{"id":15844,"date":"2026-05-05T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=15844"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:43:50","slug":"french-foreign-exchange-student-nathan-millot-relishes-time-at-umes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/french-foreign-exchange-student-nathan-millot-relishes-time-at-umes\/","title":{"rendered":"French foreign exchange student Nathan Millot relishes time at UMES"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nathan Millot, one of four University of Lorraine exchange students visiting the University of Maryland Eastern Shore this semester, has relished his time in the United States.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

When the opportunity to come to the United States as a foreign exchange student arose, Nathan Millot<\/strong> had his share of hesitations and concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millot, a University of Lorraine (UL) student spending the spring semester at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore<\/a>, would be setting foot in the country for the first time, leading to some anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was a bit stressed and scared hearing about some of the racism in America,\u201d Millot, a sophomore business major, said. \u201cDepending on where you could be, you might find people who are very racist or rude, from some of the situations we\u2019ve heard about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, those early perceptions did not match the reality Millot and his fellow UL classmates have encountered during their experience at UMES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the first moments on campus, participating in a pizza party during a Jan. 30 international student orientation session, to his first trips to Washington, D.C., and New York City, Millot is taking in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNew York and Washington, D.C. are very similar in size to a place like Paris, but there are a lot of large buildings, something that\u2019s not that common in France,\u201d he said. \u201cAs for UMES, it feels like a little city with a big family atmosphere. Everyone knows each other and everyone has been kind and welcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While being in a new country for the first time can leave concerns about the language barrier, that wasn\u2019t much of a challenge for Millot and the French delegation. The students can converse in English while also finding other fellow French speakers on campus, such as students from Cameroon and Senegal, and UMES women\u2019s basketball player Enola Papin<\/strong>, who is also French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTheir French is very similar to ours, so we can understand each other, and sometimes, we speak a little English and a little French,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve met some students who speak Creole, but it\u2019s tough to understand. It\u2019s like a remix of French, where I can understand about one or two words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millot said he wants to use his final months on campus to continue to broaden his American experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to improve my English, because it\u2019s really important to be fluent in as many languages as possible, especially for the professional world,\u201d he said. \u201cI also hope to see a lot more of America because there are so many cities and places I\u2019d love to visit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the opportunity to come to the United States as a foreign exchange student arose, Nathan Millot had his share of hesitations and concerns. Millot, a University of Lorraine (UL) student spending the spring semester at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, would be setting foot in the country for the first time, leading to…Read more French foreign exchange student Nathan Millot relishes time at UMES<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1559,"featured_media":15847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-15844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15844"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=15844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}