{"id":3488,"date":"2019-09-05T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2019-09-26T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T13:53:35","slug":"living-in-riga-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-fulbright-eta-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/living-in-riga-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-fulbright-eta-in-latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in R\u012bga: a Day in the Life of a Fulbright ETA in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2013 by&nbsp;<strong>Khalid Sheikh<\/strong>  \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This Spring, Fulbridge invited Fulbright grantees and alumni\u2013 ETAs, researchers, foreign scholars, and FLTAs\u2013 to submit a video, essay, photo essay, or photo that reflected <em>A Day in the Life<\/em> of their Fulbright experience. <\/p><p>These submissions could be internally or externally focused and aim teach audiences something new about the authors&#8217; host countries.  <\/p><p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/blog\/special-features\/\" target=\"_blank\">The full series will be located here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I initially recorded this video as a way to show my friends back home what I had been doing during my year in Latvia. To me, this video shows everything I loved about living in Latvia: the beauty of Riga\u2019s Old Town, my amazing students and coworkers, and my fellow Fulbrighters. Enjoy!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Day In the Life\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Q8j40IaLeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><em data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Khalid graduated in 2018 from the University of Houston with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in History. He worked as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Riga at Riga Stradins University and Riga Classical Gymnasium. Upon his completion of the Fulbright, Khalid returned to Texas to attend medical school.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013 by&nbsp;Khalid Sheikh \u2013 This Spring, Fulbridge invited Fulbright grantees and alumni\u2013 ETAs, researchers, foreign scholars, and FLTAs\u2013 to submit a video, essay, photo essay, or photo that reflected A Day in the Life of their Fulbright experience. These submissions could be internally or externally focused and aim teach audiences&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[372],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5426.jpeg?fit=500%2C375&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3626,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions\/3626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbridge.org\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}