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Staying in Italy: Where To Find Accomodation Online77

Staying in Italy: Where To Find Accomodation Online

Finding a good accomodation while you are in another country can be a daunting experience. Especially when you intend to live there for quite a long period of 3 months or more, staying in a hotel could waste...

7 comments    travel vacation holiday
Università per Stranieri di Perugia: Italian Language Course for Foreigners80

Università per Stranieri di Perugia: Italian Language Course for Foreigners

the University of Perugia for Foreigners: Palazzo Gallenga Campus Last summer I got the Italian government scholarship to learn Italian language for three consecutive months in one of the oldest city in Italy. The Italian language course is...

16 comments    travel education vacation
Jalaluddin Rumi: A Quest of Trace in Konya76

Jalaluddin Rumi: A Quest of Trace in Konya

We have probably heard about Jalaluddin Rumi only as one of the legendary Islamic figures in Sufism. That’s what exactly happened to me, too. But I found this ignorance to become a curiosity when I have the occasion to visit the place where he...

6 comments    travel poetry religion
Why Learning Turkish: Reasons and Facts74

Why Learning Turkish: Reasons and Facts

That’s what came up to my mind when I found out that my faculty organized a Turkish language course as an optional subject. Besides the fact that Turkey is situated faraway from my country, I suppose there...

14 comments    education culture language
Barack Obama and His Childhood in Indonesia75

Barack Obama and His Childhood in Indonesia

The electoral campaign for the next president of the United States is still a hot issue until recent days, especially because one of the candidates is an Afro-American and thus grabs public’s attention, even the world, and Indonesia as well. Why?...

151 comments    life education politics
Marion Cotillard: French Actress Gets Into Hollywood?72

Marion Cotillard: French Actress Gets Into Hollywood?

I was surprised when I saw Marion Cotillard, a nationally famous young French actress, stepped on the red carpet on E! News TV Program several days ago. I was even more astonished when she was nominated for...

2 comments    entertainment movie history
Coco Chanel: The First Woman Designer In The World of Fashion70

Coco Chanel: The First Woman Designer In The World of Fashion

The first time I heard about Coco Chanel was exactly while I was still taking French language course at the end of 1990's. I just then realized that it is Coco, the familiar name for Chanel, who created for...

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Love Poetry: Diamonds Of The Sea64

Love Poetry: Diamonds Of The Sea

Hi, here's one of my favorite poetry of my own that I wrote on an online poetry club couple of years ago. It's actually about a family living near the sea whose father is a sailor and is about to leave their home to go offshore. But you can also...

4 comments    love poetry poems
Haiti: The Origin of Zombism and Vodou74

Haiti: The Origin of Zombism and Vodou

Just a few weeks before the earthquake disaster, I had to prepare a presentation that addresses the theme of dictatorship and dependence in Haiti, based on the novel by René Depestre. And since that moment I began to be interested in the culture ...

1 comment    travel religion politics
Exotic Trip To Capadocia (Part 1)70

Exotic Trip To Capadocia (Part 1)

The idea of visiting Cappadocia came from one of my friends who attended the Turkish summer course at TÖMER, a language center organized by Ankara Üniversitesi. Even though Istanbul is the most famous for its tourist destination, but Cappadocia remains a tempting name for those seeking natural wonders of the world...

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