Expanding My Context of Art, By Antonio McAfee, 2009-2010, South Africa
South African contemporary art and my experience with facilitating arts programming were the basis of my Fulbright project in Johannesburg. These interests started while I was an undergraduate at the...
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Fulbright-Millennial Trains Project Participants
The U.S. Department of State selected the following six Fulbright Foreign Students to participate in the third Millennial Trains Project (MTP) voyage across the United States — leaving from Los...
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Fulbright-MTP: Myth-busting in the American South
Throughout my time as a Fulbright Student, I’ve had a wonderful opportunity to interact with other Fulbright Students from around the world. Each time it is eye-opening and a learning experience to...
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Help Us, to Help You, to Help Others
Receiving a Fulbright U.S. Student grant fulfilled a lifelong dream of working in one of the most challenging communities in the world: a South African township. The grant allowed me to research the...
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Finding Our Voices in South Africa
To me, writing is me. It is me listening To what I have to say, To what I want to say, To what my heart says. – Gugu, age 16 I was not your typical Fulbrighter. I came to the program...
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Time is Liquid, Time is Gold…Time is Liquid Gold
The bell rings. Moments later, I hear the shuffling of 1,300 pairs of shoes as I brace myself for yet another lunch break spent working in the library; our library—the one at Dr. Blok Secondary School...
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Playtime in Port Elizabeth
By day, I am a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at Paterson High School in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. By night, I am a hula hoop teacher, circus performer, and fire dancer. My hobbies may seem...
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A Year of Knee Research and Social Outreach in the Rainbow Nation
My Fulbright in Stellenbosch, South Africa, was divided into two primary areas: research and community outreach. The research portion of my fellowship focused on knee replacement implants and the...
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Pushing Boundaries to Realize My Fulbright Dream
My name is Darriel McBride, and I am the fifth of six children. I am the youngest girl and the first in my family to attend college. I was raised by a single mother and welfare recipient battling...
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Plants, People, and the Mother City
Welcome to the Mother City. These are the first words you read walking out of the airport in Cape Town, South Africa. No one could have prepared me for that feeling, stepping onto the soil of the...
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