Lasting Friendships – Diane Quantic – Bulgaria 1986
Maria Mitreva, daughter of my colleague in Bulgaria, came to live with us when she was 16. She graduated from Friends University where my husband Bruce was a professor. She stayed in Wichita, married and began a career with CCH, a company that writes tax software. Her mother joins her a part of each year. […]
Cultural Connections Across the Years – Richard C. Hoffman IV – Estonia 2013
My Fulbright was spent in Estonia during the spring semester of 2013 at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Tartu. I chose Estonia and Tartu for both professional and personal reasons. My wife and I have strong roots in Europe. My mother was a war bride from France, as a […]
International Bonds – Nancy Kuechelmann – Germany 1989
My husband and I enjoyed attending local festivals while we were in Germany (1988-89). Among our favorite events were axe throwing competitions and chain saw demonstrations. Of course, we enjoyed the food and local beer, too! As we were sitting across from a German couple at a long table, we started talking. Hearing that we […]
Bartok’s room – Istvan Peter B’RAcz – Hungary 1989
In 1989, I was studying piano at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest Hungary with Balázs Szokolay and Péter Nagy, and was preparing some auditions for Grad School. I was working on Bartok’s Piano Sonata (1926), and I was in the Bartokterem (Bartok’s room) which has a bust of Béla B staring right at […]
Familia – Jeanie Bukowski – Spain 2006
All those years ago now, I stood before this door, clutching your address and my suitcase. I had traveled nearly 5000 miles to arrive here. Alone for the first time in my life. To learn another language, to understand another culture. I was trembling. It was all I could do to ring your doorbell. […]
East Meets West: Reflections on Teaching an American Past in the Former East Germany – Stephen Engle – Germany 1995
“The future is certain,” goes the old Soviet joke, “it is only the past that is unpredictable.” For many former East Germans the unpredictability of the past six years has left them searching for a way to blend their culture with that of the West without abandoning their past, Though there are obvious differences, today’s […]
Coming Home – Kimberly Reyes – Ireland 2019
Kimberly Reyes – Fulbright to Ireland 2019
A Standing Ovation for Law – Rumu Sarkar – Poland 2016
While attending a seminar at Georgetown University Law Center where I was an adjunct law professor, I happened to sit next to a Chinese law professor studying at Georgetown Law under his Fulbright Scholarship. He was, to my amazement, already familiar with my publication, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW, and promptly invited me to speak at his […]