"I knew that if I went to a larger city it would be easier to speak English."
Megan Hau, une étudiante australienne qui est venue vivre en France pour un an, nous parle de son expérience à la Faculté de Lettres et Langues à l’Université de Poitiers tant qu’étudiante étrangère.
Quand est-ce que tu es venue en France ?
HAU : January 2008
Pourquoi est-ce que tu as choisi Poitiers ?
HAU : As a part of my international studies program I could choose from the following cities : Strasbourg, Toulon, every Parisian suburb, Rennes, Reims, Bordeaux, and Lyon. I wanted to give this year the most effort I could in terms of exposure to French culture, way of life, and language. I knew that if i went to a larger city it would be easier to speak English. So I wanted to go to the smallest, prettiest town where I wouldn’t know anyone. I knew people who were going to Strasbourg, so I didn’t want to go there, and so basically I ended up deciding between Rennes and Poitiers. There were seven people from my school going to Rennes, so I ended up choosing Poitiers.
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I’m Catholic. I’ve gone to Catholic school all my life—from grade school to high school. My university back at home prides itself on being the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the nation. I may not go to church every weekend, but the golden rule is my mission statement, and Jesus is my homeboy.
Yet when I heard of Brazilian archbishop Cardoso Sobrinho’s decision to excommunicate the Brazilian mother who recently sought an abortion for her 9 year old daughter who had been raped, I was shocked and appalled. The young girl—along with her 14-year-old sister—had been sexually assaulted by her stepfather on multiple occasions. However, although it was her stepfather who was responsible for these heinous crimes, he was not the one who officially denied participation in Church sacraments and services. The Church chose to excommunicate the child’s family and the doctors who performed the abortion. The reason given for this decision?
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