So today, I went for my first day of internship at the Jewish General Hospital. The day wasn't planned like it was supposed to. Look like my host was too busy to show me the hospital. Oh well, next time, I guess!
It looked like it was a busy day in general in the communication department. There was lots of meetings.

• What struck you on the first day?

What struck me the most was probably the kindness and "welcoming-ness" of everyone. As soon as I entered, when people saw me they immediatly introduce themselves to me and welcome me. That was nice of them. 
When it comes to the linguistic observation, well I'm not sure if this could be considered linguistic but they say "sorry" a lot. I knew it was present but not that much ! People are so well mannered.

• What new language did you learn? Begin your language lexicon (2-5 new words, expressions, structures)

Sad thing about today is that I didn't get to talk a lot. Probably what frustrated me the most. I wanted to talk but I got the impression that my host was too occupied with other stuff. Well, I did the inventory of some gift they plan to give for their holiday party. Why I'm telling this? Well I learn a new word haha. I now know what the word "lanyard" is. Trust me, after five hundred forty five of them, that word is stuck in your head the rest of the day. Worst than a song haha.
Doing inventory is the only thing I've done today. That is why I'm a bit disappointed. 
But oh well! Next week, I'm sure it's going to be better.

• Did you have any misunderstandings? What can you learn from your mistakes?

I didn't have the chance to talk much but yes, there was one. I arrived early (way too much) and then there is Mister... I forgot his name (I'll ask him again!) But yeah, he said something so fast that I couldn't understand and I was feeling bad to make him repeat (Yes, I know, I should make him repeat again! Promise I'll do next time) So I just nodded my head and said yes. That's when he started to speak french haha. I'm proud of myself though, I kept talking english!

My goal for this internship

Since I'm going to be at the Jewish General Hospital, I'm going to set goals that mostly have a link to jewish culture and everything that could be considered related to this.


My goals for this internship are:

• I want to learn more about the jewish culture.
• I want to be able to use idioms currently.
• Make sure this internship will be a positive experience.
• Do my tasks efficiently. (with less possible errors haha, well no one is perfect.)
• I want to speak with a decent accent in english.
• I want to correctly learn how to pronounce the "th" sound. I guess that by hearing other people use it, I'll eventually learn how to do so.

When it comes to the language strategies I'll be using is mainly going to be guesses. To be honest, i've been in a hospital three or four time in my life so I guess there is going to be vocabulary that I will encounter and that I probably won't know and plus, I'm shy to ask questions (haha). I'll need to put that aside.
Also, lucky me, I have lot of classes where I speak english so I'm going to use the "pratice strategies". It's always easier when you have people who speak english around you.

I've meet my host yesterday. Their names are Amanda , who will supervise me and there's also Marissa who work in the same department. The only incovenient is that I arrived way to early. About forty minutes haha.
Oh well, they were still pretty welcoming and I explained them the contract and the assurance. I haven't got the time to explain them this blog so I guess that will go to next time.

My pre-internship impressions, concerns and/or expectations:
Well actually, they explained me what I would do and from what I heard, I won't talk a lot. So I don't think I'll be able to ameliorate my english. I'll talk to that about them or else that's not really a stage. Other than that, the tasks seems really interesting. Mainly office work but that seems fun.
I'm supposed to help them with some translation and I'm going to pass some magazines in the hospital. They write a "kind of journal." Didn't really understand that part but I can't wait to start. Next week, they will show me the hospital and then I'll start what I am supposed to do (Yeah!).

About me

Hello there,
the main purpose of this blog is to keep a journal of the activites, mistake and problem I may encounter during my internship. If I am a stranger to you, well there's big possibilities that you don't understand what I'm talking about so to make short, I'm a Trilinguism and culture's student at Cegep Andre-Laurendeau.
Welcome on my blog.

My first post: Internship body language

This video is about advices that may help you within a work/internship interview. I think that the most important advice they give you is definitely to stay confident and comfortable with the situation. When you look stress, the employee see it and that change a big thing about it. If you walk there with confidence, the employee

For my first internship, this is going to be an helpful video since I’ve never really done a real interview. I’m easily stress by this. Well let’s blame it on shyness! Haha

What I’ll try to do to make this interview a nice experience:

• I’ll prepare some answer to the question, in my head.
• I’ll try to act comfortable to avoid awkward situation.
• Walk in with confidence.