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August 2022 graduate Sara Marc will soon be heading to France as a TAPIF recipient. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sara Marc has been on quite the emotional rollercoaster.<\/p>\n

Marc, an August 2022 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga graduate, was recently accepted into the Teaching Assistant Program in France, better known as TAPIF\u2014an initiative coordinated through the Cultural Services division of the French Embassy in the United States.<\/p>\n

Just days after learning that news, she found out she had also been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to France after previously being told she was an alternate selection.<\/p>\n

Electing which offer to take wasn\u2019t simple.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tough decision; I had two different placements and I had to decide,\u201d Marc said. \u201cBoth options are prestigious and I was going to have the same experience working as a teaching assistant, but I decided to go where I wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

This fall, she is headed to Bordeaux, France, to be a teaching assistant and U.S. cultural ambassador as part of the TAPIF program. She has been placed in the Acad\u00e9mie de Bordeaux at the secondary school level (middle and\/or high school).<\/p>\n

While Marc gets to list Fulbright on her resume, the opportunities TAPIF has to offer, including \u201chelp with your master\u2019s and programs where you can go back to France,\u201d were too attractive to pass up. \u201cThey even have a whole network of people you can talk to who have been through this experience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

According to the program\u2019s website, there are more than 30,000 TAPIF alumni across the U.S.<\/p>\n

A 2018 Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences graduate, Marc majored in French at UTC\u2014receiving a bachelor\u2019s degree in modern and classical languages and literatures with minors in education and political science. Her time as a UTC student included a study abroad semester in Lyon, France, in 2021 and being selected as a Gilman Scholar to France\u2014a scholarship she had to decline due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.<\/p>\n

Marc is a first-generation college graduate and second-generation immigrant. Her parents, Lucner Marc and Pauline Mathurin, were born in Haiti and came to the U.S. in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

Being the first in her family to graduate college was a big deal, \u201cespecially for my mom because she is a stickler for education,\u201d Marc said. \u201cShe didn\u2019t get that opportunity to finish her education. She had to raise kids. She was learning a different language and had to get a job. She was supporting family back home. Because of her, I got to graduate college.\u201d<\/p>\n

While both of her parents speak French\u2014one of Haiti\u2019s national languages\u2014Marc said it wasn\u2019t spoken much around her growing up because her parents were working on their English.<\/p>\n

It was in the classroom where she became fluent in the French language.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been taking it since I was in kindergarten. I got lucky that I went to a school that offered it that early,\u201d Marc said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ultimate goal\u2014and the whole purpose that I figured out throughout my four years at UTC\u2014is that I want to implement foreign language in all schools as early as kindergarten because I got that opportunity. I went to school with so many students and people who came in later in middle school\u2014and even high school\u2014who never had a chance to study a foreign language. That was so crazy to me because I was taking it for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marc said her long-term goals include earning a master\u2019s degree and working as a French teacher. The TAPIF opportunity will allow her to bring back curriculum education ideas for introducing foreign languages in all schools as early as kindergarten.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching abroad is going to help me learn a little bit more about the foreign language curriculum,\u201d she said, \u201cand how teaching English to early kids and younger kids, how it works and how I could bring that back to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she plans to lean on and build upon the experiences she learned during her study abroad excursion to Lyon in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first experience going to France was my first time out of the country,\u201d Marc said, \u201cand I got to learn about how they live their lives and how to live the life of someone who is French. I got to experience life using the metro and not being dependent so much on cars.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my first time using all of the education that I learned all of my life and implementing it in the country that I\u2019ve been learning the language for and the history about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Immersing herself in a different culture didn\u2019t come without missteps.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was having trouble finding an umbrella,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI was asking for an umbrella, but because my accent was so different, they were like, \u2018I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u2019 I had to be patient, let go of my ego, and be like, \u2018I\u2019m not as good as I thought I was. I can be better and this is what I\u2019m here for.\u2019 That\u2019s what a lot of it taught me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Karen Casey Casebier, associate professor of French, was Marc\u2019s UTC French instructor for all four years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so happy for her and proud of her accomplishments. This will open many, many doors,\u201d Casebier said. \u201cIn terms of her career, many employers are looking for something on a student\u2019s resume that will stand out. She will be able to say not only that she has studied abroad but that she has worked abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot many people have working in a foreign country on their resume.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casebier emphasized the development Marc experienced during her study abroad trip to France.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe came back completely changed as a student,\u201d Casebier said. \u201cAfter spending that semester in Lyon, she spoke so well. I mean, she really upped her French game. When she left, she spoke French well for an American student, but when she came back, she had jumped ahead at least a level and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marc credited Casebier for the ability to write the 500-word essay in French that was part of the TAPIF application.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe gets you writing essays,\u201d Marc said, \u201cand my last senior paper was about 12 pages in French on a medieval story. She got me so accustomed to writing in French that 300 to 500 words was nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marc became the third recent UTC student to earn Fulbright recognition during the 2022-2023 award cycle\u2014joining Jared Steiman<\/strong><\/a>, a 2020 graduate who will be teaching in Mexico, and May 2022 graduate Oleander Reagan-Artemis<\/strong><\/a>, who will be teaching in Romania.<\/p>\n

She expressed gratitude to Steiman for helping her tell her story in her applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was honestly an angel,\u201d Marc said. \u201cHe\u2019s a great storyteller, and he knows how to take the words you say and make them beautiful. I don\u2019t know if I would have made it this far without him. I give him so much thanks for helping me maneuver my words and make them powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super proud of her more than anything. I know how hard she\u2019s worked to get this,\u201d Steiman said. \u201cWe were there (in the Guerry Center) until 5 a.m. when she finally submitted her application. It was a lot of back and forth of her reading me things she was writing, just a lot of hitting the emotional note it takes to make this application successful.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see her get it and be able to celebrate parallel to her celebration is really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn More<\/h4>\n

Visit UTC<\/a><\/p>\n

UTC Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures<\/a><\/p>\n

Teaching Assistant Program in France<\/a><\/p>\n

Cultural Services | French Embassy, U.S. <\/a><\/p>\n

How to apply<\/a><\/p>\n

Photos courtesy of Sara Marc<\/h4>\n

Sara Marc traveled to Lyon, France, for a study abroad opportunity as a UTC undergraduate.<\/p>\n

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