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Catherine Aygen
Consultante Formatrice & Coach en Prise de Parole en Anglais | Dirigeante d’A Star Formation (Qualiopi) | Top 3 européen de discours improvisé | Appli IA d’analyse de discours
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November 1, 2024
Hier, j'ai fait un voyage épique de 11 heures en train, de Cannes à Lausanne. On pourrait se demander pourquoi, alors qu'un vol Nice - Genève ne prend que 45 minutes. Eh bien, plutôt pour des raisons environnementales. En plus, parce que mon fils devait transporter son arc et ses flèches 🏹, ce qui est compliqué dans l'avion. Je me suis rendu compte que les voyages internationaux en train ne sont pas faciles à réserver, surtout quand il faut contourner les Alpes : Je devrais passer par les sites des réseaux ferroviaires de deux pays et faire correspondre les correspondances. Finalement, le plus simple était de faire un voyage plus long à travers l'Italie, le tout réservé sur le site suisse. Les inconvénients ? ❌ Il faut une journée libre à passer dans le train ! Mais il y a plein de points positifs : ✅ On a passé la journée à regarder des paysages magnifiques : la Méditerranée, le lac maggiore, les montagnes ✅ Tous les trains étaient à l'heure et on a eu le temps de manger une part de pizza entre deux trains. ✅ On a tous les deux réussi à faire beaucoup de travail. ✅ Le café dans les distributeurs automatiques des trains italiens est excellent ! ✅ Une fois qu’on a pris en compte les bagages, le transport vers et depuis l'aéroport, le train était moins cher que l'avion. La prochaine fois, je tente Grasse - Londres en train. Et vous ? Team train ou avion ?
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November 1, 2024
Last week I had one of the scariest experiences of my life. I was flying back from Amsterdam to Nice after the Toastmasters international conference. Everything was as usual, until the pilot announced, “We’re going back to Amsterdam.” Everyone in the plane groaned. But then he added, “There’s an electrical fault which has affected the brakes and we don’t know if the back up braking system has been affected or not. We need to go back to Amsterdam to land on the longest runway possible. The crew will now prepare you for an emergency landing in 30 minutes.” The worst thing was that I could hear in the pilot’s voice that he was stressed. I looked at the crew’s faces and although they were calm, their faces showed that they were scared. The next 30 minutes were spent practising the brace position, removing all jewellery, glasses, tightening our seatbelts, learning how to open the emergency doors. We were told to study the safety card, which everyone did more intently than ever before! And like most of the other people on the plane, I was quietly worrying that we’d crash at the end of the runway and perhaps this was how I was going to die. We landed in brace position, with the crew shouting “brace for landing”. Luckily the emergency brakes worked 😅 If you’re expecting me to tell you that I have now changed my life for the better and I’m giving everything up to become a life coach… …I’m not 😆 I did say to myself, “Only trains from now on”, but I still had to get home and that involved two flights the next day. What I did realise was sometimes you have to give up control and put yourself in the hands of people who are trained for this. Also that after we landed, all the passengers were talking to each other, everyone was friendly and helpful. And when I saw some of my fellow passengers the next day, it’s like we were friends, bonded by this experience. And that made me think, why can’t we always create these human connections, even when we’re not in such an emotionally charged situation? So that is my resolution from this experience: make more human connections with everyone around me. (Photo taken from my flight home the next day: I’ve never been so happy to see the Îles Lerins 😁)
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