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East Greenwich Native Wins Fulbright to Teach in France

Becca Szabo, Neighbor

Breanna Lynch, a senior at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. and a native of East Greenwich, R.I., has won a Fulbright award to teach English in France.

Lynch, a French studies and secondary education major, developed her love of the French language at the age of 12, when her older sister Stephanie taught her a collection of French words and phrases.

Next year, Lynch will be teaching in the Upper Normandy region of France through a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA).

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“I’m so happy to be placed there,” Lynch said. “It was my first choice. I've done some projects on Normandy in both high school and college, and I've always wanted to visit the region. I'll be placed either at a ‘collège’ (middle school) or a ‘lycée’ (high school).”

Read more about Breanna and her Fulbright plans at wheatoncollege.edu/news/2014/04/16/vive-la-france/.

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