Firstly, I cleaned my room tonight which was a large accomplishment. Some people probably wouldn't even consider this clean, but to me, it's a BIG difference. I also cleaned out my email inbox, researched the cities I am visiting, uploading pictures from my memory card, charged my camera, bought tickets for Wicked since they are only on special until next week, adjusted my bank account for the weekend, applied for a frequent shopper card at Tesco (a local supermarket), and wrote some letters. Now, I am blogging which I have also been procrastinating on this week. I'm not sure why, since I'm loving writing the blog. Perhaps, because this week was just ordinary unlike every other one up to this point.
Tuesday 26 October 2010
I had two classes on Tuesday. I was pretty tired, still, from the previous weekend. Branding was in the morning. This was one of the first class periods where we covered some new information that I had not already learned at Butler. I still have yet to start on the final paper....yikes. Next week I am going to HAVE to get going on that. I guess I have done minimal research (well, if visiting the Cadbury Factory counts, hah.).
After class, I had time for lunch and ran to the library for a friend to find some books. The books she needed were unavailable so that was basically a waste of time for me. Oh well. I had the always, intriguing and engaging Internship Module. Not. Tuesday it was pretty painless though because the Prof let us out 2 hours early. I enjoyed that. I think she is realizing that none of us really want to be there. I mean, we really do not care about the culture of the workplace or about memorizing vocubulary an office functions. It's not even terms that actual, real people use. I have never once heard someone describe their office as a "solidarity" or "fragmented" or "Mercenary" culture. And yes, I had to get out the handouts from class just to prove this point. It's not relevant to 20 year olds. She's getting the point and is helping us to understand what is mandatory for us to "know" for the final paper in order to pass the class.
After class, a friend, MJ and I were going to go shopping on Oxford Street. It was however raining and she changed her mind. That was ok. I kind of wanted to sleep anyway. We got out of class early but the Metropolitan tube line was broken so it took us twice as long to get home. Yay TFL (Travel for London).
My friend Elizabeth rented a movie from the library. We wanted to watch Love Actually since it takes place in London but our school's Library doesn't have it. We watched "Bridget Jones' Diary" which also takes place in London. It was cool getting to see the major tourist parts of the city and actually know where they were and what they were like in real life. Pretty cool, actually. I think that is one of the best parts about visiting cities. At least for me, it's pretty amazing to see sights you recognize from movies, textbooks, novels, the news, etc. and realize you are experiencing a world famous site.
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Wednesay was a pretty routine day; I worked at the office until 5:30pm. The other intern, Colleen was in the office so that was nice to eat lunch together and spend more time with her. I worked on editing the brief for the Chairman's Club meeting that is happening next Thursday. I also edited my work on the October London 2012 Update newsletter. My two bosses proofread it and my head boss, Janet had a few changes. I also added pictures to the newsletter. At the end of the day, I was given another 50 companies to research. I was less than thrilled. I get the feeling this project is endless. I'll just have to deal I guess.
I came straight home from work and just relaxed. Nothing really exciting for Wednesday.
Thursday 28 October 2010
DesignComm in the morning and early afternoon. Colin, (our teacher) didn't prepare a lecture so we got to leave an hour early. We finally turned in our tracing letters project. Big whoop. Glad to at least have that under my belt. It will be pretty cool to see the other designs in my class, especially because we haven't worked on it for a couple weeks. It will be like fresh eyes when we look at them in class.
After class, I headed to the library to print my boarding passes for this weekend. For some reason, one of my boarding passes printed and said I was an EU citizen. Of course, I FREAKED out. I called Ryanair and they sorted it all out. It was pretty painless, but I just had a guy feeling they were going to somehow charge me for this mistake. Ryanair is known for charging for RIDICULOUS things since the flights are so cheap. I booked my flight to Poland in Decemeber for under 10 pounds plus taxes. They charge like 20 pounds for each kg your checked bag is over the weight limit. I'm not checking a bag so I won't have to deal with that nonsense. Anyway, my boarding pass is fine now. Everything's a go!
I went to the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising this afternoon. We have to go sometime before our class on Tuesday in two weeks. I knew next week is going to be very busy since I will be gone until Wednesday in Spain. The museum is near Notting Hill, which is an absolutely gorgeous area. It's a mostly residential area on the Northside of London in the buroush of Kensington and Chelsea. Bascially, that means it's a quite upscale area of London inhabited by wealthy families and middle aged to upper couples. I really enjoyed the museum. Of course, I like all of that type of thing though. We filled out a worksheet for class. I was slightly annoyed that we had to do that, but once I got into it, it actually helped keep my focus on track throughout the museum.
This place wasn't what Americans typically think of a museum. It was one floor and mostly made up of a few hallways. It took me a little over an hour to walk through. Imagine display windows, completely full of packages of products, posters, action figures and other miscellaneous items. As you can guess, most of the brands were ones that were/are heavily advertised in the UK. It wasn't like an American museum where each exhibit is clearly outlined. Each display case was jammed full of paraphernalia. You could not see the background of the display case in any of them. I had to trian my eye to only look at certain parts at once because it was so much information to take in.
Below is some photos from Notting Hill and the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising.
Soo much to look at inside the museum!
For my creative writing class that meets on Fridays, we had to write about a place for this week's assignment. I did mine today in Notting Hill. This was pretty neat because I got to sit and just absorb the place I was in. I wrote about the looks, smells, sounds, what kinds of people live there, colors, unwritten rules of Notting Hill like no loud noises or swearing, no speeding. We had a list of questions to answer and think about.
I will have to visit Notting Hill again on a nice day. I really just loved walking around. On the way back to the tube I stopped at a bunch of cute clothing boutiques. At store, I kept thinking, "I really wish Stephanie was here to shop with me". You would have loved it Steph!
Tomorrow I am headed to Portugal and Monday I will fly to Spain to meet a friend from Butler who is studying there this semester. I will update the blog after I have safely landed in each city. I probably won't actually be able to update it until I return to London on Wednesday though.
I'm so excited about this weekend! It's going to be a good on!
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