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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By ralf | Views [827] | Scholarship Entry

After we were done with the research, Jakub and I decided to go to Perucica National Park. We found a driver in a local pub, and he took us to a beautiful viewing spot. High mountains in front of us, snow on the top, endless fir forest all around. In ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By rinasilvana | Views [825] | Scholarship Entry

On January 2012 I went to Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Jogjakarta is a very cultured city and the customary still very strong. What caught my attention much in Jogjakarta is Malioboro street. Many sellers sell their stuff in some kind of booth/stand along ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By daretocrosstheline | Views [773] | Scholarship Entry

The sun was shining on the widowed sky.We walked all day,visiting and meeting impressive people,but when we stopped for our last visit,the view made us forget all the. From the burning land an ancient city was rising in front of our eyes.It was imposing,beautiful ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By sadiekadlec | Views [998] | Scholarship Entry

Shortly after arriving in Thies I wandered off alone for the first time. The city never seemed too fierce and Senegal was constantly being toted as the country of hospitality. Yet, as a woman I was often warned to be cautious. Against all this, I found ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Understanding a Culture through Food

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By jjones | Views [850] | Scholarship Entry

I didn’t expect to have cheesecake and dulce de leche, smashed into my face by an Argentinean Producer in an elegant art gallery at 1.30am. Always expect the unexpected, in a city like Buenos Aires. I was at the city’s fashionable new dining experience, ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Understanding a Culture through Food

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By katecaroline | Views [674] | Scholarship Entry

As I walk through the medina, otherwise known as the old city, in Rabat, I am on the lookout for a vendor with his heaps of spices, from whom I can buy what I need to make tajine for tonight’s dinner. I find him in his little booth and I ask him for the ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By manaamin | Views [593] | Scholarship Entry

Cats with dirt-clotted fur sift through mounds of garbage haphazardly discarded next to a suburban road. I can hear the clapping of sandals on marble stairs as the call to prayer stretches over Madinat Al Nasr. Soon I will soon see kufied-men hurrying ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By greener6891 | Views [641] | Scholarship Entry

I find myself under the towering pilings of a bridge connecting the two halves of Harbin, China’s northernmost capital. The frozen arm of the Songhua River stretches before me. My eyes clatter over a surface littered with ice chunks to reach the buildings ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By husnahk | Views [580] | Scholarship Entry

I woke up in my family’s hotel room at the Bayview Resort on August 19, 2000, in Penang, Malaysia. There was a terrible thunderstorm the day before that had prevented my family from leaving the hotel room. Thankfully, the skies were clear and cloudless ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Giving back on the road

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By thearchetypalwanderer | Views [524] | Scholarship Entry

It was years ago when I was set off from my home country Turkey southbound to Egypt. Though it was not a huge abstraction from my own culture, which is Islamic, I was unaware the destiny shaped by the abysmal discrepancy of Egypt. So I deserted the tumultuous ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Understanding a Culture through Food

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By zagary | Views [743] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry

The syrup-sweet chai exhales loving tendrils over our cheeks and lips in the crisp mountain air. We sit cross-legged in the dusty courtyard clasping chipped, fist-sized mugs and take our first sips in unison. My eyes meet the sun-lined face of the middle-... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Giving back on the road

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By cambodian | Views [789] | Scholarship Entry

My adventure trip is started on 13th night to 17th of April 2012 while Songkran festival. I arrived to Cambodia on 14th afternoon. I was in Siem Reap. I had know one man who can speak English and he wanted to be my guide to cultural study here. I said ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By amitkiri | Views [678] | Scholarship Entry

Generations come and generations go. And this planet spins around. What makes me or you or us so special then? As for physicists, different planets would make a galaxy and many galaxies the universe, for me are the worlds within this world. One may call ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By krystsina | Views [539] | Scholarship Entry

Colorful women around. Inquisitive men watching me like TV. Cute and dirty children begging for food and money. The smells of exhaust fumes, pee and incense mixed together. Horns beeping frantically. The whole family riding one bike. The sun shining ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By katiefeldhaus | Views [610] | Scholarship Entry

When people think of Greece they usually picture beautiful people sipping drinks on even more beautiful beaches. This is a very prominent part of the country’s intrigue, but my experience was much more fulfilling than a bottle of Ouzo. I attended an international ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By leaping | Views [915] | Scholarship Entry

April 21. When the bus trip is well with the constantly changing images through the window it becomes difficult to get concentrated, but it is also difficult to ignore the stories landscapes always have. I went to Bogota to visit “The International ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By paulizard | Views [606] | Scholarship Entry

She speaks without moving her lips, she follows you with her immovable look and gives you a warning sing without even needing to lift any of her limbs. The first time i saw her she was wearing an embroidered dress made with white thread covered with ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - Understanding a Culture through Food

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By izvormoj | Views [632] | Scholarship Entry

Last year I busted my beautiful behind working like crazy so that I could go on a trip with my partner. I am originally from Novi Sad, Serbia,. but I am currently living in Zagreb, and seeing as the coast of Croatia is gorgeous, we decided to go to the ... Read more >

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My Scholarship entry - A local encounter that changed my life

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By haha | Views [694] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry

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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By varela | Views [601] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry

The children of the black market are blurs of a marginalized population. They have managed to support themselves in spite of a law that denies the righteousness of their efforts. They live in a labyrinth with no rules. They fly and they sleep when no ... Read more >

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