Entry #5


Time of year's end celebrations has arrived !
And at the internship too !
Decorations in the office are not religious. They are made with recycled objects (bottles, cork stoppers, buttons, milk cartons...).
Éco-quartier is against the overconsumption of celebrations. It is true that lot of things purchased are discarded few days later.... A mess !
Nothing was bought, everything was made by hand with reused materials !

Sometimes I heard music from radio but I don't know which one. They were French and English popular songs. About newspapers, the only ones I have seen at the office, were in chinese and were used for the composting !


Rewards and challenges

The most difficult aspect is the comprehension of the speech when it is two english speakers that are speaking ! As often as possible I try to follow the conversation but I have lot of difficulties to understand because of new words, colloquial language or expressions and speed of the speech !
Through my internship and my languages courses that happen in English, I get used to this language ! I have noticed that my brain is more fast to switch between French-mode to English-mode. People around me are just francophones and I do not have any contact with english. Before my internship my brain started to function in English around 20 minutes an now, it starts to function around 5-10 minutes. It is a big difference for me !

Vocabulary

Flakes
I have never noticed that it is the same word for " corn flakes" so "flocons d'avoine". Maybe it is because in France we use directly "corn flakes" or "céréales" to talk about "flocons d'avoine".

Tale
Like in "Fairy Tale" it is "un conte". This is not a kind of word that I am used to hear without "fairy" so I did not make connection !