Mariel Tavakoli is the current EducationUSA Student Adviser at the Fulbright Commission and was a former English teaching assistant (ETA) in Znojmo (2013/2014). Read on to learn how Mariel’s Fulbright experience changed her life and continues to inspire her work in writing education and supporting Czech students as they apply for studies in the USA. Next month, Mariel will begin an Essay Workshop with English language teachers and previous ETA mentors representing Czech secondary schools around the country. In Summer 2012 I had just returned from my above-and-beyond amazing semester abroad in Prague, which was the first time I had ever visited, let alone lived in the Czech Republic. It had been on a program weekend visit to Český Krumlov that I first imagined myself as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA), living in a smaller Czech town outside of Prague. Everyday of that summer after, I would come home from my summer internship to sit with my computer, working on draft a...
Jaké je to být Fulbrighterem. What it is like to be a Fulbrighter.