martedì 12 luglio 2011

STUDY ABROAD: Multi-Destination Internship Program: LUMENG JIN'S Experience with ISTITUTO EUROPEO





STUDY ABROAD: Multi-Destination Internship Program: LUMENG JIN'S Experience with ISTITUTO EUROPEO







Q1: Where Is Your Internship?
A1:  Albenga, Italy. Chemical lab for food\water analysis. 

Q2: What Are Your Tasks And Assignments As An Intern?
A2: Chemical analysis of local water\ food samples for pesticides, metals etc. 

Q3: How is the Communication barrier? 
A3:  Half of the staffs at work speak English, they explain well and they are very patient. 

Q4: How well does this Internship correlate with your major concentration?
A4: Pretty well. Not exactly as what I expected, but the tasks at my internship is interesting and worth learning. Using scientific equipments is a challenge, but most of them are national-wide used and learning how to use them is very helpful.

Q5: Tell us about your experience in Italy? What are your thoughts on Italian culture and life style?
A5: Amazing. People are friendly, environment of working\living is joyful, especially Italian food are awesome! I'm very luck to have a chance to live with a host family, and I learned more about the culture and Italian life style by spending daily time with them. I found out people have late dinners, and love to spend more time on exercises, everyone looks fit and cheerful...... It's definitely different from American, but I enjoy it very much.

Q6: After Interning and living in Italy would you stay if you had the chance?
A6: Yes!

Q7: Overall remarks and Opinions... Do You Like Your Internship?
A7: Yes! Learning and experiencing at the same time is awesome!