2009-2010 Photo Contest Winners
Grand Prize Winner: Am I Not Your Donkey? by Matthew Alcorn
Location: Capri Description: "My friends and I were hiking up a hill and a local man was simply taking his donkey on a walk. He stopped and let us pet it and take a photo of him."
  
Portraits Winner: The Temple at Dawn by Megan Renegar
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Cross Cultural Winner: Viva La Revolucion by Hannah Knudson
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Landscapes Winner: Whispered Prayers by Ashley Gulden
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Location: Wat Arun, Bangkok
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Location: Limon, Costa Rica
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Location: Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Japan
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* "Windows from Abroad" photo on Study Abroad home page is Honorable Mention "Petit dejeuner" by Daniel Palmer 
2008-2009 Essay Contest Winners
Grand Prize Winner:
40 Days in June and July
Reflections and Stories from Uganda and Rwanda
by Blake Nelson
"I have never been to a strip club, so this was the first time I had ever seen a woman take off her shirt in front of a group of people. Standing up from a wooden bench brought over from a local primary school, she walked over the dirt and the dead grass until she stood a few yards in front of me, her face passive. With precise movements that spoke of neither being used to or unfamiliar with stripping in front of strangers, she began to remove the layers off of her top half.
Under the thin cloth her skin resembled melted wax on the side of a candle, like it had started to bubble and burst off of her but instead froze mid-melt in a range of colors. Her breasts were shrunken, but other parts of her chest and neck bloated outwards. This was the second woman I had met today who had been burned alive, but the perpetrators were not thorough enough to finish the job. Perhaps that was because they were children. "
Click here to read the rest of Blake's essay. |
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Second Place Winner:
Una taza de café
by Claire Henry |
Third Place Winner:
Thoughts from Saturday
by Tina Bucton |
"I walked the streets of Lima today
- brandishing my flag
the black, white, and GREEN howling my origin."
It did not dance in the wind as its brothers
- brooding from their plumed perches atop embajadas
instead;
steamed as I slowly sipped the life force of my people."
Click here to read the rest of Claire's poem. |
"My day was quite focused on Iraq: this morning I argued for soft partition as the solution for Iraq, this afternoon I tutored an Iraqi woman in her late thirties in English in East Amman, whose son is fighting in the Iraqi Army trained by Americans, and tonight I said goodbye to a 19-year old former translator and Iraqi refugee church friend. These are precisely the sort of things I came here to do, and it seems so surreal to read what I just typed. Yet at the same time, today felt like any other day in Amman, nothing spectacular."
Click here to read the rest of Tina's journal entry. |
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