Since moving back to Pittsburgh nearly a year ago, I’ve been exploring different places around the city with my husband, Fernando, and I can’t say enough how much I’ve enjoyed exploring this amazing place that I call home! I see this place with such a new perspective and appreciation, and often feel like I’m seeing everything for the very first time.

Florida Culture for Your Calendar for the Week of January 5 by Josh Garrick

Jan 7 – Free Reading with Ringling Clowns at the Library

Florida Culture for the Week of December 29 by Josh Garrick

Dec 31 – The Orlando Museum of Art's New Year’s Eve Party

Shaping the Way We Teach English, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) prepared by and for English-teaching professionals, has launched for 2015 through a partnership with the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the University of Oregon and Coursera. The free program is an opportunity for c

The application deadline for the 2015-2016 Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Abroad scholarship program is January 7, 2015.

From Hognfjorden, Vesterålen. Beautiful auroras this week  - taken from my house, just 100 meters down, by the sea.

Marc Freccero - note this name, for he is making a difference. As we all know, travel can be done a zillion ways - each person has their own ways of traveling. That is what makes reading and writing about travel so interesting - the enormous variety of viewpoints and ways we expeirence the world.

Highlights from #WHTravelBloggers #StudyAbroadBecause and reflections on international travel in the USA and USians abroad. Tuesday, December 23 hangout, 10am Las Vegas, 1pm New York City.

IREX and the United States Department of State are pleased to announce the launch of the 2015 application cycle to the Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) Program.

When I was in graduate school, I lived and learned amidst dozens of languages, cultures,  people. There were many international scholars in our program, who braved the cold Minnesota winters in search of knowledge, community, and camaraderie. What I loved most about that was the chance to learn, in-depth, about the world from a diverse group of people.