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My summary of interning at Village

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Day 41- Week Eight!!! 

 GoodBye VILLAGE

A farewell ? I think so........well it’s come to the end  and it was a great experience! Today was a very relaxed day, I was able to film some last footage for my Vlog and I spent some time with Monet and Fiyl, two people who were there for my interview at Village. I started and ended with them.

P.S...... The PR team were ever so kind and signed off a Thank you card :)

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Day 40 -Week Eight

It’s Laura and Lucy’s last day because Village has still not paid us, EYYYYYYYYY. hahahahaha

Today consisted of steaming clothes with Laura and boxing them up to send off!! We ended the night with Prosecco and a nice chin wag with everyone. Feels like home.

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Day 39- Week Eight

A bunch of returns. 

As it comes closer to the end of the week, I really begin to feel happy to have been in this experience but sad to leave behind some great bonds made. I feel that Me and Laura really got on with Monet and built this work relationship along side a friendship that worked well together. The Haribo ring girls will not end here, I promise!

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Day 38- Week Eight

Photographing some shirts to send was the highlight of today and I steamed and packed them away for gifting. Also adding , I was able to do some returns and prepare breakfast for a morning meeting.

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Day 37- Week eight!! 

 A clear out day & beginning of the last week at village :(

Today consisted of cleaning the whiteboards and returning returns!! Helping to clear out the boxes, we found ourselves working in a team to pack up any returned boxes and going down to the charity shop to leave some bits behind.

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Day 36- Week Seven

One last trip to storage and carrying around the “dead body” box hahahaha

Me, Monet and Lucy celebrate the last storage trip .......yupieeee!!! spending the whole morning cleaning out the last boxes we finally get to gripes of cleaning it all out and bringing it down to the company. This big black suitcase had to be pulled down with me back because it was too big to go inside the van! hahaha off I go

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Day 35- Week Seven 

Returns , Amans birthday and a trip to Finsbury Park!!!!

Let’s just say that I do not like NORTH LONDON AT ALL! , off I went in the morning to drop off samples for a stylist (whom which i thought lived in a very fancy place but turns out it was a flat in the middle of the blocks) who requested from Village. Continued with my returns in the morning and then celebrated the Birthday of Aman (one of the girls from the PR team). 

Was very excited for that chocolate cake and prosecco  

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Day 34- Week Seven

OMG THE STORAGE TRIP OF MY LIFE!!!

So...... where to begin, let’s just say that storage is not for everyone! It began with three of us and ended with two! Me. Laura and Monet went out in the afternoon in hope of doing everything in 3 hours ......WRONG!!! it was more than that. Some of the boxes were destroyed and bitten by mice which was not pleasant and very heavy to transport out. With Laura living the furthest she had to go earlier to catch her train with Lucy, this then led to me and Monet to figure how we were going to transport 30 boxes together!!

After calling 5 Addison Lee’s, we finally got a van who transported all the boxes and left them outside the company, me and Monet then took each down and left them in to sort out the next day, we left at 8:30!!!!! great

When doing this with Monet, I then began to realise that this was probably not the role for me as I saw all the effort she had gone through the whole day for no one in PR to care, the founders of Village gave her a thank you and that’s it. This really showed me that no matter how much you try , if something is done it’s done but if it wasn’t done then there would have been a problem......why not give a little more recognition sometimes?? for someone who completed a Masters, I believe that Monet is worth a lot more and that she should find something else soon because her worth is not being met.

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Day 33- Week seven

Today was very chilled, started the day with collecting some Palmer Harding gifting and then finished off the day with returns and steaming, not much fun!

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Day 32- Week seven

A chilled day at Village really helped me think about my next steps at Uni and plan for my essay and video vlog. I spent the morning cleaning  the front office and making a trip down to the co-op for some toilet roll and milk!!

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Day 31- Week six A day of being a runner

The day was very much activated, I went off to return and drop off clothing for influencers and stylists, I was pretty much out the whole day, coming in and out of tubes and buses, WOOOOO TO EXERCISE 

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Day 30- Week Six 

 Picking up four bags and walking back!!!! I was very angry!, I was asked by one of the girls from the PR team to pick up a return in Hackney, fair enough , I had gone before to pick up returns, I didn't think anything of it. Little did I know it was four massive heavy bags that I was unable to carry alone!! I was fuming but took it all in and managed my way to the bus and then asked Laura to help me take them down at the bus stop back to Village.

 Plus scavenging for cardboard boxes to pack clothes was very fun I tell you hahaha

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Day 29- Week Six

Preparing for meetings , putting away clothes and sorting the showroom. Welcome to today! :)

Preparing breakfasts is always eventful as we prepare it up so nicely and never get recognition, great! Continuing the day with returns and eating doughnuts, we had to spend most of our time inside the showroom office as Andy (creative director) didn't want us all outside when meetings were happening.

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Day 28- Week Six

A day in storage with eight boxes to carry!!!! My first ever trip to storage. The place of hell!!! hahahahaha

Before sprinting off to Storage, I really wanted to clean up the showroom office as all the hangers were making me itch! Being a neat freak I can’t stand certain mess and it had to be done! I then went off with Monet and Laura to clear out storage as Village had expired their time with them. Not joking with you, there were about 50+ boxes there that we were greeted with, boxes with past brands that Village had worked with and company admin papers.

It was a very heavy day I tell you!

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Day 27- Week Six

Working at Selfridges

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Day 26- Week Five

Today my day consisted of sorting out the bank statements, not being very good with numbers I was then allocated to just sort out each spending and co-ordinate the receipts with the bank statement. Simple.