On the Friday morning after classes finished, we left for Paris. We had a package deal through a tour company and it was absolutely fabulous. We started off the day by a train ride to Paris, only about 2 hours, and then got on a bus to ride to our cruise. We took a cruise and tour of Paris from the River Seine and learned about all of the famous bridges, buildings, etc. It was so beautiful! Next, we hopped off the boat and walked straight up to the Eiffel Tower. Literally, right off the boat. It was amazing. We took the lift (British term for elevator) to the first floor of the Eiffel Tower where we had an amazing lunch (in the Eiffel Tower!) with champagne and all. Next, we toured the world famous museum, the Louvre, which was really intersting. I even got to see the Mona Lisa!! So awesome. That night, we went for dinner and got drinks later in the evening. The next day, my birthday, we went to the Notre Dame, which was so beautiful. I got a ton of great pictures. Next we explored the city and walked to the Champs Elysees, a famous shopping street. We walked around for most of the day and then went back to our hotel. We had about an hour to kill before our train back to London, so we went upstairs to the hotel bar. The bartender gave us all glasses of free wine and an entire bottle of champagne for my birthday! After, we got back on the train and traveled back to London. It was late by the time we got home, around 11:30 or so.
I unpacked, skyped, ate, and took a 2 hour nap before I had to get up to catch our flight to Italy. We had a taxi pick us up at our flat around 3 am and rode to the airport. Nicolette, Cassidy, and I flew into Rome, checked into our hostel and immediately went out to explore the city. First, we stopped at the Colosseum, which was amazing. We walked around taking pictures for a while, stopped by the gift shop, and went up to the top level to see the view. After, we kept walking until we stumbled upon more amazing buildings, statues, and beautiful roman ruins. Next, we walked to the Trevi Fountain (also amazing!) and took more pictures and threw our coins in to make a wish. We stopped at a cute little Italian restaurant and there I had the BEST pasta of my life. And a glass of italian wine, of course. :) The next day, we decided to visit the Vatican before our train ride to Florence. It was beautiful, and huge! It really is it's own city!! After, we took the train to Florence, about a 2 hour ride. As soon as we got there, we checked into our second hostel, and took an hour train ride to Pisa, another city in Italy. There, we walked to the Leaning Tower of Pisa! I couldn't believe how far it actually leaned! We had to get typical leaning tower pictures and then traveled back to Florence. When we got back, we had yet another amazing dinner and the BEST coffee gelato I HAVE EVER HAD! I wish I could go back to Florence just to get more gelato. The next day, we walked around the city, through the leather market and onto the museum that housed the famous David Statue. We waited in line for 2 hours and finally got into the museum. However, once we got in, I found out that we couldn't take pictures after I had already taken a few, and a crazy lady came screaming at me to stop and stood there until I delted all of my pictures. Ridiculous. Anyway, we then got a nice lunch, and then headed back to catch our flight to London. I'm literally still exhausted from the two trips right after each other. The next day, I didn't set an alarm and slept until 2:30. Guess it was much needed. Not to mention, it took a full 2 days for my feet to recover from all of the walking, they were about 2 times there normal size from all the swelling!
I finally got caught up on rest and had my first day of my internship today. We were emailed an address for a studio, so my friend that I'm interning with met me in our courtyard at 8:30 to head to the studio. We found it and immediately got to work. It was a huge studio! Our task was to prep all of the garments for Fenn Wright Manson's fall line and shoot them on mannequins for their website. I went to fill up the steamer with water to get it going, but the tank wasn't clear, so I couldn't see how full it was getting. It looked like a pretty big tank, so I kept filling it up. Next thing I knew, it was overflowing and water was all of over the floor. The guy in charge came running over and asking me how much water I had put in. I told him 2 jugs and then he decided then to tell me that it only took 1! (How was I supposed to know??) Anyway, after that "whoops" I steamed the rest of the rack, which took a while. After that, Amanda and I started dressing the mannequin, one garment at a time. We worked with a photographer and pinned each garment until it looked perfect. We took a front, back, and inside out shot of each garment for the website. It took forever to get each garment just right, but the photos looked great. For the whole rack, it took about 5 hours to shoot everything. Halfway into the rack, we broke for lunch. Our boss, Rachael, took us to a really cute restaurant where I had meatballs in tomato sauce with saffron rice. We accidentally stayed for 2 hours, due to the slow service and great conversation between the 3 of us. We had a great time. Next thing we knew, they were calling us to come back to the studio. When we got back, we had a few last garments to shoot. It didn't take too long, and after we were done, Rachael let us go home for the day. It was an amazing first day and I'm so excited to see my hard work on their actual website! Here are a few snaps from the day!
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