At around 6:00 am on a recent Saturday morning, thirty-four people, either students or staff of the University of Northern Virginia – Prague, got out of their comfortable and warm beds to meet at the designated tour-bus point. The fall semester had been very challenging and stressful; these people who gathered needed a way...
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Students on Location
Here you can read about interesting places that students have written about…
The Day UNVA Prague Defied the Weather
Tale of Two Cities
It is fascinating how two cosmopolitan cities can show vast differences, but they do not only show differences, there are similarities also. The differences are sometimes so great that they cut across the tiniest things you might notice, like how people greet each other, or their collective behavior while riding on a bus or...
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Short Trip to Istanbul
My flights home from Prague to Almaty have a layover through Istanbul where I usually have to wait for two or three hours in Turkey’s international airport — so I’ve never actually had the time to walk around and appreciate Istanbul as an ancient major city. But this flight was different from the others....
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A Sudanese weekend
Khartoum, Sudan, 5 a.m.— My grandfather is the first to awake and turn off the ringing alarm clock. He heads to the bathroom to perform his morning ablutions, then comes out to sit in his rocking chair. Half asleep, I can hear him reading his daily prayers and the holy Quran; his prayers enter...
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Round Trip to NYC for 9000 CZK
I decided that my late summer holiday trip should be spectacular—especially because it was the last couple of free days I had for this year. New York City came to my mind because I saw that the air tickets were getting cheaper every day. I was able to get a ticket for 9000 CZK,...
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Moulin Rouge
Even if you have never been to Paris, I am sure you still have some imagination about this city. Paris is a city of love, the Eiffel tower, good table wine, and the home of the can-can. Paris. When you go to Paris, you have the opportunity not only to see today’s Paris, but...
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Me & Almaty
I’m still sleeping, and in a vague dream I can smell well-cooked, aromatic food. The aroma becomes even stronger in my mind and wakes me, a quite lazy and sleepy person, from my bed. I open my eyes, first of all trying to find my cell phone. I want to see if someone has...
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The Marvelous Change of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
“It has been 30 years since the Vietnam War ended and now this country in Southeast Asia is one of the world’s fastest growing economies’’. This is the opening line to an article that CNN news published July 15, 2005. The article explained what has occurred in Vietnam since the Vietnam War, but it...
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One Day in Sochi
A warm breath of air blows back the curtains in my room, letting in the early-morning sun. I open my eyes and see the room glowing in red. A new day has dawned. A little later, soft yellow sunlight slowly awakes the city of Sochi — my city. The dew on the grass disappears...
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