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Jag Heter Selena, Vod Heter Du?

July-August of 2009:     After a tiring, sixteen hour long flight, during which I got to feed my ginger ale addiction, I arrived in Arlanda airport close to the city Stockholm, Sweden; the...

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Train Tales

If a person never took the time to appreciate their life, then a New York City cab driver will change that in an instant. Before my friend and I could even securely fasten our seatbelts,...

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Medicine, Philanthropy, Perseverance, and Beauty

Traveling is exciting, regardless of where you're destined.  And doing it solo is even better.  Lost in the clouds, disconnected from the mayhem on the ground,...

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Holocaust Memoir

While I waited outside, I stood in a single...

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Berlin

 During my time in Europe I have been blessed with a wealth of incredible experiences.  There has been no city that I have visited that has made me more aware of this - or more grateful -...

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Backyard Adventures: The Austin, TX Edition

            Oh, the plight of the postbaccalaureate student! My undergraduate loans and future law school loans have made sure that my travel fund stays at a pitiful $0. ...

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Finding joy in simplicity: My stay in the Kedougou region of Senegal

My name is Emilia Spalding, and for the spring of 2010 I am studying abroad in Senegal, West Africa. I am studying with SIT Study Abroad, (www.sit.edu/studyabroad)...

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No Yellow Cab

Although I haven’t been to many places in the world, out off my twenty years of existence, I would say that the best one on my list is visiting New York City. While planning on transferring to...

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A disaster of the best sort

When you first walk into the building of Ramos Mejía, home of the social sciences for the Universidad...

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