by Sean | Apr 12, 2016 | Fulbright, Learning, Pschyology, Teaching English
Do you ever notice that when you’re with your friends or family that you change the way you speak? You might have a shared language or gestures that you only break out around them. You end up matching the patterns of the people you’re around, and it puts...
by Sean | Apr 1, 2016 | Fulbright, Marketing
The best pranks cause your friends to question their sanity. They are subtle and take place over a long time, slowly building. In celebration of April Fools I want to share with you a prank I ran last year – it ran for about 6 months. It all started with a race....
by Sean | Mar 21, 2016 | Community, Fulbright, Sri Lanka
After you give blood in Sweden they’ll send you a text message when it is used to save someone’s life. New Story Charity will trace every dollar you donate and show you the house you helped to build. This direct accountability from action to impact makes a...
by Sean | Jul 15, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Travel
Cultural diplomacy – the attempt by a government to win the hearts and minds of foreign nationals – has a long tradition in the history of the world. Akin to an early form of globalization, cultural diplomacy served as a tool of statecraft for ancient civilizations of...
by Sean | Jul 14, 2013 | Business, Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Travel
I received a lot of questions about the Fulbright when I decided to take the grant, many friends and family wanted to know what this would do for me, how would it help you I couldn’t answer those questions when I took the grant, but after months of living in Sri...
by Sean | Jun 29, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Trinco Jesuit Academy
“We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves…” -Seth Godin “Thank goodness I never went to school. It would have rubbed off some of the originality” -Beatrix Potter These quotes greeted my business...