Hello again from Caitlin and Nancy!
Now that we’re really into the swing of our internship the days are passing so quickly- we can hardly believe that today marks the half way point of Caitlin’s placement with LLAS! As we’ve only six weeks to go until the deadline to have all of the ICS Festival signed and sealed (it won’t be delivered until February!), this week we presented our final festival plans to the rest of the LLAS team and interns. It’s great to know that despite our supervisor, Ali, being away for a while, we’ve still got lots of support from the rest of the staff and interns, although we know that Ali is only an email and an iPad away. We’ve also moved up to the LLAS offices this week and so we’re already collaborating with one of the Routes Into Languages interns, Yolanda, who has drawn up some fantastic designs for our festival logo.
Once again this week we spent our Monday evening in the company of Friends International and enjoyed an excellent talk on Southampton in World Affairs. We also crossed paths with a few of the students on the EAS course, currently studying here in Southampton away from their homes in Kazakhstan, and chatted about plans to get some conversation clubs established so as to permit the students to practice their English. Hopefully we can get something up and running before the end of the summer!
We gained even more insight into internationalisation activities running in Southampton through sharing coffee and biscuits with the International Women’s Club this Wednesday. We’d like to thank the ladies for being so welcoming to us, listening about our work placements and sharing their own stories with us. We’ll certainly be back once the Autumn programme starts next month!
See you back here next Friday for another Intern Update!
