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Europe + Internship

I bought tickets to Europe the other week and it was exhilarating. It was pretty impulsive but I've always wanted to go to Germany. I've always wanted to go but I was always waiting for a period of time where I didn't have uni work and I had money. Last year, all these people went to Japan and I was so jeals!! I've been really wanting to travel ASAP since. I really wanted to go during this mid year break (Aus' winter, every other countries glorious summer/spring) but AFTRS allocated this break to work placement so it was never really an option before. I was just gonna wait til the end of the year (a bunch of my aftrs mates wanted to go to Beijing, we were gonna stay with Lou and her family and I was gonna go from there to Japan straight after (but I also wanted to meet Maria in Japan but she's like really bad at saving money)) but then certain things were realised. For some reason, I was under the impression that Jess and Emily were doing their eurotrip smackbang in the middle of Sem 2 so tagging along was just not gonna happen. However, I was wrong lol, they were actually traveling right in the break :0 So really, I would've only missed the first few days of sem 2. I also didn't have enough money for a whole Europe trip like theirs and I still don't. However, Jess told me that I could just jump in somewhere within their trip, and I could afford it! I also ALSO realised that they were airbnb'ing it everywhere, so I could stay with them and they were gonna spend a whole week in Germany! When Jess told me all this, it hit me so hard that I could so go to Europe and have so much fkn fun. So the next day I went to a flight centre and booked tickets. And I was like hm, I wonder if I have anything in July. I remembered Trinh's 21st and I was like fk lol bummer, it's her 21st and everything, I'm the worst. But then of course, I remembered that I had to do 70 hrs of work placement before my next sem started and I hadn't even found one yet, right after I booked my flights.

I was sorta panicking but also putting a lot of faith in the weird notion that everything just works out for me lol I mean, not everything does really but enough to keep me afloat lol. Anyways, so I approached this company called 3rdspace and it was odd, their website was like a lot of we love creativity and supporting and producing creative content! But a lot of their work was advertising videos so I was like ??? Anyways, so it turned out a lot of their jobs were companies looking to produce ads so I guess that's that. They invited me to be a producer's assistant on the first day of a three day shoot last friday and it was nice. There's a lot to say. Here it is lol:

