24/06/2026
[Participants] No one had warned a participant in our Job + J1 Visa Program about Houston. They had been told about the heat, the traffic, and an immense city that many describe as a place of passage, but not about its ability to surprise quietly. They arrived with few expectations, and perhaps that is why the city began to reveal itself in a different way: through the extraordinary collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, the galleries of the Museum of Natural Science, the unexpected scale of Memorial Park, and those bayous that turn urban infrastructure into landscape, path, and memory.
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