Literature Across Oceans
For Khoa, a top student in the English Literature department at Hanoi’s University of Languages, he often felt alone in his passion. His friends liked...
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See Our Friendship Stories From shared hobbies and epic getaways to finding kindred spirits, see how members found their crew, right on OVFriends.
User story
See Our Friendship Stories From shared hobbies and epic getaways to finding kindred spirits, see how members found their crew, right on OVFriends.
The Multicultural Marriage
Minh, a final-year Graphic Design student in Ho Chi Minh City, was exhausted. The fleeting, superficial relationships around him left him cynical. He joined OVFRIENDS...
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The Promise of the Succulent
Lukas and I met in the strangest way: we both used a purple-edged succulent as our profile picture. He was a German exchange student and...
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The Spanish Sous-Chef
I started a blog called “Student Cuisine of Five Continents”, with the ambition of collecting authentic local recipes from around the world. To do this,...
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Stay, please
It was one of the worst days. The project I had poured my heart into for three months was canceled with a single email. My...
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What’s the weather like over there today?
My first day in Berlin, I burst into tears in the middle of the U-Bahn station. Not because anyone bullied me, not because I was...
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