Our visit with Dr. Jill Biden by Candice
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VISIT TO THE AMERICAN EMBASSY |
By Candice Conton
To continue with the program of our project with Boston, we had the immense pleasure and honor to go to the American Embassy in Paris to meet with a very special hostess: Mrs. Jill Biden!
Are you familiar with her name? Are you sure?
Well: do you know Joe Biden? Have you heard of Barrack Obama? Yes? Well done! Joe Biden is Barrack Obama’s Vice –President, and Mrs. Jill Biden is his wife!!
Can you imagine us at the American embassy to meet with the Second Lady of the United States? Wow! We couldn’t believe our luck!
It was a real pleasure to go meet her because she is a very simple and pleasant woman who is very attentive to her environment.
We all fell under her charm and were very impressed.
Indeed, Doctor Biden is herself a creative writing teacher in a community college, and she hasn’t stopped teaching even though her husband is the Vice-President of the United States!
She is the first Second Lady to have continued working while her husband was in office. She supports many exchanges between American and French students, and that is why she invited us to support us and wish us the best of luck in our initiative.
First, we arrived at the American Embassy and we were warmly welcomed by Fabienne from the US embassy. Then, we had a short tour of the beautiful building, called the George C. Marshall center.
Then, we went to the salon where the meeting was going to take place.
First, Charles, a student from our class, had the amazing honour to give a speech to present our class and our Boston project. He then introduced Doctor Biden who was very impressed with his English.
She told us how happy she was to see French and American students meet each other to develop French American friendship.