Africa Archives - Page 11 of 17 - My Family Travels
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Wild Trip to Africa

Africa, home of the wild! June 11, we boarded British Airways for Africa. Two days later, we arrived at Entebbe, Uganda, airport. There were six of us: my older sister Mikka and her mother Carol, Mikka’s...

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Middle East Excursion 2010

In March of 2010 I had the great luck to journey to the Middle East and visit Jordan, while acting as a group leader for the student exchange organization Middle East Excursion, along with nineteen...

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A Taste of Marrakech

           Birds are softly chirping in the courtyard garden beneath me as I sit looking up at the pink sky stretching in all directions above the rooftop garden where I‘m sitting. The...

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Hidden Bias of the Heart

Most people go on a journey hoping to find themselves. By plunging into a foreign setting and experiencing something altogether new, they aspire to uncover the best and most hidden depths of their...

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A weekend in Tzfat, Israel

I spent the weekend before Pesach in Tzfat, one of the four holy cities (the others being Jerusalem,...

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GLOBAL CITIZEN

 My memories never fade.  I can remember cluttered villages, a smell that is unforgettable, unpaved...

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World Challenge: Madagascar

  Personally, I have always wondered if the World Challenge Expeditions people slipped us hallucinogenic drugs along with the spectacular PowerPoint presentation...

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Two Weeks in Impoverished Paradise

 Twenty-six hours of travelling.  I went from the familiar airport in Cincinnati to the massive international intersection that is the Detroit airport to the...

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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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