Schools out...

School is officially done… well at least until July 19^th. I still have not registered for classes yet so we will see how that goes for me. The fashion show went really well and the reviews were all very positive so this should bump my school up in the fashion world. The day of the show I had to wake up at 5:30 and got to the show’s venue at around 9 am.

(The Venue: One Marylebone)

Once inside Kelsey (my roommate) and I did some stuff to help out the Fashion Marketing Exhibition area of the show. Basically what happens at the show is there is a fashion show for the design students but there is also a hub exhibition, which is where all the marketing kids show their work. I will explain this more when I get to this area in school and it isn’t that far away. At 10 I had to go backstage and get briefed on being a dresser. Being a dresser is really fun/hectic/nerve wracking/exciting. The whole show kind of relies on you because if the model isn’t dressed she can’t walk or if she has the wrong outfit on the whole show will be set up wrong. It is really fast paced but it is a lot of fun and it was a great experience. I am hoping to volunteer to dress for London Fashion Week this fall but we will see. Instead of just putting up tons of pictures of the show I figured I’d show you the video. If you have a half hour it is a really good show. The model that I dressed is the red-haired one.

www.aiulondonfashioncollections.com

This upcoming week is going to be full of cleaning the house, getting everything ready for Rob to come home.

The time has come...

School is winding down and I actually have time to work on this again. I promised you once school was done I’d be back and I am. Technically school isn’t done, I still have one more class and then the school’s fashion show/exhibition which I am attending for the first time ever because I am putting it on. My job for the day will be a dresser but I will talk about that after it happens and I can actually tell you how it went and hopefully I will have some pictures from the very long day that it is going to be.

So as for my classes, things were pretty slow the first half of the term. I felt like I had no homework and it was just crawling along. Then week 5 hit, all of a sudden things were due in a few weeks and things started getting busy which is good for me right now. I need it to be busy to stay sane while Rob isn’t here. All the lounging that I love to do just makes the days crawl. So back to school, week 5 is our midterm and we never have midterms, we occasionally have a presentation to do or something but they aren’t the horrendous midterm exams that most US colleges have. This could be either because it is a specialty school or because it is in the UK. I am sure it is a little of both. The one class I was really excited to take which is Fashion Events has kind of turned out to be a bust. I wish I wouldn’t have taken it the first term it was brought to the school but the next time it is offered it will be my turn to have my stuff shown at the exhibition, so this was my only chance. This class has tested my patience every step of the way. What was initially supposed to happen is that we were going to put on an Alumni event and help with the exhibition. Well there are a total of 20-fashion alumni still living in London so we were expecting about half of them to show. This event would have been miserable and a huge failure. They cancelled it and now put the Alumni party with the fashion show, which is much better. There will be tons of industry people there and everyone will be able to see the work the current students are doing and bump shoulders with some potential employers. There was an opportunity to work with a PR company for this event and I got screwed out of doing it. Every time I leave class I want to punch things and I am not a violent person but it tests me. My other two classes are amazing, I love my teachers and the classes are just so much fun. I do have a group project in one of them and I hate my group. The girls in it are study abroad and have no idea what they are doing and yet try to push me around, I finally just stood up and took control of the group because I am not going to risk my grade because they don’t want to ask for help or admit that they don’t understand what the teacher wants. This term I have also helped on a professional photo shoot and it was so much fun and I met some really good contacts.

(Me working behind the scenes)

(The whole group that made the photo shoot happen)

(One of the models getting touched-up by the make-up artist)

As most of you know I have acquired a roommate and that is going really well, it is nice to have someone around while Rob is gone. We have started going to yoga together on base, so I get to see all my friends from base more often, which is really nice because they all know what it is like to go through what I am. Yoga is so much fun and I have a love/hate relationship with the instructor but I feel like that is how it should be with trainers and exercise instructors. I hate her during the class when she is making me do tons of stuff but at the same time I love her for pushing me and I actually want to do it well so it is nice. She is one of those instructors that when counting time down she will go 7 6 5 4 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. She only does this a few times but its always a fun class. She also will push us harder when there are more guys in the class. And yes there are tons of guys doing yoga right now, but who wouldn’t when they are in a room full of women in spandex.

Some of Steve’s friends were here recently and I met up with them for a night in London. It was a lot of fun to hang out with some people from the states in my new home.