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FRANCE | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By tinapinto | Views [429] | Scholarship Entry
There it was, the Eiffel Tower in all its ordinariness. Having no one to share my lack of excitement, I marched the short walk from the station towards the tower deeply lost in internal conflicts and thoughts of my past. “How much you pay?” yells a young, ... Read more >
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LAOS | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By elisstories | Views [460] | Scholarship Entry
The first impression about Laos was … quite. Vientiane is quite small city, you can see the difference with Bangkok-Khao San Road which is very well-known as backpackers place. I remember when we finally arrived at Vientiane, there was a ceremony held ... Read more >
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NORTH KOREA | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By edsonlg | Views [1297] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
The shutter springs closed with a satisfying snap. "No!" A Korean soldier shouts, lurching forward and abandoning his Taekwando ready-stance while the perpetrator turns the camera over in his hand, marveling at the photograph. The owner only catches a ... Read more >
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By soulmad | Views [217] | Scholarship Entry
The Desyant brothers appeared almost out of a fairytale, intimidatingly friendly as I trudged by, waving their flag and electric currents of humanity, “Paratroops of Good Will” it read. Anton was the first to take my notice, full-beard with a little ... Read more >
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NETHERLANDS | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By marthamutiso | Views [335] | Scholarship Entry
I’m on my way to Newark Airport, my departure from Pennsylvania is bittersweet. I’ve had amazing time here, thanks to my conservation science career, where it all began. I recall Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the place I’ve called home for the last four months;... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By minhhuyennguyen | Views [633] | Scholarship Entry
It’s now a quarter past six pm. I am sitting in a Hanoi old coffee house, listening to a strange jogtrot piece of traditional music. Alone. Notwithstanding this, I love that. Today, I call for a hot cup, because an autumn night is mislaying in the middle ... Read more >
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JAPAN | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By tiaratirr | Views [227] | Scholarship Entry
I ate up my croissants while waiting my friend before we went. I knew it wasn’t enough to fill my energy to walk a lot that day, after the previous day I and other 13 friends from 6 countries went to the bar to have a nomikai as a farewell. We went to ... Read more >
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SOUTH AFRICA | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By jericafromamerica | Views [585] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Her face remained soft and unbothered by the audible calamity of her assault. As she cuts the wood, I ask her what the sign on the wall says. With her eyes still like ponds in tawny enclaves, she cracks down the ax and says, "Bawo Ndiphe Amandla ... Read more >
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UNITED KINGDOM | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By hashemgad | Views [321] | Scholarship Entry
The air was crisp. The clouds blanketed the sky, fractured and fragmented by rays of light which seeped like honey over the silent hills. The dew drenched grass seemed to shimmer as the car pulled up by the pavement. I walked down the gravel path, treading ... Read more >
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PERU | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By kerrycoeshaw | Views [360] | Scholarship Entry
It was November 30th 2012 and I was leaving Iquitos in two hours. I was on a mission driven by unconditional love, to go back to the Amazon rainforest camp that had been home. I was to fetch Woolly Monkey Felipe to take him to Monkey Island where he will ... Read more >
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By bec16 | Views [240] | Scholarship Entry
‘I can’t do this,’ I thought. The idea of ice fishing in Siberia sounded romantic but now I was stuck on a lake, two hours from Ekaterinburg, for the entire day, likely to freeze to death within the hour. Every local we had met on the Trans Siberian so ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By zita_whalley | Views [558] | Scholarship Entry
The setting sun leaks a soft pink into the skyline. The thunderous noise from the sea of red, white and black painted faces, contorted with excitement and fever, rumbles across the stadium. Flags are waved high in the air as novelty horns are blown and ... Read more >
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CHINA | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By yinny | Views [217] | Scholarship Entry
We had been travelling on the Trans-Mongolian train from Moscow, with a few days stopover in Mongolia. Green vegetables did not feature prominently in Mongolian cuisine. We were starting to worry irrationally about the possibility of falling victim to ... Read more >
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INDONESIA | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By merubetirinationalpark | Views [238] | Scholarship Entry
The Fatigue when we doing travelling , would suddenly felt disappear when we get precious moment of that trip. This is what I felt while I was visiting Meru Betiri National Park, the national park located in East Java precisely on the border between Banyuwangi ... Read more >
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MEXICO | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By nosoygringo | Views [550] | Scholarship Entry
Speaking about Kim Jong-un days ago, I told a friend all the leader needs is a beer and some tacos. Understanding a culture through its food? Kim might. So do us. Culinary expressions are inherent to Mexican genes. Perhaps too much, or we would not ... Read more >
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CHINA | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By kelleyfoyt | Views [1642] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
I strained my ears to hear, but I wasn't convinced I wanted to listen. The air was quiet, so I watched. There was a lump in my stomach and I hadn't worked out how I felt. My gaze was fixed ahead of me where a dozen or so people surrounded a horizontal ... Read more >
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TANZANIA | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By kpuikkonen | Views [357] | Scholarship Entry
The motor of Kilimanjaro III vibrated my achy body as the ferry pulled away from Dar es Salaam. The sea breeze evaporated the sweat from my face as the ship picked up speed toward the island of Zanzibar. After three mind numbing weeks on a jolting ... Read more >
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ITALY | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By promezium | Views [338] | Scholarship Entry
My Italian blood is from my father´s side, from somewhere near Napoli and they are farmers…at some point they started to have one of the best extra virgin olive oil in Italy. One of my cousins told me that in our family, we all have a green thumb, so ... Read more >
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MALAYSIA | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By mulberryst | Views [330] | Scholarship Entry
The morning feels damp, with the fading smell of burning garbage. The day had just begun and the local morning market is scrambling to get into its daily rhythmic chaos. I was listening in on a conversation when I was interrupted by my friend Doris who ... Read more >
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By luisvelasco | Views [896] | Scholarship Entry
We were told not to leave too late. I was half asleep when our car’s engine rumbled; I had to slightly tilt my head to have a look at the clock in the wall of the market through the vibrating rearview mirror. The time was 16:45 and something in my gut ... Read more >
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