Another week in the Big Apple is flying by. This week has been a day short anyway as Monday was Independence Day providing a long weekend! I went out on Monday, but unless you had looked at the calendar before you left the house, you wouldn’t have known it was the 4th of July! I was expecting crowds and celebrations and people with funny hats on – Nothing! Nowt! Nada! I also found it a bit ironic that the only person who wished me a ‘Happy July Fourth’ was one of the other international students staying in the same apartment block! I decided to go to Central Park Zoo for the day, which was nice! Although it is far too HOT!! My pale Scottish skin cannot cope with all this sun - it’s not used to it! At night however, the celebrations kicked in with numerous firework displays across the City which were rather fancy – although I did think the big red white and blue ending was a bit cheesy!
Tuesday meant back to the office. Everyone on the subway looked miserable to be going back to work – but I am loving my time at MaeVona so I was the smiling creep no one wanted to sit next to! (and proud!)
My first short film is going live on Friday on the MaeVona social networking sites, which is quite exciting! It is a short interview with one of my colleagues, but it’s cool that it is going online! I also was taking photos for an upcoming MaeVona competition and my work was put in to this month’s newsletter.
Not only am I gaining experience in filmmaking, marketing and business, I am also learning a lot about jewelry (and American spelling!). Well, they do say “diamonds are a girl’s best friend” so why not get to know them a bit better!
Currently editing a few other bits and bobs for the website and filming plans are slowly but surely coming together for other projects! Watch this space!
I met up with a fellow Saltire Intern today for lunch! Flora has come to NYC for a few days before she travels Upstate for her internship. It was great to meet up with another Intern – and hear another Scottish accent! And I believe my fellow Manhattan based New Yorker arrives this weekend too! Looking forward to that!
A lot of people have commented on my accent, and I have had a lot of Americans claiming to also be Scottish thanks to their Great Great Grandfather’s Sister’s Auntie’s Brother’s Cousin being from ‘Glass-go’. But perhaps the most unique reaction has to be that of a man in a busy Manhattan café at lunch time who asked where my ‘posh British accent’ was from…and when I replied ‘Scotland!’ I was serenaded with the one and only…”I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more…!” WITH dance moves. Needless to say, it was one of the most hysterical moments of my life. So to all the other interns heading off to the States this week – beware of The Proclaimers! We can’t escape them!
Until next time!
A.xo