One of the new experiences I had as a Fulbright scholar in Poland was to join a Facebook community. I suppose it was inevitable that I would eventually join Facebook. My daughter is a teenager, and I had dragged her across the world, far from her friends and family. I am fortunate that she agrees to my monitoring her FB activity (also known as being her "friend"), and I enjoyed the terrific pictures and funny notes she posted about our life in Poland and our travels in Europe. But the first reason I made a Facebook page was to be able to join the "Polish Fulbrighters" Facebook group. I was able to use it to get help before I even arrived in Poland with my family, but the truly fascinating aspect of the group was sharing our experiences during our time abroad. One highlight was the Fulbrighter who posted an article about a Catholic school in southern Poland where the administration had been censured for their rite-of-passage ritual. (It involved licking whipped ...
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