The one who prances around loudly declaring her hostel room number, drunkenly cavorts in the more dangerous parts of town with strangers, and wanders the streets at night wearing her noise cancelling ear buds on dark streets.

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In return for 25 hours a week of work at the hostel, the intern would be given a free room at the hostel.

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The amazing thing about hostels is the same hostel and the same room can vary massively from day to day, week to week.

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Finally, I came back to the hostel one Saturday evening to find my room overtaken by three Swedes.

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Although he is a full-time professor, Wall last year opened the Danja Fistula Center in Niger, a 42-bed hospital specializing in fistula repair surgeries with an operating room, outpatient clinic and hostel facilities for about 100 women.

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