J'ai un autre entretien...?

What the hell?

I know that I should be grateful, because as Sam very kindly reminded me, everyone in the program would love to have options vis-a-vis their internships, but Jill hates making decisions. Jill would rather have just been thrown into the first internship BU found for her and then if things were terrible, she could just blame them for the rest of her life. But oh no, now Jill has to take responsibility. Now she must also stress not only about prepping for her crazy French interview in the middle of sketchville-that-is-not-Paris, but she has to worry about contacting some other company about a possibly better intership that she probably won't have time to look into before she has to make a decision about the first one.

Okay, sorry. You're all probably asking yourselves two very important questions: 1. What the hell is Jill talking about? and 2. Why is Jill referring to herself in the third person?

I will answer question 2. first because it is much easier: Sam says I need to do it more often because it is très amusant.

Reponse à question numero un:

I have recieved an e-mail from another company (Ubisoft) that the internship coordinator at BU has been trying to get in touch with for months. In the e-mail (which was in English, with a Chinese phone number--sketch, right?), the woman says that she found my CV interesting and thinks I would be a good match for a Paris internship. She does not say anything about my possible position or even the location in Paris, but would I like to make an appointment for a phone interview?

Umm...would I? I don't know! What the hell is going on?

So I go talk to the internship coordinator (Julie), who is extremely nice and helpful, and she agrees that this is very very bizarre. She says that students have worked with Ubisoft in the past and that it would be mostly straight up translation and it would be more commerical than the other internship, and she says that if I want to look into it I can, but that due to the agreement BU has with the companies that provide internships, she would like to have an answer about the first internship by tomorrow afternoon.

SO. Jill's day tomorrow is this: 10h00 interview in the middle of nowhere, 11h45 field trip class to Musee D'Orsay, 15h00 Literature class

When exactly during all of this is Jill supposed to call said company and have said possible crazy phone interview, provided they are even available? Also how could Jill possibly make an educated decision after a PHONE interview?

What the hell.

I'm hoping that the first interview tomorrow will be mindblowingly awesome and so I'll be able to take it and know that I won't regret a thing.

OH and this would all be alright if the e-mail I had recieved about this being a competitive internship was true, but Julie apologized and told me that she'd been mistaken, they definitely want me. So. Now I just feel terrible.

Also I scoped out the place of the first internship and it is in a very, very sketchy neighborhood. The building itself is fine and respectable looking, but je ne sais pas... However, Julie tells me that Ubisoft is in Montreuil also, so that at least won't factor into my decision.