Terima Kasih, Malaysia – Sean O’Carroll – Malaysia 2019
2019 Fulbright Malaysia ETAs Sean O’Carroll, Zak Gordon, and Carter Sanders present “Terima Kasih, Malaysia”, a poetic homage to their experience teaching English in the country. During their year, Sean and Zak lived on the eastern side of the Malay peninsula while Carter lived on the island of Borneo. A majority of the footage shown […]
A Return to Pakistan – Mark Hildebrandt – Pakistan 2018
USEFP has been like family for over 14 years. It’s a wonderful program. My first experience with USEFP in 2006 was a year of great scholarship juxtaposed with local political unrest. I was a Fulbright Senior Scholar hosted by Kathmandu University during a very turbulent year in Nepal. In the early part of 2006, strikes […]
Building a Multilingual Community in Bolivia – The Fulbright Style – Monica Flores Rojas – Fulbright to USA 2007-2010
I can’t! (¡No puedo!) Learning English is so difficult! (¡El inglés es muy difícil!) I give up! I’m not built for this. (Ya no puedo seguir. Esto no es para mí.) These are some common phrases you hear from many individuals around the world and Bolivia, my home country, is no exception. Learning a language […]
Fulbright Changed My Life – Eugenie Trow – Netherlands 1966
Year: 1966-67, Amsterdam, Nederlands Who I am: Playwright. Retired teacher of Theatre Arts and Math at a two-year college. Why I went: To study Intuitionistic Mathematics, found only at the University of Amsterdam. This mathematical theory advocates that we need to be suspicious about processes that repeat “forever,” since we can’t be there when it […]
Pizza Party – Raymond Hogler – Italy 2007
In 2007, I spent a semester teaching at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. I understood at the outset that students were competent in English and I would be teaching in that language. It wasn’t quite so easy. My students generally didn’t speak any better English than I did Italian. It was a problem. […]
Fulbright and the Growth of a Professional Teachers’ Organization – Sally La Luzerne-Oi – Ukraine 1995 & 2007
My Fulbright experience in Ukraine during the 1995-1996 academic year provided many special moments and memories, but the most enduring one was helping to organize a professional organization for teachers of English. One of my tasks while teaching English classes for English majors at Vinnytsia Pedagogical Institute (now a university) was to assist faculty there […]
From 0 to 1 – Servio Palacios – Indiana, USA 2013
I am from a tiny town in Honduras; this town is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization. I am the first Ph.D. in Computer Science (CS) from this region (Copan Ruinas). Copan Ruinas is a United Nations World Heritage site renowned for the hieroglyphic staircase, stellae, and museum. The Mayans invented the Zero independently around 4 AD; therefore, it was […]
The Shakers and Tagore Dance – Leslie Friedman – India 1984
December, 1983. I arrived in India, a Fulbright Lecturer affiliated with Viswa Bharati University, West Bengal. It is Nobel Prize poet Tagore’s university. Mrs Das Gupta from Fulbright/Calcutta took me to the train to Santineketan. A gorgeous carriage met me. Dance Department Directors, men in colorful, exquisite costumes, greeted me as though I […]