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Sharing Stories - A Glimpse into Another's Life - A Place to Fall in Love, get Naked & Recover

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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Sharing Stories - A Glimpse into Another's Life - Vientiane, First time Backpacking

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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Catching a Moment - The 38th Parallel

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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A Local Encounter that Changed my Perspective - Brothers of Heart

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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Catching a Moment - Sarfee

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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Understanding a Culture through Food - Hanoi Old Coffee

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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A Local Encounter that Changed my Perspective - Survivor

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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Sharing Stories - A Glimpse into Another's Life - Fanta and Onions in South Africa

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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Catching a Moment - Goodbye Scotland

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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Catching a Moment - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Munkeh!

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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Catching a Moment - Icy fish, warm vodka

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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A Local Encounter that Changed my Perspective - Football. It's just a game

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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Understanding a Culture through Food - Culinary Delights!

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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Catching a Moment

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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Understanding a Culture through Food - What food means in Mexico

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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Catching a Moment - On Witnessing a Tibetan Sky Burial

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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Sharing Stories - A Glimpse into Another's Life - Africa Defined

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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Sharing Stories - A Glimpse into Another's Life - just an Intro, taste it!

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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Understanding a Culture through Food - Curry Noodle Thoughts

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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A Local Encounter that Changed my Perspective - The land of unexpected... indeed!

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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