Blog Post # 3: Diving in

Describe interactions you’ve had in English and what you learned from them
In my internship, I don't talk a lot with my supervisor but I do talk a lot with people around the hospital and that is probably my favorite part of my internship. I often wander around the hospital to place poster, magazines and information sheets. Also, I get lost most of the time since this hospital is huge! I always end up asking directions and where is x room or y place. I realized that I probably look weird to an anglophone person when I speak english. I tend to do a lot of gestures to explain simple things. As long as they understand me!
I did not learn any new expression, though. Like I said I don't talk a lot with my department since most of the time, I'm walking around the place to do some tasks. But hey who knows! I might learn a new expressions from an old lady.

Describe your observations of Anglophone culture
I don't want to generalize but in my department, people are not very punctual. They are supposed to start at 9 and some person arrive thirty minutes late, sometimes. I was kind of surprise by that since I always want to be on time. I had a hard time to ajust my schedule to theirs since that I was always 1 hour earlier than I was supposed to. I always try to kill time or else I end up doing over work! 
I don't think that people have a big scale of politeness. I know that they say sorry a lot, for pretty much nothing. Other than that, they call themselves by their first names all the time. I think it is because my department work together since a long time. In the morning, when you enter you can always see someone saying "good morning" to another one and they welcome everyone. Same when it comes to leave. Everyone says goodbye to everyone else.
I actually never saw them do jokes. Not that they are not funny but once again, I'm always on the first floor or the RC.
I'm having a hard time to dress like they do. When I asked my supervisor for the dress code, she told me "No joggings". I said ok and I always wear jeans. I think it's funny to see a girl wear a skirt or a dress in winter but the girls in my department still do it. My health pass before my style! Though, I'm still trying to look elegant since it is important to them.
When it comes to breaks, I never had one and that would be stupid anyway since I only work 2 hours and a half. That would be useless to have a break. I never saw my supervisor take one either.

Select 5 new words, expressions or structures
-Zionist: I was reading the newspaper. Someone asked me to read it to find if there was information about the JGH and I came across this word.
-Pavillion: I thought "Pavillon" was also pavillon is english.
-Raffle: I had to cut paper for their Christmas party.
-"Lick someone's boot": While placing stuff in the hospital, I heard an old lady say this.
-"break your back": I don't quite remember if this expression is right but I remember that someone said something similar to this because I was doing tasks since 8:30 while I'm supposed to start at 9.