Thresholds & Bridges – Norma Fay Green – Denmark 2000
“Our school is an island in the sea of time, and on this occasion the winds have blown our way.” Peter Hoeg in The History of Danish Dreams In August 2000, after a summer of graduate teaching in Chicago and just three days after a week-long intensive journalism educators conference in Phoenix, Arizona where construction […]
Golden Friendship – Barbara McCleary – Hungary 2000
With COVID-19 quarantine restrictions, we turn to Zoom to communicate with friends and family. Since 2000, we of Pecs, Hungarian Fulbright-Hays Grant, have kept in touch mainly through Facebook. This month, Sylvia of Pecs, suggested a Zoom meeting of our group so I set to organize 12 of the original 20 members to Zoom next […]
Full Circle – Jaime Palter – Costa Rica 2000
I learned so much about myself, my host country, and the biggest estuary in Costa Rica during my Fulbright experience 20 years ago. Every day at Costa Rica stretched me intellectually. Today, a Fulbright student from Indonesia studies oceanography with me here in the US. The potential for science to unite us across cultures and […]