Project Time!!

Hello everyone! Sun is shinning here, we enjoy it, I hope you can do the same!!! Today we are going to be a bit serious (sorry :( ) This week was, here, the project presentation week. That means we all presented our project. Actually, here every student has to manage at least one project per semester. During this semester, we had to choose one "elective element". Each group was supposed to create his own project, about whatever he wanted to study about. The only obligation : it had to be about energy production and consumption. This awesome to choose our own subjects, but this also so difficult : so much possibilities!!!! Furthermore, we did not know anyone in the class at the beginning, and we were not used to speak that much English either! So to summarize: huge challenge at the beginning. We were in different groups : Martin worked with two Polish guys and Keetleen, a student from ESAIP as well : they were wondering if producing energy using windmills was really clean. Claire and I worked about the ways to improve the efficiency of transportation technologies, with two Hungarian guys. The experience was really awesome, and useful. Indeed, the whole project was of course in English, then we had to : speak English with our project mates and write in the good way in the report. We were done with the reports at the end of the last week, and then we presented our work to our main teachers on Thursday and Friday. We had to write about 15 pages in the reports, and the presentation had to last 20min. The point is : we had to speak during precisely 20 min. Not 21, not 19 (ok, it is a bit overrated, but they really want us to focus on the time we spend speaking). We were a bit nervous before presenting, because for the French students, it was the first time we had to do a technical presentation in a foreign language. But by the end it went well, and we all passed the exam. We now have one more project, about helping the population living in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya to produce energy in a renewable way. This one is also interesting. Well, enough about it, this too much serious for a Saturday night!!!! Just to conclude, these projects are good ways to help us with spoken and written English. It was definitely a good experience; I learnt a lot of things, and actually I'm even hopeful about the future of transportation :) Spend a nice weekend, take care yourselves, seize the day :) A.