Rory Ball is a first-year US teaching assistant (USTA) who moved to the Austrian province of Carinthia in order to teach English to students at two of the local secondary schools. After she had time to gain her first impressions into her job as a USTA, we met up with her in the city of Villach to discuss her experience in the classroom and her adventures in Austria.

Caroline Bissonnette is a first-year US teaching assistant (USTA) in the Austrian province of Carinthia, where she has been living and teaching English since the program started on 1 October 2023. Six weeks after she started her job as an English-language teaching assistant, we meet up with her in the Carinthian city of Villach to talk about her experience as a USTA.

Sawyer Moseley is a second-year US teaching assistant (USTA) living and teaching English in Klagenfurt, the capital city of the Austrian province of Carinthia. Two months into Sawyer’s second year as a USTA, we sat down with him to talk about his experience in the classroom and about why he chose to apply for a second year in the USTA Program.

Jacob Selent is a second-year US teaching assistant (USTA) who moved to Austria in fall 2022 to teach English as part of the USTA Program administered by Fulbright Austria. We met up with him in the city of Villach to discuss his experience teaching English to Austrian secondary-school students and his impressions of living in Austria for a second year.