out how to make my life in a country where I didn't completely understand the language.

My house mother taught me how to cook French food, and we would sit around the dinner table

and talk about stuff, everything was in French, she hardly spoke a word of English. So I learned

to adapt, I learned to integrate myself into a new community, and talk to people and meet

people, and understand a culture. The classes are also very rigorous, one of my professors

actually, when she found out I was very into Broadcast Journalism and had some experience

in that way, she helped me kind of get a press pass into the Counsel of Europe and I did

a couple of freelance stories, just on my own duck into a panel discussion or a little

something like that and just did it for fun. You have to branch out and get to know French

people and do French things. In Strasbourg, I learned how to have fun on a budget. You

can rent a bike for 5 Euro and ride your bike as far as you can into Germany on a Saturday

and take the train back. The awesome thing is that every first Sunday of the month, all

of the museums are free. So we would have our first Sunday of the month day and we would

all go out and see as many things as we could in Strasbourg. We just had fun. There are

a lot of young people in Strasbourg, it's a very young demographic, there are a lot

of Universities and that kind of thing. Now that I have this experience of living abroad

I feel like if I'm able and have the opportunity to go into International Reporting later on,

I'll have that base, and I think that I learned when you meet the most incredible people and

you try the most amazing food and you just kind of see things, understand the history

of the region in a new way because you're there!