On Monday, August 2, I and approximately 90 other teachers from India, Hungary, Czech Republic, Mexico, Switzerland, France, the UK, and the US gathered in Washington DC to meet one another and more importantly to realize the journey on which we were about to embark. The Fulbright Classroom Teacher Exchange was started in 1946 by Senator Fulbright of Arkansas in an attempt to promote goodwill and foster understanding between nations in an attempt to avoid those conflicts of earlier decades that had led to two world wars.

Perhaps the most important event of this week, however, was meeting my exchange partner, Ms. Gill Butler, who will live my life for the next year. She will live in my apartment. She will teach in my classroom. She will walk in my shoes, and I hers. This blog will follow all of the mishaps, all of the experiences, all of the learning, all of the fun that this year will hold.