Category Archives: Eisenhower Fellowship

So, off we go. I had a very busy day today, starting with Susan Butts of Dow Chemicals. I had actually met her before, as she was at the lunch for Janez given by the Slovenian Ambassador when we were in Washington in February. She deals with external science and technology programs – basically university/industryContinue reading “Washington – Day 1”

So the whole thing has started in earnest. I’m here in Washington getting ready for a busy few days in the capital of the free world next week. We arrived in a limo-minibus this afternoon, which was quite fun. We couldn’t all check in as our rooms weren’t ready, so we walked into Georgetown. DeemaContinue reading “Hitting the road”

So that’s it. Preparation phase is over and we are on our way! Last day of the seminar (Friday) was totally hectic, with a last couple of sessions, including a sort of team-building exercise. Then it was getting sorted, going through the blue sheets with Tiffany, taking stuff down to EF house to leave itContinue reading “Ready, steady…GO!”

Still in Philadelphia, but only for a couple more days. This bit of the trip is funny – we’re all here, getting to know each other, going out for dinner, theatre, dancing; but we know that  this is only for a few days and soon we’ll be heading out on the road and at certainContinue reading “Coming up with exciting names for these posts is getting challenging!”

After a fun day on 25 March, reported above, we had a free night, so I went to the theatre with 7 of the other fellows. Good to see me moving outside my comfort zone, n’est-ce pas??!! We had a later start on Wednesday and had a great session with Viveca Novak of factcheck.org, which basciallyContinue reading “Marmite!”

Our first offical week starts here, though in typical (I am coming to learn) Eisenhower fashion, they managed to squeeze in a few meetings before the beginning of the seminar. On Saturday we were invited to a US fellow’s home out in New Jersey. Before we went to her house, her husband showed us aroundContinue reading “Getting to know each other – and ourselves”

Am a happy happy lady cos just found that dancing with the stars is on!! priscilla presley, shannon doherty, penn off penn and teller,  monica seles and lots of yanks I’ve never heard of! But it’s the same music and we all know how that affects us don’t we! Anyway, this post was about the things I’mContinue reading “What divides us”

So today was the first real day of the programme. Everyone has arrived now, and we had the first session of the opening seminar this afternoon. To catch up, after I’d written about the shopping and so on from Saturday, a number of us got in a bus and headed to South Jersey for dinnerContinue reading “Getting going in earnest”

This morning we did a trolley tour of Philadelphia – a lovely way to see a bit more of the city. After that I walked down to 4th street to the guitar shop Mark Carnesi told me about, but they didn’t have an acoustic bass, so I went for Philly Cheesesteak for lunch, then walked upContinue reading “When Saturday Comes”

So, been a few days. 19 March I had a few meetings, firstly with the Eisenhower President (who, it turned out did non-proliferation while I was in RELEX/A – I knew I recognised the name!) and then at Rohm and Haas, inventors of Plexiglas. That evening we had a progressive dinner laid on by theContinue reading “Discovering small-town America”