I'm Aarushi Agrawal, currently in 3rd year studying Bachelor of Science in Hospitality and management at Auro University, Surat. With the aid of Destiny Calling, I found a placement at Hotel Du Parc, Restaurants & Spa for six months.Initially I faced certain problems due to language barriers as my hotel only communicated in French. But with constantly striving to improve myself, after a month I could understand all that I was asked to do and after two months had started to communicate in French. According to my preference, I worked in two departments i.e Food and Beverage and Housekeeping. All the supervisors at my department were really helpful and always encouraged to give their best. In order to give your best in 6 months, you need to be patient to deal with barriers and constantly strive for best. Thank You

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Dear Destiny Calling Team,

The opportunity of doing an internship in France and learning of the amazing French culture and language is something that I would always cherish in my life.

I was introduced to real french gastronomy which motivated me to give my 100 percent at my work. My colleagues and seniors taught me a lot of things about the hotel industry and motivated me always to work better. I made some really good friends who were very helpful and always supportive during my work in the hotel.The hotel was like my home(Jiva Hill Hotel) and I have amazing memories working in the hotel right from the General Manager to the Gardener, they were all amazing. We also managed to look around the beautiful cities of France and Switzerland from Lyon, Geneva to Paris. I am really grateful to Destiny Calling that you gave me this lifetime opportunity and that I am completely happy with my internship experience.

Thank you so much.

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Internship at - Les Suites Du Nevada, Tignes - France

College - Auro University, Gujarat, India

It was great getting an opportunity to do my internship in France, learning and experiencing the culture and language which is definitely going to help me in future. Learning a new language is difficult but given some time and practice it is easier to gain confidence in the language. Talking about myself, when I started my internship in Restaurant Service, at the initial stage I was very nervous about catching up with language and the working style of the restaurant, but then as I started putting efforts for learning and gaining knowledge and daily practices I was able to cope up with the situations somehow. Later, I set a goal to myself about; improving my language and communicating more in French with my customers and colleagues and hopefully I was able to reach my goal to some level. This was a little achievement within me which motivated me to work happily and with courage. The most important thing I would like to mention is - it is said that interns in restaurant service or kitchen are mostly given the basic work and majorly the back of the house work where you don’t have to deal with language issues and other such issues, but I would like to say this does not apply to my internship. I do majorly the front of the house work just as other permanent employees. This is one of the biggest motivations for me to work in the department and I have actually learned a lot and had a great experience.

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I'm Aarushi Agrawal, currently in 3rd year studying Bachelor of Science in Hospitality and management at Auro University, Surat. With the aid of Destiny Calling, I found a placement at Hotel Du Parc, Restaurants & Spa for six months.Initially I faced certain problems due to language barriers as my hotel only communicated in French. But with constantly striving to improve myself, after a month I could understand all that I was asked to do and after two months had started to communicate in French. According to my preference, I worked in two departments i.e Food and Beverage and Housekeeping. All the supervisors at my department were really helpful and always encouraged to give their best. In order to give your best in 6 months, you need to be patient to deal with barriers and constantly strive for best. Thank You

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Dear Destiny Calling Team,

The opportunity of doing an internship in France and learning of the amazing French culture and language is something that I would always cherish in my life.

I was introduced to real french gastronomy which motivated me to give my 100 percent at my work. My colleagues and seniors taught me a lot of things about the hotel industry and motivated me always to work better. I made some really good friends who were very helpful and always supportive during my work in the hotel.The hotel was like my home(Jiva Hill Hotel) and I have amazing memories working in the hotel right from the General Manager to the Gardener, they were all amazing. We also managed to look around the beautiful cities of France and Switzerland from Lyon, Geneva to Paris. I am really grateful to Destiny Calling that you gave me this lifetime opportunity and that I am completely happy with my internship experience.

Thank you so much.

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Internship at - Les Suites Du Nevada, Tignes - France

College - Auro University, Gujarat, India

It was great getting an opportunity to do my internship in France, learning and experiencing the culture and language which is definitely going to help me in future. Learning a new language is difficult but given some time and practice it is easier to gain confidence in the language. Talking about myself, when I started my internship in Restaurant Service, at the initial stage I was very nervous about catching up with language and the working style of the restaurant, but then as I started putting efforts for learning and gaining knowledge and daily practices I was able to cope up with the situations somehow. Later, I set a goal to myself about; improving my language and communicating more in French with my customers and colleagues and hopefully I was able to reach my goal to some level. This was a little achievement within me which motivated me to work happily and with courage. The most important thing I would like to mention is - it is said that interns in restaurant service or kitchen are mostly given the basic work and majorly the back of the house work where you don’t have to deal with language issues and other such issues, but I would like to say this does not apply to my internship. I do majorly the front of the house work just as other permanent employees. This is one of the biggest motivations for me to work in the department and I have actually learned a lot and had a great experience.

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Bonjour, my name is Ishab Singh and I am glad to share my traveling experience from India to France, the place where every second person dreams to come and work. Finally, it was the day when I had to leave for my internship. I was excited as well as nervous because it would totally be a new experience for me. It was a big day for me as I was traveling all alone to this new venture of my life. And the commencement of this journey was with the blessings of my family. They came to see me off to the airport but they had to wait for half an hour as it was a long queue to get my boarding pass. The next stoppage was security check inn for which I sat on the bench and my name was announced and i felt nervous because my departure time was near but when I went there, they told me that they have detected an unallowed object which was my power bank and they had thrown it away which made me sad. But then I boarded my plane and got a seat next to a student who was traveling for work in another country. I had a good conversation with her. Next, I had a stopover at Russia which was a little bit confusing for me but somehow I managed to go through the security check but there was no gate number mentioned on my boarding pass so I asked the help desk but they replied to me in Russian so I went to the board where all the flight timings were mentioned and I somehow figured details about my flight and sat near my gate. And the weather was amazing out there, it was snowing all over.

I made a new friend over there who was Japanese but she was sort of lost and I helped her to find her gate number. After waving off her it was time for my flight to board. I traveled by airport bus to the plane. The meal in the flight was delicious. Ultimately, I landed in France. After check out, I went to buy the train tickets but there was some issue because the machine did not accept my card so I panicked but somehow an old Indian man over there came for the help and paid for my ticket. With all my luggage I boarded my train and within an hour I was at Grenoble station. I took a taxi to the Uriage Les Bains which is on the outskirts of the city, where my hotel was. The taxi man was a nice person, he gave me some information about the area and dropped me to the hotel. I went to the reception and told them about the details so they allotted me the room and food timings were told to me. The service staff people were warm hearted and treated me nicely as I was new to their work environment. They showed me the property and gave me the necessary information regarding my shifts for the work. There I met with a cheerful person who came out to be the chef under whom I had to work. His name is Chef Romain. The gastronomy staff was also very kind.

Coming to the place where I had my accommodation, wifi and washing machine installed. After a few days I had a refrigerator. And my room had a very scenic view with park facing all my windows. All my experience was quite good. My neighbor is my colleague who is the gastro chef, Huges, who takes me to the city whenever he goes there. We celebrate every Sunday night after the shift is over. I have another neighbor who is a sommelier her name is Veronica and when I get time I go on evening walks with her. I am liking this environment because people over here are very cheerful and always try to help others. They have different culture from us but I am trying to adapt with the changing environment.

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