Fulbright seminar

Hello everyone,

I am back from Boulder (Colorado) where I attended a Fulbright seminar on "The changing face of the American West". There were 148 students from all over the world representing 63 different countries! My roommate, Lorna, was from the Philippines. For the school visit (on Friday morning we went into high schools to share our experience with American students), my group was composed of people from Greece, Iraq, Germany and Zambia. On Friday night we had dinner with an American family. I went there with Alejandro from Argentina, Gentiana from Albania and Matthias from Germany. The couple hosting us had invited some friends (5 other couples). We spent a great evening hearing -- among some of the stories -- how our hosts met (during a Fulbright seminar 30 years ago ;-)). Alejandro gave us an idea of how Argentinean guys play guitar and sing for a girl...

The seminar was intense but we had a lot of fun and learned a great deal about each other's country as well as about Western America. American Fulbright alumni were there too: very interesting to hear where they went in Europe and what for.

On Saturday afternoon we went into the Rocky Mountains National Park: amazing! If you want an idea of how it looks, open a "Yakari" comic book ;-) Dr William Travis, Professor of geography at Boulder University, accompanied us. We received a lot of
explanations.

These four days have been very rich and I am sure one never forgets such an experience! I wish everybody could live that.

Cheers,

Marie