Fernando Pardo was an undergraduate at Wake Forest University and pursued his master’s degree in French Studies at Middlebury College (Vermont) and the Sorbonne in Paris. His field of specialization during his studies at the Sorbonne was Albert Camus, and French Cinema. After a long career in marketing in Paris he has returned to Winston-Salem where he hopes to convey the love of languages and cinema to his students.He has started a French conversation group that includes students from Salem College, U.N.C.S.A., Wake Forest University, and members of the community.