It is first of all thanks to the meetings that Élise was able to integrate easily. For her, her luck was to meet French people quickly to take her bearings during the first days.
She was surprised by the warm welcome from the Americans. Some even offered to come and spend Thanksgiving with their family when she had just arrived.
And then his meeting with Flora, a French from the South, was decisive. As she says “everything would have been different without her”. She quickly created a small group of international friends with Germans, Portuguese and South Americans. They help and support each other like a “real little family”