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Day 1 (CONT'D) - First Impressions

I entered the building and what mostly caught my sight was the kindness of the staff at EMSB. In terms of linguistic observations, the staff are laid back, they do not focus on grammatical errors, or miss pronunciations when speaking, although they will correct themselves. They do not speak in formal manor frequently, but mostly in informal manor as the normal public.

Which I found very comforting since I will be working with some staff members.

Now in terms of cultural observations, whenever an individual was walking in the hallway passing by one another they always greeted eachother even though if they pass the exact same hallway twice. They seem very immerse in each others space, very caring as if they we're all related as family, which from my experience , people form the NDG district are usually very kind.

ESMB is an anglophone organization, therefore their main language is english, but I have come across some francophones in the hallway. I have not learned any new languages in this establishment as I am already perfectly bilingual in english and french.I have not learned new words, expressions or sentence structures but I am expecting to learn new vocabulary in the future internship days to come. I am anxious to see what formal vocabulary and expressions are used during a meeting and a press conference.

As it is the first day of my internship at ESMB, I have not stumbled across any important misundertandings exept for the two of the tasks I was given which are to update and gather followers for their Twitter, and to update their facebook. Those two tasks had thrown me of edge because I wasn't expecting such a task. As I had said previously, I have not come across any misunderstandings and therefore have not made any mistakes to learn from.




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Day 1

My goals for this internship are to immerse myself in a governmental perspective, meaning getting a base knowledge of what a press conference involving a provincial school board and it's members. Also improving my communication skills in a manor of speaking to high officials, for example when in a press conference it is required to speak formally, also I am required to translate french documents and speak french in certain circumstances in the future, so it shall help me improve my french skills.

The most important language learning strategies that might help me during my internship in this anglophone establishment are using mnemonic techniques meaning thinking of cognates or false-cognates, making associations with the words. Practicing, for when I have my press conference speech. Constant searches for meaning, using internet means to know the definition of a difficult word.

My first meeting was better than I expected. The minute I walked through the door I was greeted by the security at the front desk. Then when I met my supervisor and director of the establishment they seemed very intrigued with having a intern. They briefed me on what meetings,conferences I will be attending in the future, and that I will be translating english documents to the french language. Also as a first task, my supervisor sent me a link to the french website where I would search through each tab and look for spelling mistakes and notify them of what I have found

BeforeHand

My previous expectations before starting where pretty lineant, I expected my supervisor to be as you call

"uptight" and I was concerned about my dress code , if I didn't look professional enough and also I expected my internship to be in the Montreal district but as it turns out its located in NDG, therefore I know it will take time to arrive.

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Internship Location

My internship destination is the English Montreal School Board.

The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) is the largest English public school board in Quebec.

Established on July 1 th 1998, their network consists of  81 schools and centres.

The mission of ESMB :

Is to support its schools and centres in their efforts to educate students within a caring, safe and inclusive learning community. Providing all students with the opportunity to develop their talents and achieve their personal best.