huf/s 39 c’est la vie prayed for me and commiserated and laughed with, or at, me.” To maintain his manliness through the semester, Cannaday did not shave his face the entire time he was overseas. “He didn’t shave his beard the whole time, which perhaps he should’ve,” Kirk said. “He also named it. I think this was his way of being manly throughout the trip.” Cannaday looked forward to the trip the group made to visit the Harding University Florence students so that he could be with other guys. “The days coming up to [visiting the HUF group] were filled with eager anticipation of seeing and talking with men again,” Cannaday said. “I was not let down when we arrived in Florence.” The last night the group was in Paris, the FIAP, an international student center, hosted a dinner for the group. “On the very last night, John got all the girls a rose and gave them to us,” Evins said. Accompanying the rose, Cannady had some sweet words for the girls. “When he gave us the roses, he said, ‘They say every rose has its thorn. Well now every thorn has a rose,’ ” junior Sally Tucker said. Being the only male on this semester abroad was also a learning experience for Cannaday. He got a better understanding of what it meant to be a man. “It was like looking at the negative of a picture,” Cannaday said. “By looking at the background, you can get a decent picture of what is in the foreground.” While Cannaday did not learn the secret to women, he did learn more about himself than he expected. “If you really want to know yourself well,” Cannady said, “spend a semester with 13 people who are nothing like you.” Christie Cronk and Rachel Klemmer
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