For years I helped communities stay well. This year I'm moving my family to Texas, into a system I don't understand at all.
I'm Rainer Mere, a psychologist from Tallinn, headed to Austin for a Fulbright year. This site follows it as it happens, the research underneath and the letters I write from inside it. Right now it's all beginning: the boxes, the paperwork, the goodbyes. How it ends, I have no idea.
The newsletter
Kirjad Austinist
Letters from Austin.
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The year
A family, a new country, and a year to learn a place from scratch. The story, as it unfolds.
The Fulbright Year → -
The work
A PhD on why the same good programme turns out so differently from one community to the next, run inside a five-country EU research project.
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The letters
Kirjad Austinist: letters from inside the year. This is where you follow along.
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