My Fulbright Experience at Montclair – Debdas Ray – USA 2010
I was always interested to do something meaningful in my life which would enable me to serve the society as a whole. As a teacher, I had the opportunity to serve the society. But I was searching for a larger platform. In the year 1996, the entire scenario changed in my life. I got involved […]
First steps – Jeff Hartman – Belize 2020
We traveled to Belize in 2020 as a family of 5. Mom, dad, and big sis were able to explore independently but the two twin sisters, who were 9 months old, were still crawling on their hands and knees. This was one of the reasons mom and dad were confident enough to take three little […]
Carnival in the Canaries – Pharibe Pope – Spain 2019
“¿Qué significa murga?” This was a question I asked after picking up the local newspaper in our teacher’s lounge. It was a room just big enough to fit one futon and four stools, but at any one time you might find ten to fifteen exuberant teachers sitting shoulder to shoulder, sipping 1-euro cafecitos from the […]
Celebrating the coming spring in the vineyard – Diane Quantic – Bulgaria 1986
On February 14, 1987, we joined the other foreign professors from the Veliko Turnovo University at a cooperative farm and school, a young girl in traditional dress bringing a ceremonial offering of bread to the vineyard, ceremoniously pruning the vines, spreading feasts in the snow for all, then watching a parade of decorated tractors and […]
Being in the Middle of the Opening of the Berlin Wall – John Austin Murphy – Germany 1989
While on a Fulbright research assignment at the Free University of Berlin in 1989-90, I connected with East German demonstrators and officials as well as with researchers from both Germanies and Hungary. I learned to dance in East Berlin discos, as well as later on the streets of West Berlin when the Berlin Wall opened […]
My ‘Distinguished Service & Outreach Award’ Winning Moment – Gaurav Misra – USA 2015
I was a foreign language instructor to my American students at the University of Montana, Missoula (UM). I was part of an established South & South-East Asian Studies Program with a focus on India and several India-based courses. Through my presence on this campus, I helped to develop the foreign language program and increase overall […]
A Humble Exchange of Gifts – Barbara Ellen Thompson – Vietnam 2014
Mr Huang lived in a humble dwelling made of sheets of corrugated iron next door to our house in Hue, Vietnam. He had a small red plastic table and four matching chairs in front of his house. Whenever my husband, Don, and I passed his home he would insist that we sit down and join […]
Hi, Auntie! – Bernard Poole – India 2006
S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 2 1 , 2 0 0 7 Hi, Auntie! This is cute. Every day when I walk into my class, I start out by giving my laptop and projector to a couple of the students (I call them my “technologistes du […]