Final Week: Day 4

I can’t really remember how it started. All I know is that today Iain Stephenson will come and visit the placement to find out how the placement has been going.

It’s come back to me now. I started the day by completing the mail out for the Judy Marks books. Whilst doing this I was just reading music reviews from the weekend papers and magazines, as I need to learn the ‘music review lingo’ for some reviews I started doing for an online magazine. (The link is pasted below for now, but once I complete my internship diaries I will change some of the links on this site and it will be up.) Once I finished the mail out Ed asked me to get rid of some old newspapers. This took me a while. I can’t remember what I did after that. I may have done some filing but somehow I made it to lunch.

After lunch there was nothing for me to do so I quite literally sat around for a while. After that I did some filing for nearly an hour and then Stephenson arrived. To make a short story even ever shorter, it was extremely disappointing. He had originally said that he would talk to me and Caroline separately for 15 minutes each, before then having a conversation all three of us together. Instead he spoke to both of us together for no more than 15 minutes. This meant that if I wanted to be honest I would be ‘burning my bridges’ and probably offend the company. So I basically lied and said I really enjoyed absolutely every aspect of the internship and learned huge amounts. My ‘mentor’ Caroline summed the dialogue up adequately by saying “That was short and sweet.” (She seemed a bit nervous during the talk, as if what I chose to say would have a huge impact on her future.) The rest of the day I basically spend doing another mail out for “Iran Awakening” and left a bit early to go to University and get my exam schedule. Boring..

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