Visit with returning Fulbright Family

In July our whole family had the opportunity to visit with the Gartland family for the afternoon. Myles and his family had spent the 2009-10 year in Gdansk Poland and had just returned home to Olathe KS. The kids played while the adults talked about what we needed to know that wasn't necessarily in the Handbook. I gained a much better sense of what to expect with the students and how to handle textbooks, graded assignments, etc. There are apparently quite a few bureaucratic hoops to jump through immediately upon arrival...another physical courtesy of the university health care center, signing lots of papers (all in Polish) for stipends, getting bus passes, getting a tax id number, etc. They told us very clearly: you need to be flexible and patient. (Guess I'll keep working on cultivating these qualities - ha!) - Carolyn