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  • Cody in Bahrain
  • 16-Aug-2013
As’salam Alaikum – السلام عليكم

It wasn't even twelve hours after I landed that I began to fully take it in! It felt like IRead More ⇾

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  • Nicole in Nepal
  • 12-Aug-2013
That’s all: the end from a dhal in Nepal

Week old henna stains the front and back of my left hand. Brown, beautiful, and intricate, the under part ofRead More ⇾

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  • Jasmine in South Korea
  • 30-Jul-2013
travelling is not a brutality, but a beauty

After week 3 at Yonsei, I, along with students from the University of California campuses, took a road trip toRead More ⇾

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  • Aliyah in India
  • 25-Jul-2013
A Foreigner of a Different Color

If I could describe what I felt in the week leading up to my journey to India in one word,Read More ⇾

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  • Nicole in Nepal
  • 25-Jul-2013
The evolution of the Magic Zone

During one of our first lectures, a brief Nepali history and culture, we had the pleasure of reawakening our newlyRead More ⇾

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  • Sona in Russia
  • 18-Jul-2013
Anticipating a Conflicted Departure

As the end of my program approaches, I have begun to feel strangely torn between two very extreme feelings. HavingRead More ⇾

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  • Sona in Russia
  • 17-Jul-2013
Russia: A Palatial History

Generally speaking, it seems logical that the Soviet period of Russian history has had the longest lasting effect on theRead More ⇾

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  • Sona in Russia
  • 10-Jul-2013
St. Petersburg: Worthy Struggles

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort ofRead More ⇾

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  • Sona in Russia
  • 08-Jul-2013
An introduction to the frustrations of Russian language

All together, my trip from Jersey’s suburbs to St. Petersburg, Russia amounted to approximately 15 hours of travel. Partially theRead More ⇾

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  • Tyler in Brazil
  • 04-Feb-2013
One Wet Shoe in the City of Rain

I remember sitting outside my apartment in the Phoenix night, enjoying the cool air and listening to the steady murmurRead More ⇾

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  • Danielle in Morocco
  • 01-Feb-2013
Exploring the City of Rabat & a Taste of Culture

Hard to believe that my first week is almost up.  Today we learned basic survival Arabic - the Moroccan dialectRead More ⇾

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  • Jerrin in Ecuador
  • 01-Dec-2012
I promise it’s worth it.

In previous blogs I have talked about my experience arriving in Quito, and how it was not exactly how IRead More ⇾