Revelut,+Emmanuelle

I’m sure I’m not the only one for whom the Amity Program was such a wonderful experience. It still has such an impact on my life and my relationship with others. I still have contacts with the Amities I was with and with the friends I made at UWL.

Since I came back to France 6 years ago, I have not practice English much and I don’t use it at work.

I have been the Executive Training Manager at Institute Superieur de Gestion (a business college in Paris, France) since January 2009. I am setting up the "Validation des Acquis de l'Experience," which is a system that allows people to get the professional skills they have acquired through experience validated by a jury in order to get the school's diploma without any formal training. Somehow even I have evolved in different fields, my jobs have always been related to training and connecting with people.

Back to my Amity Year at UW-La. I had such a rich and hectic life during that year that when I came back to France, I kept my hectic way of living and passed 3 exams and work in 5 different places, sometimes at the same time, within 3 years. I thus go a Masters degree in English (civilization and literature) in 2005 and a Masters degree in Didactics and TEaching French as a Second Language in 2006. From 2003 to 2005, I taught French and English to high school students and young children a few hours a week. During the same time, chance turned me into a movie production assistant in Paris. In 2006, the traineeships I did turned into employment contracts in famous publishing houses in Paris (Hatier, Edicef, Hachette International) and in a company in charge All of French audiovisual cooperation with developing countries. My work there in publica relations brought me, for example, to help organize a world conference gathering more that 300 media leaders at UNESCO. In November 2007, I became an Account and Training Manager a Cifap, a professional training center specializing in the audiovisual, radio and publishing professions.

All these years, I have been dreaming of traveling, working abroad again, and knowing people in other countries, as I had such a wonderful experience at UW-L. I have kept in touch with and visited some of the friends I made at that time. I also met a lot of different new people of different cultures in Paris, when doing a traineeship for a summer at the Alliance Francaise de Paris. I am very happy that the "Amity magic" is still working in my life: this summer, I will meet Denis Provencher, one of the French professors I worked with, and my best friend, Amparo Alpanes, an ex-Amity who was also one of my "housements." Also, my boyfriend is Danish, ,and I met him 6 hears ago at UW-L when he was studying there. . . ..