... and the scholarship grant. He endured all my arrogant blabber: whom I met, how big my professor was, how great my classmates were, how wonderful UP was. I didn't know at the time the people he was with as he went underground against the dictator, as he spoke in street rallies and lived with the masa, as he sang "Kanlungan," "Ugat," "Karapatang Pantao" and "Tatsulok." If ... I had known the business of those suspicious looking men who came to our house in the dead of night forever whispering, I would have been ashamed of my professors, my classmates, and my school. During my 18th birthda...

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... the rest of our vacation on the Pacific coast on the edge of the largest rainforest in the country. A singe engine airplane that barely fit my father and I with two suitcases comfortably scurried its way to our destination. In the middle of the jungle we landed on a 200 yard grass ... never needed. The climate relatively always stays the same; it's either raining or sunny. Lucky for us only one day was raining so the rest of the vacation was filled with activity. Close to Drake Bay was another American who retired and lived close to drake Bay. He supplied horses to traveling locals and t...

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... out of the country without family before, so I found it really hard to say my goodbyes. For the first time in my life I felt scared and unsure and this new feeling I had never experienced before. I had had been camping for weeks at a time without family, so I could not understand why it was so hard to say goodbye ... we would be living in two days. The first two days consisted of touring all over Nicaragua and seeing a new world as it could never be seen. Tears filled my eyes when our bus type vehicle entered a garbage dump. I had remembered seeing pictures and being told about this scen...

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• Grade Level: High School