Internship Goals

1. Specific language goals :

During my internship, I hope to accomplish one major language goal. Since I am already bilingual, and have been since I was born practically, I want to ameliorate my english and make it richer. If I want to work as a translater in the future I need my english to be very professional. I do make mistakes sometimes when I write or speak english, so I want to make this better and learn the right words and expressions.

2. Language learning strategies :

I think the strategies I will use the most is to communicate with other people and practicing to speak with them. As I said earlier, I already speak a high level of english but I accept the fact that I can always ameliorate. Communicating with these people that speak english will probably help me to learn new vocabulary, and if I remember these new vocabulary words and practice them, they will stay in my head. I know that being motivated is also a good way to remember things better, and I am really motivated to participate in this internship.

3. First meeting with the internship host :

My first meeting with my hosts went very well. Christi, our English in Action teacher, was there and it helped me feel more comfortable and relaxed. They asked me questions about my life, the people around me, what I like to do and my interests, which concluded in an excellent internship oppurtunity for me. The hosts are really open and nice persons, and I felt that they really liked the opportunity to have young people work for them and help them. I could feel their interest and they were happy because I was motivated and I looked alive talking to them, the internship really interested me and they found me the perfect spot to work with them.

4. Pre-internship impressions, concerns and expectations :

 I haven't started to get involved very much in my internship. For now, I am taking care of their French twitter but the real internship is starting next week, when I will go with my hosts to a hockey game at McGill University and meet players or influent people and tweet live from there. Some other events like this will happen during the internship. I expect it to be fun and very knowledgeable, as it joins what I wish to do in my future career.

Ariane