(the 3èmes euro met their new American assistant last Monday, they interviewed her and wrote her portrait)

(Northwestern University pictured above with the Chicago skyline in the background)

- Her name is Christine, she's from Chicago.

- She's 20, she was born on 29 th of October.

- She studies sociology at North Western University

- She has one sister, Nicole, who is 16, and a bird named/called Elliot.

-Her parents live in the south west of Chicago but they are from the Phillipines . -They went  to the US after they finished medical school.

-She has come to France for a semester.

-She has an American boyfriend

Her personality　

- She's positive, hardworking, and she likes making the others laugh.

- She's keen on listening to music and she practises some sports (Martial Arts　: Tae Kwan DO, kick boxing (she has just started), and she played tennis a lot when she was younger. She likes Djokovic,but thinks he's less funny than before. He's got an inflated ego now.

- Her favorite season is fall (=autumn ).

- She's crazy about food, she loves «　raclette　».

- She loves the TV series «　Modern Families　».

- She wishes she could live without her phone and her computer but for the moment she can't.

- She's crazy about rock, rap and electric music.

- Her favorite color is red.Her native city　

- She thinks that Chicago isn't a dangerous city.

- It seems to her that Chicago is cleaner and less rude than New York.

Her present life　

- In Nantes, she lives in a flat near «　le Parc de Procé　».

- It's her first time in France

-She chose to come to Nantes because Paris is full of English-speaking people and she wanted to make sure she would really practise her French.

- She will go to Paris in a few days, she hasn't been there yet.

-She enjoyed visiting the Memorial of Slavery a lot, but she hasn't seen the　 «　machines　» yet.

Travelling　

- She worked in San Francisco last summer. She loves California but she thinks that San Francisco is too expensive.

- She has already been to Switzerland

- She has only been to New York once.

  

School life

-She learnt Spanish in primary school but decided to learn French then.

- She is in a big college (university) with 8,000 students.

- The mascot of her university is a wild cat.

- She has a small scholarship, she took a test and she passed it.

- There were cliques in her high school

- Her favorite teacher was an English literature teacher

- She's a democrat and the first thing she would change is university fees because they are too expensive. They can be as expensive as tens of thousands dollars a year.

- She says that French is a little bit like Spanish but some words are difficult to say like «　feuille　» or «　écureuil　»

- She prefers College to High School because students are more open-minded and they interact more.

- She thinks that school in America and France are pretty similar.

 

- She doesn't belong to a sorority　( sorts of university clubs for girls, in which they socialize, have parties and build up a network for later).

  

 

  Her future plans

- She will stay in Nantes for three or four months.

- She wants to be a criminal defence lawyer .