Building a Multilingual Community in Bolivia – The Fulbright Style – Monica Flores Rojas – Fulbright to USA 2007-2010
I can’t! (¡No puedo!) Learning English is so difficult! (¡El inglés es muy difícil!) I give up! I’m not built for this. (Ya no puedo seguir. Esto no es para mí.) These are some common phrases you hear from many individuals around the world and Bolivia, my home country, is no exception. Learning a language […]
Secluded in Orangeburg – Vijay Prakash Singh – USA 2019
The time of the early pandemic was one of safe seclusion for me, far away from the dance of death taking place in the bigger cities like Chicago or New York. I had a 60s ranch house with a magnolia tree and a cypress in the front and several pines and a maple in the […]
Fulbright – A lesson in compassion – Waqas Idrees – USA 2013
A few questions that were asked by people when I told them I am from Pakistan; “Do you own a camel?” When I told them, “Sadly, I don’t,” follow up question…” how do you travel to work then?” “Do you know any American singers?” I answered, “Madonna, Michael Jackson.” Follow-up question, “How do you know […]
Linguistic Paradise – Almir Mustafic – USA 2013
I spent one of the greatest years of my life in the United States (2013). The article linked down below follows my Fulbright experience that was published by a Serbian Linguistic Society. If you want to read it in English, right-click on the article and it will translate well. http://www.dml.rs/index.php/lat/iskustva-lat/studije-lat/207-almir-mustafic-lingvisticki-raj-lat Almir Mustafic – Fulbright to […]
Two Nations, One Heart – Yarinett Del Carmen Rojas Rodriguez – USA 2019
Who am I now? Now, I can say that I am a renovated person with a new perspective of life. Sharing with people from around the world has made me more flexible and conscious about cultural differences and how I can be adapted. TEA fellows, host families, partners, teachers, and every single person with a […]
Presenting with my Teacher and Professor in DC – Maria Gabriela Portal – USA 2010
My Fulbright experience was the experience any English teacher wants to have in the teaching and learning language career. My experience started in the fall of 2010 in Hamilton College, located in a beautiful town called Clinton, Upstate New York. By having the experience of teaching Spanish and my connection with the culture of the […]
The role of the Commission, Campus and Community in the Success of the Fulbright Program – Divine Tarla – USA 2016
In collaboration with Larry E. Erickson – Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University Ganga M. Hettiarachchi – Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University Lawrence C. Davis – Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University In 1979-80, the US government, in exchanges with the Cameroon government, decided to provide assistance to University Center […]
On a Four Year Wedding Journey to the USA – Hermann Strasser – USA 1968
Being a Fulbright Student mattered a great deal to me in many ways: having the chance to get to know the United States by establishing lifelong personal friendships, by making professional contacts and participating in international meetings. I finished my studies in economics at the University of Innsbruck with the doctoral degree in 1967, […]