Article June 13, 2016 Issue

A new comfort zone

Chandler Brown

Who wouldn’t want to move to France? Most people would think, “Wow! Cool! What a great opportunity!”

But what most people didn’t know was that I was moving to France … but I was going alone. And, frankly, I was a little scared. This was seriously outside of my comfort zone.

My parents had connected with a French family and arranged for me to live with them as a sort of “exchange” for a year. At first I thought it would be awesome to go learn the language and be in another country. But as the time for me to leave got closer, I started having doubts. I didn’t want to leave my friends and family. Plus, I would be missing my freshman year in high school in the US. Eventually, though, I realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I couldn’t pass it up.

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