Annelise Meunier

French, Social Studies

Licence de linguistique, de littérature et des civilisations anglophones

University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Montpellier (France)

Master's Degree in Anglophone Literature and Civilisations

University of Montpellier (France)

Born and raised in France, Annelise really learned English when she came to the US at the age of 18 as a foreign exchange student in Missouri. After that experience that was just "like in the teenage movies", she decided to study the Literature and Civilisation of the Anglophone World. She went to study at the University of Edinburgh as well as at the University of Montpellier where she completed a Master's Degree before moving to London where she started her career as a French language teacher. Then she decided to go to Marseille to get her teaching credentials as a language teacher and after several years of teaching English in middle and high schools in Marseille, she took a 2-year break to go on a road trip around Australia, backpack around New Zealand and travel around South-East Asia.

Annelise came to California in 2016 where she was incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to teach at the preschool in the valley of Yosemite National Park for a year before moving to the Bay Area and joining an immersion school. There, she discovered the power and the beauty of providing education through language immersion. She also had the opportunity of being trained as a Montessori teacher, a career changing experience in its approach to education.

When she is not traveling to different parts of the world, road tripping around Western US and Mexico, backpacking or hiking, Annelise enjoys biking, doing yoga, dancing, learning about other cultures, current news around the world and human impact on the environment (which, to be honest, does provide fascinating ha-ha moments, but not always happy ones!), and most importantly, she loves cooking and spending quality time with her friends gathered around good food!