The Big Day!

DAY 13

I got out of the house this day to see my friend. That was nice. I was really excited when I woke up in the morning, knowing that tomorrow was the big day. Although I kept getting more and more surprisingly nervous. Like sick to my stomach nervous. I could not sleep at all that night. I think I got 4 hours of sleep. I was just so nervous, I don't know why, it was like my first day of school all over again or something.

DAY 14

Ah, the first day at Anthropologie!

I got up around 6am, when I fell asleep at 2. That was a blast, let me tell you. Then Rob and I made the long trek to Philadelphia. I think it took about an hour and a half to two hours to get there. Annoying. But it was okay.

We actually got to the building early (for me anyway), at around 8:30am. I wasn't suppossed to meet with someone til 9. So, I waited around with Rob for a little bit. Then at 9, I went down to the lobby to wait some more. Long story short, I never ended up meeting the hr person to fill out paper work til 9:30. Then, the visual department, whom I'm suppossed to be working with had a meeting until 10:30, so I waited in the cafe type area they have at Urban. I really like that place, it is so sunny and warm, with lot's of yummy food, fish ponds, and it's beautifully decorated.

Finally I met up with my mentor, Kelly. She gave me a tour and introduced people who I had not met the last time I was in the office. She gave me a little tour. Then she gave me some work to do which was put together some "holiday inspiration" books, a book for visual managers for in store and make copies. And rearrange the library. None of it was bad at all. Ia ctually got done really quick, which made me want to purposely slow down on my next task but they still said wow that was quick! But it was fun.

The Holiday inspiration books were basically just books with images on them that the team pulled that they felt inspired by. I really couldnt think of anything more fun to do, I mean, I do that kind of thing on my own all the time- I am always ripping pages from magazines and making them into something. I can't believe they actually get to do some of that for a living!

Overall, it was a good day. A little tired, but it was a good experience. Oh! And a blizzard is coming so I don't have to go in tomorrow! Woo!