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 […]
My Fabulous Fulbright to Malaysia – Edmund Kellerman – Malaysia 2015
Along with teaching and research at the University Tenaga National, the US Embassy asked me to do workshops and presentations to literary groups on intercultural communication, non profit leadership, and teaching methods. I even opened a Speech Anxiety lab for students who were overly nervous to speak in public. Edmund Kellerman – Fulbright to Malaysia […]
Storytelling in Borneo – Eric Trules – Malaysia 2002
Storytelling goes back to the dawn of mankind. One of the things that distinguishes humans from the “lower” species is their ability to think, conceptualize, remember, write, collect and organize information, and consequently remember, create, and tell stories. My field of expertise, both as an artist and as an academic, is as an autobiographic storyteller. […]
Using My Malaysia Fulbright Experience to Travel Around the World – William Wilen – Malaysia 1994
My first Fulbright Scholar teaching experience was to Malaysia and its Ministry of Education with the assignment of designing and teaching a four-day workshop to be delivered to university English language faculties in five locations around the country. Malaysia was going through a major educational change. The Ministry of Education wanted schools and teachers to […]
Addison Dlott – Malaysia 2020
One of the first things I remember from my English Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia was jotting down a phrase in my phone: We’re all living the same experiences, just different realities. Someone said it to me in passing, but I knew I had to remember it because I thought it so pointedly reflected what cross-cultural […]
Alia Flanigan – Malaysia 2020
My Fulbright experience is and will always be memorable. From getting that acceptance letter on March 22nd 2019 to coming home unexpectedly on March 18th 2020, I will never forget my time in Malaysia and all the new friends I made. Moving to a small town called Kuala Krau in Temerloh, Pahang was very new […]
Laura Savage – Malaysia 2020
My vision was fuzzy as I blinked my crusty eyes open. I couldn’t tell if I was still dreaming or if the sound was somebody buzzing to get into the room. I stumbled toward the living room of the hotel suite and realized that it was just the phone ringing. I picked it up. “Hello?” […]
Arcadia Trvalik – Malaysia 2020
Fifty-four weeks ago today, I read the word “Congratulations,” upon opening my email; my first thought was, “wait…what?!” Upon receiving my Fulbright grant, I was astonished and euphoric, my excitement vibrating in the background of every conversation I had with colleagues, friends and family for months to come. How much has changed in these fifty-four […]