Julie Valluet is from Blois, France, which is in the castle region of the Loire Valley. She graduated in 2006 from the University of Orleans, France with a Master's degree in teaching French as a foreign language (FLE). In the past 5 years, she has been working with many students of different ages, origins and backgrounds, including adults while studying in France. Then she moved to Edina, Minnesota as a teacher trainee in a 1st grade classroom. She also taught in an American high school in Minneapolis as a French teacher trainee for students from 8th to 12th grade.

Julie's interests include cats, observing nature, swimming, writing, reading, singing and dancing. She likes talking to her family in France through her webcam and seeing her little cousins grow up.

Julie feels very thankful for the values of empathy, compassion and sensitivity that she has learned through her family and experiences, and also through her favorite books, films, and songs. These values are important in her life and she wishes to share them with her students.

"We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said: "Love is the only rational act." in Tuesdays with Morrie, M. Albom

"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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