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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Like the Stars
It was in 2001 as a sixth grader that my father told me and my younger sister that we would be travelling to
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Zimbabwe
It is a ghost town. The shops are closed, the windows shuttered and the interiors gutted.But it is not an abandoned ghost town. People do still live here. Their livelihoods, however, do not.This...
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