Work experience in Lille, France.

Yesterday night i returned from the best trip EVER. I took on the challenge of doing work experience in the beautiful city of Lille.  My placement was at a salon (named Tweezer) where they did beauty related treatments, from waxing to massage. My week's tasks were mostly cleaning and following around the beauticians doing there daily job to learn as much French as i possibly could. NOT ONE person in the salon spoke English, so you can imagine how daunting that could be (a game of charades was what i felt like i did most of the time). From working there i can tell you being a beautician (one whom wax private parts ahem) is not a career i want any time soon but i have gained so much from this experience.

Confidence confidence confidence... It's what you need to be successful when learning another language. I could barely speak French to my best friend at the beginning of the week but by the end we couldn't stop. Ordering food became easier (even though they knew straight away that we were English, oh well). Everything has became easier due to the fact of being confined in a small place with no one but French people.

These are some of the pictures i took while being there, me and my best friend Emily had a lot of free time so, big city = fun.

Getting a little wind swept on the boat to Calais:

Roaming around the city on the first day:

Our first meal out of the hotel, look at those sexy Mojitos:

Had a little too much fun with the panorama shots:

Finally got to try these delicious drinks that i see everywhere! The bottle is to die for, how pretty:

I love this photo! The strip of a m a z i n g restaurants:

Did somebody say Pina Colada?:

We went to a club called 'Le Network' close by. It was crazy different to the clubs in England just by the way the French danced (dancing with partners and moving their whole body). There was no one being escorted out half paralysed, no one fighting in the middle of the dance floor and no one sat down! (apart from us *cough*). It's crazy to see people actually enjoying alcohol rather than the intention of getting 'off their face'. The French attitude to aspects of life is just something i admire:

And finally............ SEPHORA! This was my first EVER trip to a sephora and it was FRICKING AMAZIN'! There was make up forever and marc jacobs *faints*. France haul post coming soon, i bought a few goodies. P.S, the photo on the right is the cropped of the sephora sign because every time i walked past, i thought it was a pair of pants dangling, funny huh?:

This experience has given me so much motivation to continue my French and hopefully do well enough so i can go to university in Paris. Learning another language opens so many doors and i'm excited to be thrown back in to the French way of life if i succeed and go to Paris, I am going to work sooooooooooo hard! Thank you Halsbury work experience, it was amazing, i'm currently in a state of depression because i want to go back so badly...

Love, Kate

xox