Bao wrote:Oh, sure, the phone is certainly useful - I'd just prefer it if all people used it for messenging and mailing rather than wanting to talk with people. The person in question, I only today realized she'd written me an email offering me an internship for 6 months, just in case, when her files and my CV said it was for two months. And I did not get that from the phone call at all. Maybe they assumed that it was starting in February or March, because they aren't used to people not having the normal succession of internships the Frenchie students do, so she assumed I'd had just made a mistake in the way I put that. I don't know. I can't read minds.
sorry that I can't exactly understand which: she offered the internship after or before the phone call? You want 2 months?
bao wrote:vogeltje wrote:Thanks for the explanation. It seems a stressful job, I can imagine that you'd prefer to do the calculations in an office. So it's in the construction of buildings? Like houses, flats, larger buildings as well?
For many people it's a good job, but I'm not really good at reacting quickly to changes in the circumstances and making decisions on the spot ...
I should by now be able to calculate easy examples of things like single houses, apartment buildings, basic foundations, basic halls and factory buildings etc. But I'm not really confident in myself, especially as while my classmates in Germany practice using the norms they are supposed to use in their chosen field, teaching here in France is much messier, the graduates are expected to train on the job - and some of the things we are 'taught' make absolutely no sense whatsoever. Like the introduction of a model calculation with forces that are six times bigger than the maximum that will break the whole thing.
... I basically whine whenever I talk about here. Probably also because I couldn't really make friends, and am quite lonely.
But, yes. Calculating things is actually fun, when I know how to do it, or have enough time to figure it out.
How confusing I know that maths is very different in each country. I know a girl who studied engineering in flanders for some months and she couldn't do it so she returned to Wallonia because the maths was too different. She said it wasn't a language problem.
Sorry that you couldn't really make friends and that you're lonely ((((((hugs))))))). I'm so shy with people that I don't make friends, but I only want few because I don't like a lot of them. About France, in Belgium, the people say that in France they are not friendly, and that everyone must do everything their way and conform. Mostly, the foreigners assume that Walloons are completely french except for the passport, but it's not true. Although when I was in France I liked it so much, but we were in Normandy, not Paris. Paris is famous for the unfriendly manners and judgemental (all the world must conform), but of course they think that all belgians are countryside idiots. When can you return to Germany?