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Maylen Rafuls

French Language & Culture France
Hometown: Caibarién, Cuba

Maylen's Program

Maylén Rafuls Rosa is a high school French teacher at San Ysidro High School in San Diego, CA. Originally from Cuba, Maylén has nine years’ experience in education as a French, Spanish and Math teacher. A graduate of Princeton (Comparative Literature, 2007) and Stanford (M.A. in Educa­tion, 2012), Maylén will be starting a PhD in Leadership studies at the University of San Diego this fall.

Maylén first started traveling with students in 2016, when she took a group to Seville, Spain. She’s a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, having completed her two-year service in Mauritania, where she managed a Girls’ Mentoring Center. As a language lover and world traveler, some of her favorite things include discovering new cultures and studying languages. She speaks English, Spanish and French fluently and dabbles in Italian, Arabic and Portuguese.

Posts

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Celebrating Eïd in Toulouse (Student Takeover)

By Maylen Rafuls at CIEE

Every session, we program leaders can invite students to post blogs and share their student perspective on the program. For my student takeover blog, I chose Yasmin and asked her... keep reading

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Cultural Dialogue Leads to Empathy in Toulouse

By Maylen Rafuls at CIEE

“A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's... keep reading

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Toulouse Tree Talk with Mathilde

By Maylen Rafuls at CIEE

Toulouse students (and I) were treated to a truly unique experience this Monday when Mathilde Baud led us on a Tree Tour of the city. Meet Mathilde. A native French... keep reading

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Courage in Toulouse

By Maylen Rafuls at CIEE

I couldn’t ask for a better summer job and I couldn’t be more grateful for the wonderful group of students that has joined us in Toulouse this summer. Each and... keep reading

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Looking Forward to a Better You

By Maylen Rafuls at CIEE

Hello everyone! My name is Maylén and I am one of the program leaders for Toulouse Session 1. I am very excited to accompany these incredible 44 students on this... keep reading

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