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Certains maîtres de stage nous livrent leurs impressions et parfois en anglais... L’implication des candidats est fondamentale dans l’appréciation des maîtres de stage. L’attitude, l’humilité, les efforts au quotidien dans la progression linguistique sont essentiels dans la perception des hôtes. Ainsi, c’est se donner les moyens pour que le stagiaire soit accompagné dans sa découverte et évolution. C’est un message de première importance pour réussir son séjour.
Témoignages de maîtres de stage
Del and Monica - USA - Céréales - 2011
I wanted to send you a e-mail to inform you that Romain left for his home in France on 12/2/11. Thank you, for the opportunity for or family to have a intern like Romain @ our farm, he is a very professional young man. His parents should be very proud of him. Romains work performance would be rated as excellent he is very fast learner, understands farm equipment, motor vehicle operation and equipment operating. He is a all around fast learner. Romain operated several different tractors, trucks and farm implements on our operation this season with no difficulties. Romain work was top quality.
After Romains arrival in April we worked in the farm shop on machine maintenance than into the fields, we had record snow melt and very heavy rains this season that left our fields flooded. Farming conditions in 2011 where very difficult .
Romain has left our farm, and will be missed dearly, Our family has made a friend and he will be in our hearts and prays for life.
Hayley - Australia - Moisson - 2011
Renaud is great. He is still driving the header (combine harvester) and is friendly with our other staff and settling into all communication well. He is showing us some humour too, which is great. Mark is still impressed with his skills and workmanship. There has been talk of Renaud coming back or staying for seeding in the winter.
Mary - Ireland - Production laitière avec transformation - 2011
Gaetan is just amazing. He is one of the nicest lads to ever reside with us and it is pleasure to have him here. Derek and Packie get on so well with him. He’s been to the market in Dublin for the last 2 Saturdays and it is great for his english. He is now fully capable of milk processing and yogurt making. Every Sunday he is a tourist. All is well. His English is improving and we have many discussions about farming and processing and he is quite capable of taking part in same. As my Dad said "He is a super guy"
Shiraz - Canada en Ontario - viticulture - oenology - 2011
Geoffrey is doing very well. He is working very hard and working well with the rest of the staff. He appears to be enjoying himself and always works with a pleasant demeanor. I also think he likes his accommodation and the family whose home he is in.
We have harvested over half of the fruit so far. The vintage has been up and down with poor, rainy weather and warm, sunny weather, not necessarily good for the grapes.
Hugh - Australia - Arable farm with sheep - 2011
So far everything is wonderful.
Bert had the flu for the first few days but gave it to us all and then he improved.
We all get on well and we are trying to get some friends of his own age. All seems good.
He is interested and interesting and makes an effort with English.[A huge effort really]
He is good around the house. All in all so far it is great.
I am having trouble in convincing Bert on the benefits of GM Foods.
So I think Bert is happy and Jenny and I are.
Bert has an excellent work ethic we have mostly been tailing and vaccinating sheep and he has picked up sheep work well.
One of our tractors is the same as one his father has so he immediately went on it.
He has been fencing a couple of days and handled it well.
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Bert is going very well, he is fantastic in his work ethic and fitting in with family life here in Cootamundra. His English is improving every day. This is mainly due to the amount of study he is doing. We have been able to arrange social events that also helps with his English. Hugh and I will be away till 19th October and Bert will be looking after our house and working each day with son Justin. I think he is happy and he has a wonderful sense of humour.
Geraldine - Irlande - 2011 - Bed and Breakfast with young students from a network MFR
Amandine is fine and is also her friend Marine who is living in another B&B. Amandine is learning more English words everyday. Sometimes, they get lonely but that is understandable as they are away from their families and they are very young. Amandine is a good help to me but I try not to make her work more than 3 hours a day as they are not being paid. Amandine likes me and my husband and we are good friends. The two girls are gone to Limerick for the weekend to see another French girl called Pauline so I hope they will have a nice time together.
