Rose Sybrant, Augsburg Masters of Education student served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Ecuador from 2012-2013. \u00a0She is now using her Spanish skills to teach 5th grade at\u00a0at Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion School. Fulbright does not require teaching experience, but for those majoring in education, it is a great way to get experience abroad!<\/p>\n
How did you decide to apply for a Fulbright? What interested you about the program?<\/strong> What are some of the most meaningful lessons you learned from your year as a Fulbrighter?<\/strong> How did you change or grow from the experience?<\/strong> The Fulbright program is designed to be an inter-cultural exchange. How did you get to know those in your community? How did you learn about your host country and its culture?<\/strong> I learned about Ecuador and its culture simply by participating it. I attended holiday parties and other celebrations at the boarding house. I went to festivals with friends, I tried everything (except for guinea pig, I admit it).<\/p>\n I am a big knitter and I also joined a cross-cultural knitting group. I just found people knitting in a cafe one day and asked if I could join! There were Canadian, American, and Ecuadorian knitters in the group. It was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n What are you doing now? What are your plans for the future?<\/strong> What advice would you give to a current Augsburg student who is considering applying to Fulbright?<\/strong> <\/p>\n To learn more about Fulbright, join us at our Information lunch today, March 27th at 12:30 in Lindell 301!<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rose Sybrant, Augsburg Masters of Education student served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Ecuador from 2012-2013. \u00a0She is now using her Spanish skills to teach 5th grade at\u00a0at Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion School. Fulbright does not require teaching experience, but for those majoring in education, it is a great way to get experience abroad! …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45450,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45443\/revisions\/45450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI was interested in an opportunity to travel and teach abroad. I had heard of the Fulbright program and knew that my participation in the program would help me in my future career. Having studied abroad as a high school student, I also knew that living in another culture provides experiences that cannot be matched here at home!<\/p>\n
\nI learned to be flexible, take things as they come and be open to new experiences. While my time in Ecuador certainly had its ups and downs, I wasn’t afraid to try new things and that made my time richer and much more beneficial. I met lots of different people, many of whom I am still in contact with to this day.<\/p>\n
\nI learned a lot about Ecuador, the culture, its education system and had the chance to improve my Spanish. I now teach in a Spanish immersion school – I would not be here if not for the Fulbright program!<\/p>\n
\nDuring my first several months in Cuenca, Ecuador, I lived in a boarding house for college students. I got to know a lot about student life there. I think it can be easy to live with other Americans, but you don’t learn as fast as if you live with a family or in a boarding house like I did. I worked with the Foreign Languages department at the University of Cuenca where I taught English classes and became acquainted with the faculty there.<\/p>\n
\nI am known as Sra. Sybrant at Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion School. I teach fifth grade and my plan is to keep doing so for as long as they will let me! I am a graduate student at Augsburg, I obtained my teaching license in Elementary Education and Middle School Math in January 2014. I plan on finishing my master’s degree during the next school year.<\/p>\n
\nMy advice is to go for it! The application process is long, but for such a life-changing opportunity, it was totally worth it! I learned a lot about myself while applying and even more during my amazing experience.<\/p>\n