It's been a few eventful days. On Thursday, I went to class to present a practice run of our final project with my group. It went pretty well, so I'm hoping my final project will go pretty quickly since I already know what to do. Except, for my final project, I have to do some sketches of garments, so that might take a while. After class, my flatmate Jess and I went to go find my internship site. It was pretty easy to find, but I'm glad I went the day before. I figured I would already have enough anxiety about the interview on Friday and didn't want to add more pressure by having to find the location. Anyway, after, we went to a couple of stores to check out the awesome sales. I didn't buy anything, but almost every store had at least 30% off sales! Trying to conserve my money for Paris and such. :) We went to a bead shop to get beads for the headband Jess is making for one of her classes and then went down the street to a pub called The George, for my first traditional fish and chips experience! It was SO delicious!
I love fish anyway, but this was fantastic. And, of course, they had strawberry and lime cider, so we had to each get a bottle. I was so excited to finally get my fish and chips. After, we went home to get ready for the night. Shelise had a model casting that night at a club, Amika, and was allowed to bring 5 guests. We got ready, took pictures, and headed out. We got the tube station, walked for a little ways, and waited in line. They let us in for no cover and then led us into a small room and directed us toward one table where we were supposed to stay seated. All of the other girls assumed it was a model casting as well, so we all stayed in the booth. Ends up, there was confusion between the club and the modeling agency and the club wasn't aware that there was a casting at all. After 30 minutes or so, more people started to show up and they gave us all free drinks. Even though there wasn't a casting, it was still a good time! It was a ridiculously nice club, I couldn't even believe there was no cover charge. There were security guards EVERYWHERE and at first, I was afraid to even take photos. Overall though, pretty good night.
On Friday, I slept in a bit and got up to get ready for my interview. I got up 2 hours before I had to leave, so I didn't have to feel rushed and have time to collect my thoughts. I ran through all of the questions I thought they might ask, had 2 copies of my resume and my cover letter ready to go, and my outfit finalized. I was ready really early, so I relaxed in the kitchen with my flatmates until it was time to leave. I left a little more than an hour before my interview, which was way too early. I ended up arriving at my interview location 45 minutes before my interview, so I walked down the street to a little cafe and ordered a can of Sprite and sipped on it until 20 minutes before my interview. I went to the building, buzzed in, headed up to the 4th floor and introduced myself to the receptionist. The office was VERY small and the interview was very informal, which I was really happy about! My interviewer, Rachel, was really young and trendy and very nice. She sat me down, asked me a couple of questions about my resume, and told me about the company. She explained that my lunch would be paid for everyday (amazing!) and that any extra transportation would be paid for if they were to send me to a different part of the UK for work. She said I would be attending visual merchandising meetings with her and her colleague and go to their retail stores to inspect displays and even create some of my own! I'm so excited to get started!! I can't believe I'm lucky enough to be able to have this amazing experience. I will be so much more confident in the career field when I go back to the states knowing that I have experience working abroad in a culture drastically different than my own.
After my interview, I came home to relax and eat. I had a lot of homework to do, so I put a pizza in the oven and went back to my room to get some work done. I guess I set the timer for too long and then forgot about the pizza, so when the timer buzzed, the top of my pizza was burnt to a crisp. It was just cheese pizza, so I ate it anyway, since only the top was burnt. After dinner, I started to look for flights to Italy, since the flatmates and I are dying to go there. After a couple of hours, I actually found a roundtrip flight for 218 pounds! I think it was a pretty good deal considering the prices I had seen before. So after researching for what seemed like forever, we finally booked the flight at about 3 am. We will be going to Paris on the 8th and coming back to London late on the 9th, then getting up the next morning, the 10th, for a flight to Rome at 6 am. We will arrive in Rome around 9 am, check into our hostel, and sightsee to the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, and maybe the Vatican. The next day, we will take a train to Florence and spend the day and night there. On the 12th, Tuesday night, our flight out of Florence back to London is at 7 pm, so I'm super excited for such an exciting trip!!! Paris to Rome to Florence in a week's time! Then the next day will be the first day that I start my internship. I'll be exhausted, but it will be SOO worth it!
Today, Nicolette and I got up and went to the Tower Bridge. We didn't really know exactly where we were going, but we just asked people until we found our way there. It was SO amazingly beautiful! We walked across the bridge and then down into a park where the view of the entire bridge was visible. That's also where I got the best pictures:
Beautiful, right??
After that, we were pretty exhausted so we came back to the flat to work on our photo shoot for styling tomorrow. This is our final project, not in the studio, so we contacted a student photographer and Shelise will be our model. My theme is Phantom of the Opera-ish (still have to come up with a decent title). I have a black mask and all the garments are either black or white and flowy and romantic. Our location is St. James Park and St. James Palace, so I'm excited to see how it turns out! Hopefully I'll have the images tomorrow night, so I can post them soon. Also, tomorrow morning, we are going to mass at St. Paul's Cathedral, which I'm really excited about,too. After mass, we are going to have tea time at 2 pm and then our shoot is at 4. Sounds like a pretty amazing day to me. :) Then it's home to do more homework...I better hit the hay before this big day tomorrow!
Good night and thanks for reading!
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