Student Exchange Programs

Hey everyone! I’m gonna make this post as short as possible.

So I’m French and I live in France. I met that American guy on the internet when we were 14 (currently 20 years old), on aol chat. Random, i know! And we became really good friends and he changed my life in such a drastic way, I still can’t believe it and can’t imagine what my life would have been like without him. I started to focus more on learning English because talking with him was so refreshing and I just wanted to be able to talk with him more and we were both driven by such a fiery passion. I miss those days when we’d talk everyday for hours on end about everything, and we were so young, innocent, and romantic.

Anyway, a couple years later, at age 16, I became a foreign exchange student, and studied for a year at an American high school, because he got me so curious about his culture and everything that I wanted to live in the States. He visited me while I was there and it was fun but he had a girlfriend. (we resisted the temptation but it was hard…).

However, we had lots of ups and downs, knowing that we both have very strong tempers and that when he’s mean, i’m more mean and so on. sometimes we’d get mad at each other for months and stopped talking but eventually there was always something that pulled us back together.

After my year in the States, we stopped talking because we got into an umpteenth argument. In April 08, i wished him a happy birthday. We started talking and the old flame lit again as though we had never ever stopped talking We were about to graduate from high school so his dad paid for him to come see me for two weeks in France. We had an amazing time - the first week. He was still with his girlfriend and had become high school sweetheart.