Kate is doing a French and Spanish degree at the University of Birmingham. She spent her year abroad as a British Council teaching assistantship in Laon, a small town in Picardie. She says "I didn't choose to go there at all, it wasn't even on my list of preferences, the British Council chose to send me there. Looking back, I'm so pleased that they did. My year abroad couldn't have been any better, and now that I'm in my final year I just can't wait to graduate so I can be back in France." Here are her top ten Language Assistant survival tactics...