by jinkimn | Apr 28, 2025 | 2014, Recipient's Blog
Heart-warming stories, awe-inspiring photographs, cute yet meaningful trinkets… these are the souvenirs that friends and family expect me to return home with after my Fulbright fellowship year in Jordan. Their expectation, however, is mistaken on two fronts. ...
by jinkimn | Apr 28, 2025 | 2014, Recipient's Blog
Even as the sun sinks behind the buildings, life flourishes in the streets of the Hashemi district of Amman. Crowds churn as families return from Sunday mass or head off to Maghrib prayer; local eateries ready their stoves for rounds of dinner. We watch the bustle...
by jinkimn | Apr 28, 2025 | 2014, Recipient's Blog
It’s hot. No, not just hot but it’s humid and boiling hot. It is 1:55 pm on a Monday and I just had a great big lunch for $3. Now I am walking, drenched in sweat, to Santiago Vila, a school in an underprivileged area in Ibagué, Colombia. As I walk up the steep hill I...
by jinkimn | Apr 28, 2025 | 2014, Recipient's Blog
“My father’s name is _____.” As I noticed this single sentence hiding beneath a conspicuous strip of white paper loosely taped to the poster, I wondered why it had been so haphazardly effaced from the list of English sentences we were to teach the children that...
by jinkimn | Apr 28, 2025 | 2013, Recipient's Blog
To what end? This was the question I would continually ask myself throughout the year that passed, from the day I submitted my Pre-Application at UC Irvine to the moment I was notified of my selection for the 2013-2014 Fulbright U.S. Student Program in Jordan. ...
