Teen Ink Magazine,
November 2003 :
Travel Articles
Amazing Thailand by Claire A., Sherman Oaks, CA Last Christmas, I took a three-week trip to what the travel company called "Amazing Thailand" with my mom and aunt ... Continue...
College Visits - Uncensored by Meghan M., Hanover, MA This was it: the trip I'd been waiting for all year, the one high-school juniors everywhere anticipate: The Visiting Colleges Trip. Only, it wasn't going to be a fun road trip with friends as I had hoped ... Continue...
Tasting Someone Else's World by Erica S., Groton, MA Discovering a new culture is like finding a secretdoor. Once you step inside, you never know what you'll find. The problem is thatwe often don't put enough effort into finding the key. I have found that manydon't share my desire to find what the world has to offer ... Continue...
Through Middle-Eastern Eyes by Daisey P., Trumbull, CT Deia is a seventh-grader I know who comes from a land most of us know only from Arabian Nights. It is a land of extremes, from the gorgeous blue of the Mediterranean to the wild barren area known as the Dead Sea ... Continue...
Two Boys in a Hippo by Ismael V., Yerrington, NV I came to this country inside a piñata in the back of a truck with seven other illegal aliens. Barely five years old, I was stuffed in a hippo-shaped piñata for 17 hours with my brother, hoping and dreaming for a better life in America ... Continue...
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