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Hi again!

Like I said before I will keep in touch with my experience trough my internship and tell you my anecdotes and misadventures during the internship. Today I will tell you about my first impression.

Well the first day I went to the internship I won’t lie I was more than nervous! But once again I worry too much I know but I think that by saying that I can make people who like me get really nervous about new environments and unfamiliar things feel better because you’re not alone.  Well on my first day the first thing I noticed was the ambiance because if the new environment you are in is hostile I don’t think it is easy to be at ease. In my case it was really a nice ambiance so it helped a lot during my first day.

The first day I went to the internship I must admit I did not really prepare myself well enough so for my second day I tried to set me some rules for better preparation:

1.        Don’t be shy it is normarl to ask question when you are new
2. When not comfortable with something ask for help
3. Try your best
4. GOLDEN RULE  SPEAK ENGLISH no matter what (or try your best to)

Now you may wonder why my last rule is speak English, I mean of course I will speak English, but something not that tempts me, but make me break the rule and is quite funny when I notice is as soon as people in general (mostly English speaker but French also) notice that English is not your mother thong, have accent or have some difficulty to say something they will not correct me but will speak French to me instead of correcting me. Also strangely when you say English is not my mother thong automatically we will speak to you in French. When I first noticed that I tried to come with a solution and the first one that came to my mind was to go back to speaking English subtly. But I still need to find a better solution (and I will) for now if I find anything new I’ll tell you!  Thank you  for reading!

News!

Hello everyone!

I have a lot to tell you about the internship but first I would like to explain  a little bit more about  the goals I want to reach  for the English in action class!

My first goal and most important one will be to have a wider vocabulary because when I speak I sometime lack of words to express myself and to do so I will listen a lot during my internship when I’m having a conversation with English speakers.

My second goal is to be less shy when I speak English if I was less scared to make mistake I think I will improve my English speaking skills. I need to be more confident and have less inhibition. Everyone makes mistake when learning, it’s normal.

Third goal is more like a challenge because I do it lot. I will TRY my best not to switch from English to French when I don’t know how to say or what the word is actually in English, that’s why my first goal is to widen my vocabulary. I will put a lot of effort by looking for words that mean the same (synonyms), ask how to say it and even explain what I’m trying to say in English.

I think those are my main goals, for now, but maybe I will have new ones and more challenges along the way because I think we never learn to much I will tell you more about it!

Finally I have more news about my internship which is in Ten thousand villages a shop that sells fair trade products from other countries. Then I had to call my host for the internship to make an appointment. It made me really nervous but it went really well! Why? Because I prepared myself first, I wrote everything I needed to say and even practiced before calling it really helped me! I met with my host and talked about my schedule and duties during my internship. I’m really glad I prepared well and could finally meet my host!