An intern sends an Email and does many more

In a day talking with L'Accompagnateur, he made me notice something deeply true and spicy, -as usual. He was in charge of recruitment and building the youngest and the finest teams for his assignment. He spent days reading resumees. It was the time when young people joined job market and these were the people who had lived the very first step of the Internet and the Email service*. It was really fun and they couldn't imagine it would interfere with their distant professional life. That's why they were available with  an email address they had created when they were roughly childs. They kept the address, so L'Accompagnateur was in view of poupoune87@hotmail.com, foufoulekillermaster@caramail.com, etc.... Our wanna-be Managers have learnt meanwhile and they don't make this mistake any more. However, a young is still a young and they could commit some unwelcome mistakes. Nowadays, you might check some convenient information in a public Facebook page. It could happen I have a look to know  who I will meet. Some let them know by their Linkedin pages. That could be impressive and more formal than Facebook. I would like to reassure the Youth. Even if they make bunch of spelling mistakes and are regardless about their Google's identity, I hear more and more that interns are still better and better, by far. Some friends are really impressed by their skills.

*I read that AOL wanted to make an sent email must be paid for (OMG)

Napoleon wrote

When I was woken by the clockradio, the voice was telling that Napoleon wrote every morning texts in English in order to improve his English writing skills. It was so similar to what I live that I was thinking I dreamt. On every anecdote in relation to Napoleon, each French can find something he could make feel close to him. In case it was not a dream.

Law Competiton explained at the youngest age

I mentioned few weeks ago my new interest for children program. A morning I watched with my son a Noddy's sequence which had a subtle hidden message that could interest my wife and all the lawyer of the world. Indeed, in this new and astonishing story, the Bad  organised a free taxi service in order to prevent Noddy from practising his activities and when he would have to stop, they can put the price up. A typical case in competition law. Proof.

A friend of us has a very successful blog and talks about our discovery. He adds also that his blog is children-friendly, because Competiton Law is also chilling for kids. My son is an example, as a photography shows it. His name is mentionned as well and it is his first Google's track in his life. What a destiny! But the show must go on. Indeed in his twitter's account, the CNCompetencia advertises the blog page.

E. is the young and innocent face of the Law competition.  Should we be proud of that?

I write some English sentences : To begin with

Since several weeks yet, I have had the idea to write here in English. By the fact, I live in Brussels and meet consequently lots of English people or expatriates, it would be a good thing if I expand (or try to expand) my blog audience. My english is far from perfect, but I dare to follow the reverse path of Rossbeef. Besides, it will be fun to gauge the improvement.

For newcomers, I should explain you first why our level in English is a kind of "Sorry, my angliche is terrible- on-peut-parler-français?". I barely concede to a friend how many years I spent in English class. Decades. In comparaison to Swedish, Portuguese or German people, I feel ashamed, only Spanish and American people give me some relief. So, why have the French people got some trouble in la langue de Shakespeare?  Teaching methods, groups of thirty sleeping students who never say one word out loud and learn torrents of useless words. Most of our English teachers are French, they're not surprised by our accent and understand everything we believe to say : Ello, I ave biutifoul ouz. I was often embarrased by the fact that nobody understood me, even in a simple sentence. I was thinking that English is French with other words. Besides, I had few consideration for the language itself. German seemed to be serious and educated and English like a worldwide dialect. I could not imagine that we could read the Bible in English, I could not imagine John saying to Matthew : "where is Luke?" like in a soap-opera episod. We believe that French is enough to be understood and heard, we believe too many often that people will learn it whatsoever. When I travelled in USA, I was crushed by the fact that Spanish or English are necessary and French releguated to a rank like Slowenian or Flemish.

For the moment, I read "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. For whom it may interest, I can explain how I reach this book. Some weeks ago, I read in French The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by E.Poe. In French? Yes, I was convinced by the fact that Charles Baudelaire, one I consider the best poet of French poetry (ever, ever), translated the book and it desserved to be read. It was a gorgeous reading experience, if I may use the expression. I tried afterwards to read in English, Selected Tales and Poems, by Poe but I failed in the very first pages of the first tale :  The Gold Bug. A few days later, I heard in a podcasting program M.Pebereau, a former CEO of BNPParibas, but a Science-Fiction fanatic, talking about the last Dan Simmons'book which introduces the ghost of Dickens in the plot. So, I thought to a Dickens'book and A Christmas Carol was the shortest, the quickest and the most-understandable-first-pages I found. That's the genesis.