Introduction

When I tell people that I received a Fulbright Grant to teach English in Germany, I tend to get questions about what the Grant really is...Fulbright grants are provided by the U.S. Department of State. The Fulbright Program includes a number of different grants and was founded in 1946. My grant is for an English Teaching Assistantship. The Program was named after Senator J. William Fulbright. Senator Fulbright said this about the Fulbright Program: "Fostering leadership, learning and empathy between cultures was and remains the purpose of the international scholarship program." To find more info on the Fulbright Program click here.

Through this grant, I'm going to be living in Altdorf, Germany, a smaller town a little outside of the city Nuremberg (Nürnberg). Altdorf is in southern Germany and in the state of Bavaria (Bayern). The photo above is Nürnberg's cathedral. I took this photo when I was studying in Germany in 2008.

This opportunity is, as cliché as it sounds, truly a dream come true for me. I have a passion for other cultures and foreign languages. That is why I am very excited to be teaching German students English and deepening my knowledge of the German people and their language.

This blog is for my own records, but it is more importantly for my friends and family to keep updated on my time in Germany, and I'll be hopefully presenting it to students and faculty of my former high school and college when I return to the United States next July. I am still working on some the blog's layout,etc. so it is a work in progress.

Right now I'm home in West Harrison, Indiana. I've been juggling a few part-time jobs this summer and visiting with my friends and family, and, of course, preparing for Germany. Now I only have three weeks until I leave for Germany on August 30th. Now down to business with packing and saying goodbyes...