Tamara Bunge
Class: 2006
Graduated with a French major in 2006
Tamara says, "Nine and a half years post graduation I am currently a massage therapist full time. I have lived in Los Angeles for the past five years,but am ready to move on to the next city/state/country that excites me. After college I lived in different places like San Francisco, Montana, and Paris before ending up here in LA. While I do not have a career centered around my French language skills, I still find uses for it. I worked in retail and hotels for several years and was often called upon to communicate with francophone customers. I currently maintain my French via a Meetup Group here in LA where we meet and speak only in French. French is still the most important thing to me, and anyone who knows me knows I am still obsessed with France, in fact my apartment is all pictures of France and the Eiffel tower etc, and that I hope to live there permanently one day. Down here in LA, I have a group of four other American girls who I met during the study abroad in Paris back in 2004. We have all remained in contact since and have grown very close due to our mutual experience abroad. We call ourselves the Paris girls and we get together often to cook and eat French food."