This is Marie Papillon's fifth year at l'Etoile du Nord. She came as an
intern in 2004-2005, stayed as a Teaching Assistant the next year and
is now teaching Second grade. She comes from Bordeaux, France but has a dual citizenship, her mother being American (from NYC). She has a B.A. in Chinese, completed a Master in French Language Education in Paris and taught adult classes in France (to Chinese foreigners), and at l'Alliance Française, both in Taiwan and Minneapolis.
She has a French Teaching Licence and  an Elementary Education Teaching Licence from Hamline
University. 

She has lived in Algeria as a kid for 8 years, in the South West of France most of her life; in Taiwan as a college student for a year and is now living in Saint Paul!
She loves to travel and hopes to communicate this passion to her students, teaching them about people, communities and continents this year! She
also hopes to build a friendly community in her classroom, where students
learn to work and play with one another, in French…naturellement!