Across my Bridge: The experienced perception of two female adults of the European and African cultures in a didactic situation

Friendship and bonds are forming over continents, regions, language, color and culture. So also are enemies and separations. All these are formed on the perceptions of the other person or people. These perceptions most often are transmitted by the interpretation of the other person’s language and its semantics, background, the cultural life of the adults including their marriage styles, their family ties, their parenting and self perception of the people involved in the relationship. This study examines these dynamics in the relationship of two professors from two different cultures, backgrounds, the bonding influences and the learning or re-learning opportunities that have occurred in the relationship experiences and especially takes cognizance of the learning, educational, instructive, informative, and teaching and learning experiences. Their scientific research area, didactic and teaching and learning methods, creates the basis for this fruitful cooperation and friendship.