A sad farewell to the "Frenchies"

By Barclay Kruse, NSC Chief Communications Officer

On November 7, the NSC organized a staff happy hour to bid a sad goodby to our two French interns, Adrien Bequart and Camille Saliot. Affectionately known around the office as "the Frenchies," Camille and Adrien have been working full time at the NSC since May. After their six month stint here, the interns will return to college at Group ESC Rouen, the Rouen School of Management, which is located in the Normandy city of Rouen. Each has one more semester remaining in their business degree program.

Camille, left, and Adrien show off their NSC goodby gift bags, that included a PUMA soccer ball and various not-so-serious souvenirs culled from NSC storerooms, desk drawers and dark corners.

During their six months here, the pair worked primarily on Schwan's USA CUP, both during the event and in the months after in our recruiting department. They also learned about American football by working on our NSC Football Classic, where they met the Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders. They co-hosted a very funny episode of Kick TV, the video journal of Schwan's USA CUP, where they searched the NSC campus for anyone (anyone!) who knew that July 14 was Bastille Day.

On July 14, Bastille Day, Camille and Adrien, shown here with Kick TV host Mike Woodley, quizzed Schwan's USA CUP players and fans about the French National Holiday.

They took Schwan's USA CUP marketing trips to Winnipeg and South Dakota, where they visited the Badlands, Mount Rushmore and the Mitchell Corn Palace.

In June, while participating in the annual Intern Cycling Day at the NSC Velodrome, Camille suffered a wipeout, which left him limping for a few days.

Camille gets up close and personal with the wood surface of the NSC Velodrome.

If you were one of the many NSC visitors and volunteers who met Camille and Adrien, and maybe even worked with them, we know you join us in wishing them the best. We're still hoping we can twist their arms to come back next summer to work Schwan's USA CUP.