Internship in London: Day two

Wow, two days in a row posting on my blog. This must a record or somethin.

The title is "Day 2" but it should actually be "Day 1" because it was the first day of the internship, but you guys are not that perfeccionist, right? So who cares.

Anyway, so as I said, today was my first day at Forever Sports. I decided to get there early, like I always do, but my most adventorous side decided to take a different route from the one I knew. I didn't get very lost, but that delayed me a little bit. And to be honest, those are the type of things that always make me leave a bit earlier than I should...
It was a bit disappointing to see that it wasn't sunny anymore, and that the sky was grey and cloudy... but oh well. So I took the bus to work, everything fine, but when I got off the bus, where to go? So in my old habit of talking to anyone and making friends, I asked a random girl who also got off the bus at the same stop as me. And she was heading the same way! So she walked me there and we chatted a little bit, the typical talk: where are you from, what are you doing here, bla, bla, bla...

By the way, I haven't said this before, but Forever sports belongs to a media company called Haymarket Media. They also publish many other magazines, most of them very niche. Like medical and economy stuff. So even if we were going to the same place, we were not necessarily working together.

So I get there, talk to the recepcionist, sit and wait, because like I said, I was early... and see the cafeteria. BEWARE! Cafe latte for 1.50, AND MUFFINS FOR THE SAME PRICE!! Didn't even want to get closer to them, because I knew it would hard to resist and it was not cheat day! But Thursday, defenitely.
Then I was picked up and taken to what would be my computer for the day (and I guess the rest of the week) and people were introduced to me. So many that I remember very few. Then a second young girl arrives and sits on the desk next to me, and she was also introduced to everyone. The editor, James and talks to us, and asks me what I'm studying and what courses were in my degree. I really had no idea what I wanted to do while working there, but I expected myself to work a bit with content and design? But I must have a very obvious social-media-expert face because that's the job I was assigned... I asked if I could also come up with some ideas for content for their tumblr and they said yes, so that's basically what I'm doing! Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. 
First 3h for both of us, the new girls, were like "find something you can work with" but without being very specific so I could do very little... Then we went on our lunch break and I started talking with this girl, whose name is Jade. Because, like I say, apparently it's very easy for me to approach strangers and be friends with people. So I started the typical conversation again: what do you do, what have you studied, what are you from, bla, bla, bla... and had lunch together. Honestly, I can try to begin a conversation like that, but it's very hard to keep pushing the person to carry on the conversation, so at some point I decided to go out for a walk around the area.

Because that's something I have also found out about myself: I'm not done for these office jobs. Oh, god, where is all my energy going to? NOWHERE! I can't be sat down for 8h a day, it kills me! I need action, activity, movement! Or maybe because it was the first day and everything was rather undefined... But that doesn't happen in HMV. You just walk around, back and forth, up the stairs and down, and stand next to the tills... and talk to people. There's a lot more interaction and movement. But I guess that's something I'll have to get used to!

The thing is that after the lunch break I had a short meeting with James and talked about what I would be doing for the week, which is basically what I mentioned before, but I showed him some ideas that came up while I was doing some "research" in the morning. He approved, and I started doing it... and then, it was time to go!

I left, a bit disappointed because I DIDN'T GET TO MEET THE BODYCOACH! Hahahaha. Maybe some other day... hopefully! But here's the funny part: took the right bus... on the wrong direction. LOL. I realised after 2 or 3 stops, so I got off and took the same bus on the opposite direction. I got to my hotel area and there are several supermarkets around, and like Alangrangers know, the "reductions" are taken out at 6ish. It was long past 6 so I went to Tesco and Sainsbury's to check and buy my lunch for tomorrow... that's the sad life of the student: food bought in the "reduced to clear" section!

When I got to the hotel, I still felt a bit too hyper so I went out for a jog. It had been grey and cloudy all day, but no even drizzle. UNTIL THE VERY RIGHT MOMENT I STEP OUT FOR A RUN. Of course. Typical. Regardless that annoying fact, I left for my workout, and then got back to the hotel, took a shower and ate my cous-cous and feta salad. Very healthy.

In the meantime, Alangrangers were organising a plan for this evening, they were considering to go to the Settle Inn for the open mic night. Kevin played the mandola last week, and a girl called Judith sang along with him. I hope he doesn't perform tonight, I'd hate missing it! I must confess there's a bit of mixed feelings there, because even though I'm "glad" to miss it because I got this opportunity, but at the same time, I wouldn't mind go out and socialise. This place is so greeeaaaat! And I have to enjoy it alone. Oh well, tough life.

But right now I'm leaving you, my loyal audience, to go watch Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I. Because it's on tv I have nothing better to do. #teamjacob forever!