Last Day

My last day at my internship went very well. I got to say that I was a little sad to leave my internship. I like the people that were there and the customers always had interesting story to tell. I think that I attended my goal because I noticed that my accent changed even if it’s not perfect I know that I’m better in English. Moreover, during my internship I made the effort and the strategies that I wanted to use the most. I used often the strategies that I chose at the beginning of my internship (to look for patterns in a language). Therefore, in my internship, I really concentrated myself to communicate more than to worry about the grammar. I tried my best to think in the language. It will be good for me in the future because this is a good strategy to communicate easily with people.

In my internship, it was easy to interact with the people that worked there because they knew that I try to speak English so they helped me with that. With the customer it went well, but sometimes they noticed I’m not an English speaker and they began to talk to me in French. My level in English has improved very well even if I didn’t speak as much I wanted to.

I think my internship really changed me because I was very shy to interact with people who don’t speak the same language as me. Now, I’m more confident to speak in English and the store was an amazing store where you can learn new things because there is a lot of different culture that came in the store and what the store sells are made by these cultures. I have to say also that I liked how English people speak. It’s really fluid the way they talk and they speak loud and I never heard an English person mumble. Moreover they have more energy than the French people and they are really talkative.

If I had to do my internship differently, I don’t think I will change anything about my experience, but maybe if there were more customers in the store and more people of my age to speak with in English it would helped me more. Seriously, I really liked the experience. For my host, in my last day I thanked her for her help but it wasn’t the manager or the assistant manager because both weren’t there when I was there. It was Shilla and she liked the gift. I even told her that after my break, if I have the time I can come to do some hours to help.

Finally, I recommend this place for another student because the people that worked there were gentle and cheerful. The place makes the people more open-minded to the other culture and to the poverty in the world. There is just one negative thing, it’s not all the customers that speak in English, but the people that worked there always speak in English at least.