Adam Worling, Week One

This past week, I started my internship at Adam Worling PR. After a miscommunication with CAPA and Adam Worling PR that sent me on an hour and a half rush across the city, the start wasn't fantastic, but became amazing towards the end of the week.

The firm recently moved, which led to the miscommunication. Anyway, the new showroom is located right near central station, which is convenient and within walking distance (40 minute walk, but sometimes that's faster than taking the bus). There are two people who run the company (Adam Worling himself, and a woman named Jenny), two girls who pull all the garments to send to magazines/work with stylists (Alicia and Emily), two people who work to ship/receive garments (Paul and Kris(tina)) and then a secretary (Carla). Then there's Gracie, who is Adam Worling's boxer puppy who is absolutely adorable. Currently, I've been working very closely with Paul and Kris in the shipping and receiving end of everything, but since the office is all an open floor plan and I work a mere 30 feet from Alicia/Emily/Adam, I overhear quite a bit. It sounds like next week I'll be starting to write press releases for the new lines, which is exciting! I'm really enjoying this internship so far, and the days really fly by while I'm there.

This week at Anna Ro, I learned how to hand-stitch a tie and a cravat. Apparently Australian men typically wear cravats instead of neckties to weddings. Cravats really aren't big in the states, and I don't think I've honestly ever seen someone wearing one (even when I used to work at The Men's Wearhouse). It was still interesting, and Anna let me keep my work for keepsake! My tie looks like a four year old made it, but alas, I'm learning! Hand stitching a tie is much more difficult than it looks.

Like last week, I wasn't able to do very much this week after work. I tried to find an American hamburger on Tuesday, but it just wasn't happening. I didn't realize that beets came standard on hamburgers. And instead of using American cheese (obviously they don't have that here), they use something called tasty cheese. While it's rather good cheese, it doesn't taste the same as American cheese and thus, hamburgers (cheeseburgers) don't taste the same. Oh well. I'll be home in four weeks and can eat all the hamburgers I want then (the first visit of the road trip is in n' out)!

Friday night was the first SRC organized event, which was Australian movie night! We showed Strictly Ballroom and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. There was a game of trivia between the two movies and we ordered pizza. I'd say roughly 50 people turned out, but nobody felt like staying for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, so we never ended up showing it. I was actually quite thrilled about this because it hadn't occurred to me how much of a pain in the butt getting home from North Sydney at 10pm was going to be. Buses supposedly stop running around 11:30pm, and since the timetables really mean nothing, the bus stops running when it wants to stop running.

Tomorrow we head to Olympic Park and the Blue Mountains. Not really sure what to expect, so it should be an interesting day.