Julie, Julie, Julie...I loved her in HS and was so glad to reconnect. This was not planned as a two-parter. You'll have to listen to both to hear why.

Julie Malinowski, now Hoefling, and I recorded this over Christmas break 2020, so please forgive any holiday references. In this, we'll talk about her journey, travel, language, French and France, why you should study abroad (or if you can't, I'll add that you should get a foreign exchange student here! talk to me about it, or see the link below--this is another thing I do) trauma, meeting people where they are at, the good C word--community, the value of the theatre, and teaching during covid. To help you get back into the swing of things, this school year, I'm bringing these episodes out now, as well as to go back in time to school year 2020 where everyone was talking about helping out teachers and giving them raises. Can we go back to that? Please?!

She's our second Teacher of the Year award recipient here on Revel Revel. Julie really stresses the importance of teachers investing their lives into the students and how much it means long term and it will warm your heart. Thanks to all of the MCHS teacher!

Julie went here and now I want to too! https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/

National Sexual Assault hotline: https://www.rainn.org/resources

I am a foreign exchange coordinator for EF: https://www.ef.edu/

And boy! Did we talk about books!!

Books we discussed:

Count of Monte Cristo https://bookshop.org/a/8901/9780140449266

Narnia series, particularly The Horse and His Boy https://bookshop.org/a/8901/9780064471060

Elegance of the Hedgehog https://bookshop.org/a/8901/9781933372600

Bringing up Bebe https://bookshop.org/a/8901/9780143122968

Me Talk Pretty One Day https://bookshop.org/a/8901/9780316776967

Almost French https://bookshop.org/a/8901/9781592400829

Burnout: https://bookshop.org/a/8901/9781984818324

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: https://bookshop.org/a/8901/9780385341004

Plus a ton of books from her Classics bookgroup with her daughter.