I talked with Benjamin last week. It was hard to discuss because the network was bad. So we began with the video and we finished in writing.

We talked about his place of life and travels. His parents live in St Marcus. He has never left California. The farthest he went was Los Angeles, 2 hours drive from St Marcus. He really wants to visit Britain, Paris and New York.

His father is Vietnamese and his mother is Chinese. He can listen and understand Chinese and Vietnamese but don’t know how to speak a lot these languages.

Then, we talked about the 2^nd generation Americans. He is a 2^nd generation American. In fact, his parents arrived to the United States when they were children. He told me that a lot of international students come to the United States to study. May be, it’s because of the American Dream.

I forgot to post our talk before the last one, so I put it here.

We talked about our studies. He is at UCI which is very big with a lot of students. He studies journalism. But he used to be a computer science engineer. He didn’t reach to do this and a professor told him that he would be good as a journalist. Now he really loves it.

The campus is a giant circle with a park at the centre. He lives near the campus, in a corent.

He doesn’t have a work. We wants to have  one, but for the moment he doesn’t have the time. He need money. Indeed, he pay 30 thousand of $ for a year. I was very surprised of the price of the studies in the United States. Government gives them loans they have to pay later.

I also learnt that he had a A in French. I was really happy for him!

The UCI at Irvine

The ENSCBP at Bordeaux