Bright Side With Tekneshia

Andrea Bouchaud began her love affair with France at the tender age of 13. As the granddaughter of a  Frenchman who gave up his language and culture to become American, Andrea always wondered what  it meant to be French besides having a last name that no one could spell or pronounce. French foreign  language studies all throughout high school and college only whetted her thirst for more knowledge. When  she was twenty years old, Andrea studied abroad in Paris for a year at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne,  Paris IV. The experience was not what she hoped it would be. Her first semester in Paris was plagued with  disappointment, frustration and the ups and downs that come with being twenty years old. Andrea almost  gave up on her dream to live in France but persevered and stayed the year. Studying abroad was not just  a chance to connect with her French roots and improve her linguistic skills; It was a chance to grow into  an adult. In 2009, Andrea graduated from Rutgers with a Bachelors degree in Fr