... Read more >
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CANADA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By j_jablonski | Views [344] | Scholarship Entry
The farmhouse is a relief as I step out of the tree line and into an overgrown field with my family. As I hurry toward it ahead of the others the building is obviously not the salvation we had hoped it might be. The paint has long since worn off, either ... Read more >
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