My London Experience: My Work

Actually, I didn’t start working immediately. I first had to attend some English courses for one week at the English center, in Lewisham. It was quite boring but I met a few people with whom I had some drinks and a meatball barbecue. Then truly began the working experience: I had an internship job in a company selling discs, disc replicators and printers. It was located in Greenwich. I didn’t have a specific post, and handled random tasks such as answering on the after sales online forum, helping the webmaster transfer links from the previous website to the new one, fill in product descriptions, etc. At the end, we received a mini printer and I had to write a review about it (the article can be found here).

The working atmosphere was kind of cool, because we were 5 interns on a total of 9 employees, but it wasn’t easy to speak English all the time, as 4 of us were French. Our boss was relatively young so we had fun, even with him! Besides, every Thursdays, after work, everybody was going to the nearby pub to have some drinks and chill out.

Amid all this good time, there was all the same a negative point: lunchtime. We had the choice between a salad from Somerfield or Sainsbury’s, some McDonald’s burgers or some Asian takeout. I personally had a preference for the latter one, but we only had a one-hour break and didn’t really have enough time to relax.