American Agent, Hungarian Luck Michael Eldridge Fulbright Scholar University of Szeged Fall 2004.

American Agent, Hungarian Luck

Michael EldridgeFulbright Scholar

University of SzegedFall 2004

Why Hungary?

• Jim Campbell and my lucky break

• Alex Kremer (Kremer Sándor)

• Philosophy and American Studies

• University of Szeged

Some Impressions/Learnings

• Students as absorbers of information• “English-speaking” lawyer on train• Kidney stone & medical care• I am more American--with my problem-solving,

can-do attitude--than I realized.• (So I guess I was an American agent after all.)• I am also getting old: young people gave up their

seats for me on trams and trains and helped self-sufficient me with my luggage.