A couple fun experiences

I got my internship!!!

I interviewed yesterday at the Royal Academy of Arts and the head of marketing offered me an internship in the press department. It seems like I'll have a lot of responsibilities and it wont just be busy work. I'll be creating headlines, writing press statements, interviewing people, and yes, probably stuffing envelopes. But I'm really excited and today I went in after class to attend a press day at the academy just to see how it worked. It didn't seem that confusing and everyone seems really nice. I sat with two women most the time and we talked a lot and I think I'm really going to like it there. I'm already happy that I'm meeting actual Londoners and putting myself deeper into British society.

I also had my first class today which was also a success! The class was 300 Years of British Women's History and even though it was a two and a half hour class (it only meets once a week) I enjoyed every minute. The classes here don't seem too hard and it will be a relief to sit back and enjoy my classes rather than worry about all the work like at Davidson. I'm actually excited to start writing my history research paper. We have so many resources at our fingertips and I can tell I'll enjoy learning here a lot more than I have anywhere else. For my history class we really only have one writing assignment, which counts for a lot. But we can pick any aspect of British women in the past 300 years and study it. We have class trips to the Women's Library, the National Portrait Gallery, and to Ieper, Belgium where we'll study WWI. I have a lot of ideas about things to write about but I'm having a hard time choosing. I think what I'll do is head down to the Victoria and Albert Museum and look at all the women's clothing they have there because I'm considering writing about the evolution of women's fashion. Totally girly, I know, but I think it will be really interesting. And speaking of girly, there are two guys in the class which surprised me, but they seem to be taking it really seriously which is refreshing.

The other fun thing that's happened is yesterday I got a bunch of girls to walk with me to Big Ben and the Parliament building, which is about 45 minutes away. We also ended up accidentally seeing Westminster Abbey, St. James Park, and Buckingham Palace, which we saw by night and I highly recommend it! I've been walking around so much and seeing things because I haven't really had money for transportation and museums and such, so this is pretty comfortable for me now and I'm happy I got some other people to enjoy it too. By the time we got back we were exhausted but I felt like I got a lot done that day and now I'm just looking forward to tomorrow!