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Marissa Ortiz: The Five-Minute Fulbright Musical

Maybe you’ve wondered what life is like as a Fulbright ETA but your attention span demands song and pictures and anecdotes of cumulatively no more than five minutes.

Well today is your lucky day.

For our Fulbright midyear conference, we were asked to prepare a five-minute photo slideshow from our first five months as English Teaching Assistants.  The result seemed like an entertaining and fairly accurate summary of my life thus far here, so I’ve finally pulled together a recording to share with all of you.

Enjoy!


This article is taken from the blog of Marissa Ortiz, 2012-2013 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in the Czech Republic. 
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