“You cheeky little monkeh,” my free-spirited British cousin would always say. She has only been here, in Melbourne, Australia, for three days to attend a family wedding, and every member of our family has somewhere to take her. We took her to one of Melbourne’s greatest tourist attractions, the Great Ocean Road. The car was […]
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We all dream of travelling around the world, but how many of us actually go out there and do it? The secret is to do it when you’re young, and taking a gap year is a perfect time. The only problem is that few of us have the money or the means to pay our […]
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I feel like I left a part of me behind when I left you behind. You were all that I could think about as the plane took off. I could physically feel the weight of the longing, the deep sadness that came with having to leave you. You freed me somehow, in between the painted […]
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Eleanor lifts her bleak blue eyes to the burning world above her. Brilliant shades of crimson cascade across it; sunny yellows streak the smoldering sky like oil paints; violets hide behind smears of magenta. It’s so bright, for a while Eleanor can’t make out the sun. When she does, it’s simply a pale smudge in […]
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There are these pictures which exist on my phone like postage stamps, each one waiting for its destination. We took the early morning ferry, watching behind the silver wake, its twin possibilities of listening to our thoughtless words and a song like wind chimes sprinkling the things we said with a certain glister—which I would […]
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Holidays are lovely.
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Paris. Often known as the city of love, I discovered it was so much more in the two weeks that I spent there improving my French and enjoying the start of my summer with one of my best friends. No matter where we went — whether it was sitting by the Seine watching the boats […]
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It’s summertime! What does that mean? Beautiful golden tans… right? Don’t magazines tell us that if you wear tanning oils with the lowest SPF, then you’ll look like a sun-kissed beach goddess? Sure, you may think you look nice for a little while, but the truth is that this extreme sun exposure can cause sunburns, […]
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It was May 16 when me and my family (excluding my mother, who was working in Japan) flew to Japan for the first time. My family and I had been waiting for 12 years to finally get to see this beautiful country, and when we did — it blew us away. While on our flight, […]
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