1. I was the producer's assistant and essentially, I had nothing to do. Gosh, how do I say all the things I wanna say nicely and succinctly. Fk.
2. Okay, let's start with Jake Heath. He's a nice guy and also the person who was leading the internship at 3rdspace. When I first met him for the interview, he mentioned how he got his foot in the door through an ex-girlfriend's relative and my thought was how did this small, awkward man get a girlfriend. Working with him at the shoot however, changed my views of him. He's not bad looking, he's actually a v adorable white man lol He's also got a witty sense of humour that I particularly like about him. He's just plain adorable, guys, ADORABLE!!! I wanna keep him in my pocket!! He also gives me his credit card for coffee runs and now I have a weird sugar daddy image of him, whoops.
3. Days have passed since I last wrote this lol I'm currently in the offices at my internship and naughtily blogging during work time ;) It's good. I'm currently supposed to be brainstorming so brb lol
4. Anyways, it's actually really nice at the office. I get to edit which is super easy. At first I was stressed about it because their paid, professional editor was just gunning through videos and I was spending my whole day with one lol But then Jake was like dw, u saving her hours of work and I'm like okay, thanks daddy :3
5. I've yet to meet the office dog. I really hope I get to meet the office dog.
6. I never really wanted to work at a company that mainly did corporate work. However, the things they do are kinda nice. They do a lot of promotion for companies that are trying to do good things to look better. And yeah, 3rdspace is getting paid lots to do it but their clients are doing rad things. I'm currently brainstorming ideas for this one thing NRMA is doing where they're sending driving instructors and providing proper lessons to the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander youth of Wagga Wagga. And the shoot at the O'Brien Lifehouse was an educational video for people who had just been diagnosed with cancer - it was about what to expect and what to do if things went wrong.
7. A small thing about the shoot at the hospital was that at one point, I had to look for someone and that meant I had to go all around the hospital. The main spots we were shooting in was an empty floor that nobody was using, offices and essentially just places that were unused for the day. That meant that I didn't see a lot of patients, not really. And so when I had to look around for that guy, I ended up going too far into one of the stations and I saw a lot of people going through chemotherapy and honestly it was kinda scary. I shouldn't have been scared but it probably comes down to the fact that my own life doesn't really encounter a lot of death (thank goodness) and so just seeing these patients far into their treatment freaked me out a little and tbh, I never expected that kind of reaction from myself.
8. I'm learning a lot on this internship too actually. During the first days which was the shoot, I was really just either observing or buying things like coffee. The thing about this internship is that I went for it because I was desperate to get my 70 hours done before Europe and so I went for anybody who would take me and I was ecstatic when Jake let me come onto 3rdspace. But, I also went in with an attitude of I'm just here to get my hours done and get out (which was pretty shitty of me in retrospect but also I was doing nothing on the shoot!!!). However, Jake really is trying his best to get me to learn. In further retrospect, he did what he could during the shoot. And he's new to this too, being in charge of an intern. On the last day, he told people to take me aside and talk about their roles which was nice. Most of them were too busy to but it was a great gesture. He's still doing it at the office which is nice too. However, I have to pay for my own coffee now :( Oh! The daddy recording the sound asked me if he had time to make a phone call before the next shoot and I did what a producer's assistant does best and told him that he'd be fine and he said thanks and winked at me, it was nice lol
9. I am in love with the flute solo in Matt Corby's Sooth Lady Wine, fk fk fk.
10. Elliott Brissenden is interning at 3rdspace now lol
11. My excitement for Europe has died down drastically :( However, as soon as my internship is done and my tonsillitis has gone and fucked itself, I'm sure that the excitement that I had at the start of this post will come back.
12. Thanks to Elliott, I've learnt that what I've been having this whole time is tonsillitis!! I just assumed these swollen lymph nodes were a cold or flu symptom so I'd always been drowning myself in OJ when I got it. I'm so mad, it keeps happening to me but appaz I can get my tonsils removed!!! Maybe I will one day.
13. I'm v worried about my Europe funds btw. 
14. After today, I'll have surpassed my 70 hrs minimum :0
15. I slept as soon as I got home because I was so fkn cold and feverish at the same time like wtf and I had a 12 hr nap. On the plus side, I didn't come into the office late for the 3rd time lol
16. I've hit a stump with the Wagga Wagga brainstorm but Jake hasn't come back yet so now I'm just blogging lol I wonder if Elliott can see this sinning.

Okay so Athens I'm not particularly excited for. I mean, I do look forward to the history but at the same time, I could easily skip dis city. However, the beaches will be rad, I'm sure, and the history stuff will be far greater than I expect. Santorini I'm v v v v v excited for because have you seen the IG photos??? It's so beautiful, it's gonna be so fkn gr8888. Idk if this is in Athens or Santorini, but there's that one beach with the very clear water and gravel instead of sand that I really want to go to. I also just can't wait for good greek seafood, ooft. And then there's Budapest. I've no idea what to expect at all. All I know is that one song by George Ezra but I mean... lol.. However, I know that the accommodation is significantly cheaper in Budapest so maybe everything else will be cheap!! Tbh idk but here's hoping lol And after Hungary, there's Berlin!!! Idk what to expect. I remember mentioning to the flight attendant that I wanted to stay there an extra week and she was like ooft no don't do that. And I was like aw why? And she said that she didn't particularly like German food and I was like oh yeah me neither!!! But after I booked my flights, I remembered that I wanted to stay there that extra week so I can live in and explore Berlin on my own for 7 days. I could check out local art scenes and be a pretentious ding dong. It was gonna be g. But ofc, I got distracted by the food. However! I'm v excited for that top shit apple strudel, yes ma'am, mmm. I'm also excited to buy clothes for myself and for my friends!!! It's a good chance to buy birthday presents lol (Trinh and Michail). My flight allows me a second piece of luggage on the way home so I shant be stingey. I'll be a lil stingey doe because of fund problems mentioned above :( Anyways, I'm done with this post. Bye.