Always listen to your mother, because she is always
right. Always. Before I left, my mom told
me that I will stumble across so much history in England purely by accident,
and of course that is exactly what happened today.
After
my interview the other day, I was sent on my first assignment. Quintana Couture has a deal with a high
class dry cleaners where they display the designs in their store windows for
exposure. My assignment was to go
around to all these dry cleaners and then write a little report about how to
improve the display in each area in order to get more potential clients to
call. WELL, I was headed to my
third and final location. Some way
or another, I misunderstood my own directions and ended up stumbling across a
place I hadn’t even thought of to visit while in London. I came across a crosswalk on a street
and all these people were photographing it. Then the light bulb came on when I realized I was at the Abbey Road crosswalk. You know the one from the Abbey Road Album. Anyway, as I walked down the street a little
bit more I found saw the Abbey Road Studio. I couldn’t believe that by simply getting turned around, I
happened across a piece of music history.
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| Abbey Road Crosswalk from the wrong angle |
This
little incident has just made me so excited to explore more of England. Honestly, I do not even care if I leave
the island during my semester.
There is just so much to discover here. Every town and village has it’s own story and history. I could spend years in England and
still not see everything I want to see.
So far I’ve gotten this feeling that as soon as everyone arrived to the
country, everyone was making plans to leave it again. Even though we are so close to all these amazing nations,
there is so much right on your doorstep that you shouldn’t want to miss. Honestly, I would rather use my money to see shows and concerts than go to Paris and deal with more stress from traveling.
Anyways,
I guess I should note that my internship interview went very well and I will be
doing marketing for Quintana Couture, which is a newer designer in the greater
London area. He has already
designed for a few celebrities but now he is trying to grow his client base. So I will be helping with that. Today was my first official day and I really think I will enjoy working there. It's a very small company in a very small studio but everyone is very nice and collaborative. Since it is so small, I can tell I will learn a lot. Every step of this process from designing to marketing is right in front of me, so hopefully this will be an educational experience.
Well,
that’s all I really wanted to write about today, but hopefully soon I will have
more adventures to share.
Cheers,
Janelle
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