2019 Service Trip to Greece
Καλώς ήρθατε από την Ελλάδα Fulbright ταξιδιώτες! Nine Fulbright alumni and friends of international education embarked last month for a Service Corps Trip to Greece May 17-26. The Fulbright Association’s first service trip to Greece started from the beautiful city of Heraklion, capital of the island of Crete and brought together Fulbrighters and friends for […]
Celebrating the Fourth of July in Malawi
The mission of Fulbright is to build international bridges between the United States of America and the rest of the world through education, service, and people-to-people connections. The Fourth of July is a great time to reflect upon and celebrate these values – which participants of our newly launched 2018 Service Corps Trip to Malawi […]
Service Trip to Albania, Macedonia, and Greece — Reflections by Kathy Parkison
“All you have to do is twist the silver wire into curliques and shapes to fill the mold.” The artisan expressed how “easy” it was, walked away and left me struggling with the tweezers, the incredibly fine silver wire, the mold and a less than perfect understanding of how filigree was made. Turns out, you […]
Building ‘Pathways to Peace’: 2017 Service Tour to Malawi
If you’ve never ridden into an unfamiliar African village and been warmly embraced with singing and dancing after your small van has bumped along on an unpaved, dusty road with more naturally-grooved speed-bumps than trees alongside it, you really can’t fully appreciate how the Fulbright Association’s Service Tour in Malawi came to plant 1700 trees […]
Reflections on my Fulbright Service Trip to Serbia
“You need to ‘sling’ the mortar into the space, not shove it in. Here, let me show you.” Thus began my introduction to historically accurate stone structure repair. As a Fulbright alum (the country of Georgia in 2005), I was used to being flexible and thinking creatively about situations, but this was a great new […]
Reflections on My Trip to Albania: Interview with Gale Workman
Gale Workman has traveled to over 70 countries but she had never been to Albania. So when she saw that the Fulbright Association had an upcoming Service Corps Project in Albania, she signed up to join fellow alumni in Gjirokastra, a World Heritage Site. Working with Cultural Heritage Without Borders, the team of Fulbright alumni was trained in […]