Africa Archives - Page 12 of 18 - My Family Travels
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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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What I Learned About Community in Guinea

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