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Read like a guest, not like a tourist!

ENG 310 — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 01:20:09 +0000

Every time you pick up a novel from another country, you open the door to a new journey. You might discover new (to you!) foods and customs, pick up a few phrases in a foreign language, or gain a new perspective on something you thought you understood. If you are fluent in English — a […]

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Coming to America

Stefany Anne Golberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:12:43 +0000

It was my husband, Morgan who first noticed that we lost all of our Sri Lankans in Abu Dhabi. None of them, we realized, would be following us past the Middle East. We would be traveling to Paris alone, with French people, and some Americans. We must have traveled for 30 hours, sleeping and […]

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The Man from New Jersey

Stefany Anne Golberg — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:12:43 +0000

Every year on February 17, a group of Buddhist Sri Lankans make their way down Olcott Avenue and into the mad market hustle of the Pettah neighborhood of Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. They march peacefully across the street to the railway station where they pay tribute, these Buddhists all dressed in white, […]

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