La langue des conventions collectives…

Today really looks like Fall… greyish and rainy weather… cold and damp… in other words, nothing to cheer you up… and it will be like this until we finally get snow and the sun returns with Winter… C’est le Canada!

Thursday morning, Kate’s results came in and she got her C in oral interaction… she was afraid she had not done well enough because of her examiner’s coolness… well, as I said previously, this factor is rarely relevant… though I do understand candidates’ worries…

Congratulations Kate!

Krystal’s results did not come in before the weekend…  therefore we will have to wait… Corey spent his whole day at CRA in Montreal taking his reading comprehension and written expression tests (plus the security clearance process)… he called me as soon as he got out: as usual, he is like any other of my students, he does not really know how he did… it could go either way! All we can do is hope for the best… and he was told the results will not come in before four or six weeks!…

What about testing your knowledge of the collective agreements jargon?… I got a perfect score on this test, but I guess it is only due to all those hours spent working with Campus Direct test samples which are always filled with Human Resources texts!… Try this one out and let me know how you did…

If today was a miserable day, last weekend was just terrific!

Here is a view of the Ottawa River taken from the Parliement Hill…

Ottawa River 3

To take the test, click here

Good Luck!

;-)

 

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2 Comments

  1. Isabelle
    Posted October 26, 2009 at 1:08 pm | Permalink

    Bonjour Lyne,

    J’ai eu 55/60. Pas mal pour un sujet assez technique !

    Ici ce sont les vacances de la Toussaint jusqu’au 4 novembre pour les écoliers.
    Le temps est toujours beau et doux, et les arbres commencent tout juste à changer de couleur.

    Passe une très bonne semaine !

    • Posted October 26, 2009 at 3:10 pm | Permalink

      Bonjour Isabelle,

      En effet très bon score puisqu’il s’agissait de vocabulaire spécialisé… cela me donne à penser que le même jargon est employé en France! ;-)

      Ici, malheureusement, le prochain congé arrivera en décembre à l’occasion de Noël :-( Quoique le Jour du Souvenir (11 novembre), dans la capitale nationale, nous ayons congé ce jour-là – mais ce n’est pas à travers le pays!

      Hier, c’était une journée magnifique: il a fait beau et chaud même s’il y avait trop de vent à mon goût… ce midi, le ciel s’est ennuagé et voilà que nous sommes repartis sur la galère de la pluie et du temps gris… c’est novembre chez nous!

      Toi aussi, passe une excellente semaine!

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