Foreign But Warming Experiences In Istanbul
I was selected to participate in a summer exchange program to Turkey through my mother's company, Evonik, this past summer. When I arrived in Ankara, my host family was so warm, and my Turkish sister,...
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Everything is Not What It Seems
A couple of hundred miles off the west coast of Ecuador, the Galápagos Islands are little pieces of paradise situated in the Pacific Ocean. As my family and I left our cruise ship, “The Ambassador”,...
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Three months of reality
George Bernand Shaw once wrote, “the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.” Up until the summer of 2008, when...
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Peruvian Glue
Daydreaming of trees filled with birds of every color in the spectrum and the prospect of encountering exotic, undiscovered species, I and thirty others from my school ventured into the Amazon, thrilled...
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In the Mountains of Colorado
While the rest of the world took exciting trips to London and Paris, my mother decided it would be more fun to stay within the United States. Colorado was the place she had always wanted to visit. I...
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A Glimpse of Madison, Wisconsin
My alarm clock’s nagging and monotonous beeping blared at six in the morning on Labor Day this year. Getting up eagerly, I exhibited a deep contrast to my usual routine of hitting the snooze button....
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Unexpected Paradise
It was the summer of 2006. My parents decided it was time for another family vacation to Mexico, and yes, I was going, no exceptions. See, every time my parents plan a “family vacation,”...
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