picture book to memorise vocabularies Hello, This morning, I was speaking with a friend on skype and he suggested me to have a picture book "French English" This kind of book describe a situation, a place or a subject with pictures and vocabularies. It's a very good idea. For example, if I have to travel by train, I can read the vocabularies about a station, or a train and try to think about this vocabulary during my travel. In Septembre, I will begin a 6 months training with a week in english about activities of trade ports. Instead of reading a book in english about this subject, (it will take time for me) may be I can read the picture about a trading port. Before sleeping, sometimes I want to read something, but it's not obvious when your attention is decreasing to do something who needs concentration. So have a look on a picture book before sleeping is easier than reading a novel. And perhaps, it's better to have a refreshing sleep. Jean-Yves

To be able to present myself I've been trying to improve my english for a long time. I started learning at school when I was 13 years old. But I wasn't a good student. I prefered maths and physics. And I was too shy to try to speak behind other people. With the time, today, I'm less reticent and it's now pleasant to speak. In March, I had a interview for a job, and the job seeker asked me to speak english. It was difficult, because I wasn't fluently and I lost to much time searching the right sentence with the good words. Obviously, I didn't have the job. But I call the job seeker, and I told him that I was having english course and I would call him in a few times to have an interview in english with him. I hope in Septembre to be able to present myself and to talk about skills and job experiences. And of course, music, movies, nature, and anything else.

An evening on a landing craft Tonight, I've got a party on a landing craft. I've got friends who live there, on the river "La Seine" just before Paris. Originally, a landing craft is used to convey raw materials like sand, gravel for construction, and also containers. It's possible to transform it in a flat, a big flat, because the living aera is between 150 and 200 square meters. I like to go visiting my friends, because in summer, we eat outside. We watch the sunset, the movement of water, birds. It's very relaxing.

skills Good morning, I plane to change manufacturing sector. In September, I'll go back to school for a degree in industrial management and logistics in Paris. Before that, I'm doing a skill assessment whit an outplacement firm. It's a little bit fastidious to think about 25 years career, but it's very usefull to have a self knowledge. I did the first part : my different jobs and the skill I have done, the sucess and difficulties, what I liked to do, and what I dislike. The next step is to think about quality (who I am...), ability (what is natural for me : leadership, autority...) and knowledge (tools like mineral expertise, lean management, supply chain...). And of course, a essential knowledge : ability to speak ENGLISH fluently. So do I !!

juryman for enginer This afternoon, I'm going back to the school where I passed my enginer degree in 2013. I am juryman for the promotion 2015. We are three in the jury to evaluate the 2 years long working of a student on an industrial project. A first part is about the report and a second is about 20 minutes speaking about a subject (for example : lean management, change management...).

It's my birthday It's today, 45 years old. Is it my middle life? maybe. In Septembre, I'll go back at school for a degree in industrial management and logistic at Paris. The opportunity to a return on the job market and to change manufacturing sector. Before, I worked in a plaster plant. We made plater block, spraying plaster, and coating plaster. For several reasons (new workers on the market, decrease of the building market...), there are to many people in France for this activity. So my company fired 200 people on 1400. Happy birthday and I wish myself to find a new job thanks my degree and motivation. Best wishes