Margaret - Australia - 2011 - Beef cattle and poultry
Today I have a day off as Francois is at the chicken farm today and for the rest of the week. We have been busy doing many jobs including maintenance on farm and halter breaking bulls and a cow with the possibility of taking animals to the Adelaide show. Next week I hope to have the heifers home and they will be halter broken expecting to take at least two to the SA Heifer EXPO (see on internet).
I enjoy having Francois about the house and he has had a chance to meet with my family particularly my grandchildren. He has spent one weekend with his friend and is planning another this weekend. He spends most nights talking over mobile or internet and this may mean that his learning of English (or rather Australia) is maybe a bit slow. We do have a few misunderstandings.
He is a good worker and quick to learn with lots of initiative and a pleasant manner and I hope he is enjoying his stay. Is it probably a bit difference from being a horse rider rounding up cattle in the outback, which is a bit rare these days where mostly it is motorbikes and helicopters. The EXPO is in July and has a strong learning component to it with young people up to 23 years.
Roma - Australie - 2011 - Dairy production.
I wanted to write to let you know how great Jennifer is going. We are very happy with her. She is a bright and happy girl who is fitting very well into our home and she is fantastic on the farm too. It is great to have such a good experience like this. Please keep us on the program we would love to host a student all the time if we can.
Andrew et Louise - Australie - 2011 - Cereals.
Just wanted to send a quick follow up to let you know that Quentin is adjusting well to Australian life and is working well with us here on the farm. He is very hard working and we are very impressed with him.
Andrew - Sud Ouest de l’Angleterre - 2011 - Organic farm - Dairy production with processing. Course provided to public about cheesemaking process.
Julie is doing very well and is I hope very happy as she seems to be. She is advancing in her english and as well as the farm work is learning how to make cheese etc as well as spending 3 days last weekend selling it at a food fair. We ave also taught her how to shear a sheep, milk cows feed animals etc. She is a lovely girl, who interacts with the family very well and also wants to work hard and get as much out of her placement as possible. She will go a long way in the future and if they are all as good as her we will consider another placement.
Mary - Irlande - 2010 - Dairy farm and vegetable growing -
GREAT Anne Laure is a super worker and catches on quickly. Her English has really improved but this is because she works hard at it. She helps with the milking morning and evening - I even got a few mornings in bed and I cannot remember the last time that happened. Piaras has found life easier as she has helped change the electric fence on the heifers and cows with him each day - she can drive a tractor now also.
We took her to see Muckross House’s old style farm in Killarney where they make bread and butter the old fashioned way - she has only seen the larger industrial way, she has also made some Pottery at Louis Mulcahy’s Pottery where I work, helped a child with his first ride on a pony, gone fishing with both of our nephews on different occasions and caught our dinner and our neighbor has taken her to the Skellig island by boat and swimming in Comeenole, she has gone to Puck fair the day of the horse fair, she ran the Dingle marathon last weekend (1/2)in 2 hours 14 min., gone to visited a goat farmer and helped round up some sheep, learned to use a sewing machine and made her first pair a trousers from scratch - cutting out pattern etc, And that’s only 1/2 of it. Claire her friend from college who is working in Mitchelstown milking 300 cows came for a night.
Tue. when she collect her hired car Piaras first took her to The South Pole Inn where she learned all about Tom Crean the Antarctic explorer.
Anne Laure is now going to travel Ireland with her sister Charlotte who has just arrived in Ireland last night. They will spend the last few nights in Dublin with the neighbor I spoke of earlier.
Amandine et Pauline, jeunes étudiantes du réseau MFR placées dans des familles d’accueil en bed and breakfast.
Recevant des visiteurs au quotidien pour découvrir le pays, c’est une formule qui permet aux jeunes d’initier une première expérience de courte durée à l’étranger avec une pratique linguistique. Les régions sont en générales pittoresques et l’immersion culturelle riche.