{"id":46486,"date":"2018-07-26T15:23:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/?p=46486"},"modified":"2020-01-28T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T20:00:13","slug":"meet-the-newest-auggie-fulbright-scholars-madeleine-oswood-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/2018\/07\/26\/meet-the-newest-auggie-fulbright-scholars-madeleine-oswood-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Auggie Fulbright Scholars: Madeleine Oswood ’18"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Madeleine<\/a>The quietly wise Madeleine Oswood just graduated a few weeks ago, but studying at Augsburg was just the start of her adventure. She studied Mathematics and Spanish, graduated with summa cum laude<\/em> distinction, and in September will be in Gijon, a city in the Asturias region of Spain teaching English as a Fulbright Scholar. Amidst sorting out her visa at the Capital for the coming year, she sat down and chatted with us about her placement, what she\u2019s excited to experience, and philosophized on being a Fulbright.<\/p>\n

Asturias lies in the northern portion of the country; it is a coastal province on the Bay of Biscay, facing France. According to Oswood, the Fulbright program in the area is relatively small, and still very new. \u201cI\u2019m one of 14 Fulbright Scholars going to Asturias this year, and I\u2019ll be part of the second cohort ever,\u201d she said. \u201cIt feels like I\u2019m helping forge a bond between Asturias and Fulbright.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile in Spain, I hope to travel a lot and improve my Spanish,\u201d said Oswood, who has had an interest in travel since she was very young. She told us about how she used to watch travel shows and Discovery Channel documentaries on faraway places\u00a0and owned a collection of travel encyclopedias which she perused as a child.<\/p>\n

\"Madeleine<\/a><\/p>\n

Oswood has extensively practiced her everyday Spanish skills. \u201cMy mom speaks Spanish, and the town I grew up in has a high Spanish-speaking population.\u00a0 I started learning in high school, but I only did it because I wanted to go on the class trip to Spain,\u201d she said. \u201cIn Spain, though, I fell in love with the language.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to experiencing the country without a tour group.\u201d<\/p>\n

While attending\u00a0Augsburg, Oswood spent a semester in Argentina, living in Buenos Aires with a host mom who didn\u2019t speak English. \u201cThe experience made me get over the embarrassment of asking people to repeat themselves, and I got really good at using the polite form of \u2018what?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was hiking in Patagonia, I actually stopped taking pictures. Instead, I said to myself, \u2018I\u2019m going to remember this moment,\u2019 and took a mental snapshot. I plan to do the same in Spain: just enjoy moments as they happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the whole experience of being named a Fulbright Scholar, Oswood said, \u201cIt feels like a dream.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t think it was a possibility and I didn\u2019t want to bank on it. I keep thinking about how if I told myself in my freshman year of high school that I\u2019d be moving to Spain in the future, I wouldn\u2019t have believed it. But I\u2019m excited. I love kids, volunteering, and I\u2019m hoping to form relationships with students and show them what the U.S. is, explain its politics, and show a different face of the U.S. than what most people know.\u201d<\/p>\n

To others thinking about starting the application, Oswood encourages putting in the time, \u201cI actually enjoyed writing the statements, even though I rewrote many drafts with the help of the URGO office. With Fulbright and summa, <\/em>both felt like a nice bookmark where I got to look at all of the experiences Augsburg has given me. I thought about how my life looked thus far and helped me organize trajectories for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Be sure to keep up with the blog to hear about Madeleine and the other Fulbrighters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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