In Madrid – Jenny Cascino – Spain 2017
In Madrid, the light respires millenary breaths upon terracotta facades it dances carrying earth paints a stable glaze of aspiration and crianza upon the souls of passersby who move along as if carried upon a hedonistic puff of cigarette smoke by whose subtle and sultry perfection I am transfixed. In Madrid, clouds and […]
My New World – Enrique Merino – USA 1967
My Fulbright fellowship sent me, from southern Spain, to Berkeley, California. California became my new world, with landscapes and live oaks and sequoias and vines. The Berkeley International House provided friends and the wife I still have. My ashes will be scattered on Mount Wittenberg, Point Reyes. Enrique Merino – Fulbright to USA 1967
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. […]
Is Mutual Understanding Through Exchange Still Possible? – Margaret McLeod and Bryce Johnston – Spain 2020
Since early 2020, global travel bans have placed educational exchanges on pause. While American students remained at home, the landscape of international education changed dramatically. Hybrid classrooms now allow students from across the globe to connect through digital technology; however, it also created new channels for misinformation to undermine classroom discussion around sensitive topics. As […]
Carnival in the Canaries – Pharibe Pope – Spain 2019
“¿Qué significa murga?” This was a question I asked after picking up the local newspaper in our teacher’s lounge. It was a room just big enough to fit one futon and four stools, but at any one time you might find ten to fifteen exuberant teachers sitting shoulder to shoulder, sipping 1-euro cafecitos from the […]
My First Attempted Coup d’Etat – James Nolan – Spain 1979 & 1989
Photo Above: Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and James Nolan in his Barrio Gotico apartment, Barcelona, 1991. This past January 6, I sat glued to the television watching as state representatives in the nation’s Capitol cowered on the floor while a mob of shouting louts invaded their congressional chamber, interrupting the Electoral College’s certification of the presidential […]
Short Stories – Sara Morris Swetcharnik – Spain 1987
Sara Morris Swetcharnik and her husband William Swetcharnik were American Collaborative Grantees in Sculpture and Research to the Fulbright Program in Spain, Commission for Cultural, Educational and Scientific Exchange between the United States and Spain (1988-89, 1987-88). Later, William Swetcharnik was also awarded a Fulbright Grant to Honduras: Sara traveled with him to Honduras as […]
Learning, Sharing and Socializing – Irma M. Olmedo – Spain 2012
As I progressed in my profession, my teaching and research were strengthened by a variety of experiences. As a senior scholar at my university in the United States, I was able to secure research grants for my work and use my ongoing research to enhance my teaching. How wonderful it would be to do both […]