Thursday, December 17 2009

Malta

Good morning,

We are writing to tell you how life in Malta is.

In the morning, we have English lesson at University (from Monday to Friday).
Our lesson begin at 9.00 am until 12.30. In the afternoon, there are a lot of activities at University.
We started on the 5th of October 2009, and we will finish our lesson at University on the 18th of December.
Then, on the 1st of February we’ll begin our work placement in a company.
Aurelia could like to do her work placement in the Marketing’s sector, and Melanie in the Management of an International chain.
Our work placement will finish on the 7th of May 2010.

Every Saturday afternoon, we’ve business lesson with a private teacher.
Our teacher comes in our residence for this lesson from 01.00 pm until 04.00 pm.
We have to build a business plan/project (similar to “Cas Crea”) with her. By the end of January this has to be ready.
Aurelia’s about a European Hotel Restaurant with sustainable materials, and Melanie is working on a hypermarket with automatic cashdesk and scan because in Malta there aren’t any.

We’re staying in”Garden View” in Swieqi. It’s a very nice residence. We’ve made a lot of friends from different countries.
In this residence, there is a pool, a gym, a restaurant, a launderette and we have a self catering flat. We have a bedroom each, a bathroom and a kitchen in our flat.
We aren’t very far from the University, we spend approximately thirty minutes by bus to University.

The weather in Malta is good. Last September and October, it was around 25°C, and in November and December, it’s 15 - 20°C.
Until now, we haven’t seen a lot of rains.

We’re going back to France on the 19th of December for Christmas and we’ll come back to Malta in the middle of January.

We hope to have answered all your questions.

Best regards,

Melanie and Aurelia.

Wednesday, December 16 2009

Manchester

Quartier Chinois de Manchester, avec des restos pas cher et super!!

IFAG GAP YEAR England

The Library of Manchester

IFAG GAP YEAR England

Un très bon bar!
IFAG GAP YEAR England

Tuesday, December 15 2009

Manchester Metropolitan University

Hi Everyone,

As you know, Manchester is a famous place for football supporters!!

I passed one semester overthere (TWIST) and I've really enjoyed my time. There are much pubs and clubs to have great times with others foreign students.

The city is gorgeous and the University is huge too!!

 About the course program, the only 4 classes are really interesting and the main units are Business & Sustainability, Entreprise Perspectives, Entreprising Management and Social Entreprise.

I advise this University to everyone! 

If any of you wish informations, pop me an email or visit the website of the University :

www.mmu.ac.uk

romain.arsac@hotmail.com

Take care guys, see you soon!

Rom

Tuesday, December 8 2009

Cambridge

Hello all,

I think I'm the first to write on this blog so I tried to be clear...

I studied my first two years in Paris IFAG. My first choice was go to New York for my Gap Year but it wasn't possible for me. So I have chosen Cambridge to improve my English for the TOEIC but also to know another culture.
I have chosen the TWIST program and I am finishing my first semester.
I think Cambridge is a very good place to improve English but also to meet many different nationalities. It's a good thing in the first day because when you speak with another foreign, it's easier to understand and to be understood. Because it's very hard to understand Englishguys when you arrive; they speak very quickly and with their accent.

I think there are only two problems with the university of Cambridge: there are many French and we have few hours of lessons per week. With my modules I gets only 8 hours on three days.

The student life is very nice, there is a big party each week on the campus, there is a big library, many social activity and sport activity and a new gym room on the campus.

I'm very happy of this experience.

Just an advice when you are interesting to do a Gap Year; to take contact with Simon Mitchell of course but also contacted students who are there because we are living your future experience maybe.

grégoire

Thursday, October 29 2009

University of Malta

Discover the website of University of Malta !

www.um.edu.mt

Wednesday, October 28 2009

New Season 2009!

We are delighted to launch our first IFAG International Blog, especially designed for our Gap Year students in the United Kingdom and Australia. Please keep us up to date with progress and developments over the coming months including events, anecdotes, everyday life and of course, with plenty of photos.