In my writing class, every week we were assigned two literary poems or pieces of writing. For this specific week, I chose to include a Chinese portrait. This was based on one of the examples we had discussed in class, and the assignment would later be graded to assess the progress I had made. One of the most difficult parts of this writing class was using the vocabulary we had already learned and combining it with new vocabulary to meet the requirements for each assignment. Since it’s not always intuitive to know the names of every type of flower in French, it required me to expand my vocabulary, sentence structure, and pronunciation. This writing course was one of many that challenged me while abroad. It had a wide range of objectives and goals and allowed me to progress in French in ways I hadn’t imagined.