The Fulbright “Black Sheep”
“Bobby, meet Bill Fulbright,” I extended my hand. “Oh hello Senator…is it still Senator?” “Well you can be a son of a bitch your whole life why not a Senator?,” he replied with a chuckle. I remember this encounter with the Great Man at a local golf course as clear as day. What a guy! […]
Stephen Cottrell – Thailand 2007 – Japan 2009 – Vietnam 2013
The English novelist George Orwell best captured my first experience in Vietnam with his penetrating words, “If the war didn’t kill you it was bound to start you thinking.” Having survived the former, I became a huge fan of the latter. It can be safely assumed that many readers of this article have experienced defining […]
Raha Hakimdavar – The Netherlands 2013
Raha Hakimdavar, an award-winning engineer and hydrologist, knew what it meant to live in a different country long before her Fulbright to the Netherlands. Originally from Isfahan, Iran, she moved to the United States when she was ten years old. Though she could not speak English, she jumped right into a California middle school, and […]