I was so excited slash nervous for my interview. I decided to leave an hour before my internship and I’m so glad because the tube took about 45 minutes. I did get to go through King’s Cross station (9 and ¾ anyone??) but I didn’t get to see the very famous Harry Potter landmark.
When I got there, I was very lost. Camden Market was across the street from the Associated Press building, but it was very confusing trying to find the building. There was definitely no Oval Road and the Interchange was basically a big steel gate that I slipped through out of chance. There were stairs and I thought that maybe at the top the building I saw was it.
Thankfully, it was. I was about 15 minutes early, but still, I was flustered. I had to have a visitor’s card and all of the employees had swipe cards to access the rest of the building.
My supervisor came down and led me up to the third floor where the sports department was. I didn’t realize that the Associated Press owned the entire building, but it does. The way that the floor was set up was really nice because it had an open floor plan. Though the floor itself was huge, you were able to feel connected with everyone around you. I was introduced to the few sport people that were there. It was a fairly slow day, so one of them showed me the program that they used and also the rest of the office. I also saw the other departments and the TV portion. I didn’t know that AP has it’s own TV station, but I’m definitely going to get involved with that too.
I thought that I was coming in for just an interview, but apparently, they didn’t think so. I stayed until about 5:30, but I didn’t do much. I was able to write a brief about how the Queen is going to come to Wimbledon. Unfortunately, it wasn’t published because it had already gone to the press the night before.
When I left, Camden Market was starting to close down. It looked really interesting, so hopefully I’ll be able to come back.
The group decided that we wanted to explore the town. One person in our group heard of a place called Walkabout, so we decided to check it out. Needless to say, I think that everyone that came had a blast.
'Til tomorrow.
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