Quentin:
AKA: Frenchy
Major: Marketing
Origins: France
Quentin is awesome. For one, he is a social butterfly and got to know basically everyone in our complex in the first week (doesn’t need to get drunk to go out and have fun with just about anyone or do spontaneous, somewhat crazy things like wear a dress to orientation to win a bet-he’s a very confident male). He fits the bill for the stereotype I have of French people (they love butter and lots of it) and he’s an amazing cook (he made us these homemade calzones/raviolis and a pumpkin dish). Oh, and he knows English better than David or I do (even though it’s obviously his second language). He also loves anime, along with Dave, and a number of other people in our flat complex. And like everyone in our flat. He’s very good in volleyball and joined a team here, already making it up to Christchurch for a few games the other weekend.
You have to appreciate his independence: he’s here to explore New Zealand and experience it for himself. He avoids hanging out with other French people for the most part so he can meet more new people, international and Kiwis. It’s hard for us Americans to avoid other US exchange students, there are just so many of us.
He’s really smart when it comes to marketing. He gave me a heads up warning me that the US dollar is taking a plunge so the exchange rate for us with the New Zealand dollar is going to get worse (and he managed to explain it to me in English terms I can understand-which is very impressive).
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