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Grantees on a trip with the Fulbright Alumni Association  | | Gunnar at Audholtshjaleiga talking w. grantees |
The newly founded Fulbright Alumni Association in Iceland invited the U.S. grantees on a daytrip Sunday, February 8.
A small bus took the group to the south coast of Iceland where various places of interest were visited such as the Agricultural School in Hveragerði and the new geysers which appeared after the big earthquake in June and are just above the town of Hveragerði. The group was invited to the horse breeding farm at Auðholtshjáleiga and after that a visit to the Ghost museum in Stokkseyri.
At the end of the day Ragnhildur, the chairman of the board invited the group to her home for a traditional Icelandic feast of ram‘s testicles, smoked lamb meat and lobster. More pictures from the trip can be found on our website´s
photo page.
| Fulbright Alumni Association  | | First board of the Alumni Association: Þóra Arnórsdóttir, Ragnhildur Sigurðardóttir, Haukur Ingi Jónasson, Elinóra Sigurðardóttir, Anna Linda Bjarnadóttir, Julian M. D‘Arcy, Jón Karl Helgason is absent. |
The first Annual Meeting of the Association was held on the 18. of September 2008, but the Association was founded on March 23rd of this year. The Association welcomes Fulbright Grant recipients that have received grants from the Icelandic Fulbright Commission, both Icelandic and American. During the past 50 years, the Fulbright Commission has supported a little less than 1300 grantees, more than 700 Icelandic and 500 American.
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