Volunteering at JET
[ Week 1 ]
Hi! My name is Marie. I am from France. I just moved to Newcastle. It is the first time I am living in an other country. In France we also use the word adventure when we start a new experience, nearly like starting a new life where you have everything to discover. To me, this new experience is an adventure because I am discovering a new culture and meeting many different people.
This blog is about my experience as a volunteer at JET. You can follow here all my different adventures, discoveries and chronicles. Hope you will enjoy it!
This week was my first week at JET as a volunteer.
I have meet the team at the office, and the staff is very friendly. I am very glad to meet so many different people and have the opportunity to know them and see how they work to help people.I have been able to discovers few of their activities. I have been very surprised how they help people in many different fields and always give advice with kindness and respect.
This week I have been able to participate in an ESOL class (English My Way) and it was a great experience. When you are new to a country sometimes you need to learn the language from the very beginning and the way to teach and learn is very different from how I learnt English in France. It was a great experience and I really appreciated this class.
I also went to the West End Women and Girls Centre with Shamaila and I have been able to discover a new place, only for women, where on Wednesday morning they can have some advice and a breakfast. It was a very cosy place. Hopefully I will discover more about Shamaila job in the new few weeks!

