My name is Carole Morin, and I am presently in International Studies, but my goal is to enter the BEALS in fall 2007. I am working really hard for it, and hopefully it will pay off.
Professor Saint-Yves suggested that I write more about me, so here it is. I was suggested to provide you with what I accomplished and my goals and what I like in order to help you all know me more. Therefore, my main interests are languages, mainly English and Spanish. I am presently looking forward to do a program which is to teach English to children in Spain, because the tour guide job I was looking forward to is not going to happen. I got rejected. Therefore, I needed to find something else, and this is what I came up with!
Now, here are my goals in life. I want to become an English teacher/ Spanish teacher, maybe at college level, but for the moment, I will concentrate on high school level, because even if I want to teach languages, maybe, this is not for me. I can’t be certain because I have never taught it. My dream goal is to travel all around the world, I want to see places, I want to do things that I know I will not do if I stay in Quebec all my life.
-This is a view of Jasper
The farthest I went in my life is in Alberta, in a little town called Jasper. Therefore, my next step is to go in Europe, which is what I am about to do. I did the program called Summer Nannies Center, which consisted in babysitting during one summer English children in Ontario. I liked it for the English but the difference between English families and French families is really different; especially, when the family you come from is in the average social class, and you get into a rich family that has no money problems. It was really hard for me to live surrounded with money and money talk, when where I come from, relationships between every member of the family is important. Maybe it is only the family I was in that was like that, but unfortunately, since I was around many families, because my family had friends that were as rich as they were if not more, I can say that having nannies to take care of your kids, even if they were stay home mothers, was more than frequent. What I remember from my experience is that I do not want to be like them, if I have children, I will take care of them myself; I will not have a stranger to raise my own children.
The jobs I had in my life are jobs that needed knowledge of the English language. I worked on a boat worth 11 million dollars during the summer between high school and college, and even if it was not a requirement to speak English, I became really useful to the carpenters I was assisting when it came to speak with other teams of workers on the boat, because they were all English speakers, and the carpenters were not. Therefore, I became the translator for every work team on that boat, and I became friends with the crew that was going to work on the boat. I almost left with them, because they did not have a French speaker that could speak English as well, but because I was not 18, they did not want to be responsible for me in other countries. Then, the following summer I left for Alberta and I had a job as a front desk agent. There I had to speak English all day long, and I came pretty useful when French tourists came in. At first, it was hard to answer the phone, because sometimes I had problems with the accents, but I finally got it. As for last summer, I worked at a place where tourists stopped by to ask information about the activities they could do in Mauricie, and there again, I had to speak English a lot.
My interests in life are multiple. I am a person that is passionate about everything that comes into my life for any reason. Therefore, that is why, as soon as I saw the child labour topic; I wanted to do a research about it. This is because I am sensitive to people’s rights and to what happens in other country that can be bad or good. What I love the most is to learn about new cultures that I had no knowledge about or situations in the world.
I hope this helped you to know me a little better,
The jobs I had in my life are jobs that needed knowledge of the English language. I worked on a boat worth 11 million dollars during the summer between high school and college, and even if it was not a requirement to speak English, I became really useful to the carpenters I was assisting when it came to speak with other teams of workers on the boat, because they were all English speakers, and the carpenters were not. Therefore, I became the translator for every work team on that boat, and I became friends with the crew that was going to work on the boat. I almost left with them, because they did not have a French speaker that could speak English as well, but because I was not 18, they did not want to be responsible for me in other countries. Then, the following summer I left for Alberta and I had a job as a front desk agent. There I had to speak English all day long, and I came pretty useful when French tourists came in. At first, it was hard to answer the phone, because sometimes I had problems with the accents, but I finally got it. As for last summer, I worked at a place where tourists stopped by to ask information about the activities they could do in Mauricie, and there again, I had to speak English a lot.My interests in life are multiple. I am a person that is passionate about everything that comes into my life for any reason. Therefore, that is why, as soon as I saw the child labour topic; I wanted to do a research about it. This is because I am sensitive to people’s rights and to what happens in other country that can be bad or good. What I love the most is to learn about new cultures that I had no knowledge about or situations in the world.
I hope this helped you to know me a little better,
Carole
Amélie and I
2 comments:
I am sure you have worked a lot on your blog. The photos are beautiful. By the way, how do you put photos on a blog? I am in Spanish studies and I will also transfer to the BEALS next year. I would like to teach Spanish as well.
Hello Carole,
I find your topic really interesting, especially as I am also working at a job where I gotta speak English most of the time
So I'm looking forward to reading you
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