Until now, most of my blog entries that have had to do with my intercultural experiences have focused on the time I spent living in South Korea. That experience was so significant that I’ve blogged about it a few times: once in a blog entry that required a part one and a part two, and once to share the news that some of my thoughts about the experience had been published in a journal. I’ve also written about my experience in South Korea more briefly in passing, as when I wrote a blog entry about some pieces of Korean literature, or when I wrote about significant dates in Korean history, or when I wrote about my love of lifelong learning.
I’ve had other intercultural experiences though, and I’ve written about some of them in passing, too (such as when I wrote about wildfires in Australia). This time I want to focus on an earlier intercultural experience: meeting a girl I knew when I was in elementary school when she participated in the Fresh Air Fund and visited my hometown from New York City. Although our interaction was brief, it was impactful for me.
I can’t remember the exact year the photos I’m sharing here were taken, but in the photos, I’m the taller one, and the other girl I’m with was the visitor from New York named Rhonda (the dog was named Nicky). If you’d like more information about what our intercultural relationship was like, you can read about it in the introduction to my doctoral dissertation, specifically pages 12-13 (and if you keep reading through page 18, you can learn about some of the other intercultural experiences I’ve had, including my aforementioned times in Australia and South Korea, as well as time I spent in the former USSR).
What intercultural experiences have you had? How have they impacted your life?
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Karen and Rhonda (Personal collection/Karen P. Peirce) |
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Rhonda, Karen, and Nicky (Personal collection/Karen P. Peirce) |
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