Emily Explores

Category: May 2025

  • Ten months? Already?

    Ten months? Already?

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    wickerem98
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    I arrived in Villavicencio last August, I blinked maybe two or three times, and boom—the Fulbright grant is over. I am officially a Fulbright alumni. Not even a current grantee. Not even employed in the slightest, at the moment. Ten months in Colombia came and went, just like that. In all honesty, I don’t feel…

  • The beginning of the (Fulbright) end

    The beginning of the (Fulbright) end

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    wickerem98
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    Mostly written on May 15 and completed on May 19, 2025. Today marks the halfway point of May, and May 30 will mark the end of my ten-month Fulbright grant. Of course, I decided to leave the country a bit early to attend my brother’s wedding in Pittsburgh and then come straight back to Colombia…