Internship: Week 7

This week has been extremely eventful.  I got the full wrath of English transportation on Tuesday and spend the weekend in Dublin (teaser).

Monday started out like all the others, up early, off to work.  I did a lot of work on the tdg Twitter page and got us some new followers and solid RTs (retweets for you newbies out there).  I also started a strategic plan for a client that I will turn in next week.  Suni and I ate lunch at the Clerkenwell Kitchen where I enjoyed my first fish cake.  Monday was just a good ol' day in London.  I spent most of my night trying to find people to go to Birmingham with me the next day.  Patrick is still out of town and Suni had a meeting pop up, so she had two train tickets to the Food & Drink Expo on Tuesday.  Suni said I could bring a friend if I could wrangle one.

Cue Tuesday.  I woke up so I could meet Suni at Euston train station.  She had to get my tickets and then pick up someone for her meeting.  I had about an hour to wait before my train left, so I wandered around the train station trying to find a coffee place that would make me a frappe.  Costa Coffee would, but it was creamier than my preference, altogether not bad though.  The train takes about an hour and a half to get to Birmingham, and the genius that I am, forgot to bring some form of entertainment.  The Expo was right by the train station in Birmingham so I didn't have to navigate anything.  I wandered around, took lots of pictures and sampled a bunch of foods.  Everyone wants to know where I am from and what I am doing here, which gets a little old, but I understand their curiosity.  I wonder sometimes if I should just try my British accent out on the natives to see if they can tell.  They probably would be able to tell and then I would be incredibly embarrassed.  More to the point, the Expo was fun but I was out of there at 1 PM with feet aching because I wore healed boots and hadn't sat since the train.

desert sushi is one of the delicacies I saw

These were some fun kids drinks.  They made me smile.

My train back to London didn't leave until four, so I bought some train tickets into Birmingham's city centre hoping to find the Cadbury World.  Apparently I didn't do enough research because Cadbury World isn't located in the city center, it's located on the city outskirts, and I found this out from a mall booth salesman.  He seriously walked past 20 people through a crowd to get to me.  Do I look gullible enough to buy just anything?  I should put my mean face on more often.  I shopped for a while in the Bullring shopping center and surrounding markets and then I went back to the train station.  This started the journey from hell.

First things first, the train my ticket was for, couldn't leave because of signaling failure, so I had to take a different completely packed train.  That train took 1 hour and a half to get 2 stops outside of the town.  From there we had to get off and take another train in London.  To sum it up, my 90 minutes train ride turned into a 3 hour debacle that was topped off my a huge mass of people at Euston Station and a fire scare.  I knew it was a fire because the sirens and loud speakers all blared, "Will Inspector Sands please report to the information desk" Sands is an old theatre code for "Fire."  I was in a right fowl mood by the time I got back.  I listened to some music and calmed down before hitting the hay.

Wednesday was the usual.  We got our take-home midterms in advertising.  Not really excited to complete that, but it will get done.  Art was held at the V & A museum and we learned about decorative arts.  Only one more set of classes before Spring Break!  Really excited about it!

Thursday begins my journey to Dublin so I will dedicate a post to that.

Pip Pip Cheerio!