A Spoonful of Sugar :-)
I don't think i've been this busy at sc ever. We're going nonstop all day every day! today we had two more venue visits. in the morning we went to ITN (the Independent Television News) which directly competes with the BBC for news broadcasting in the UK. The presentation was really fascinating. We toured the news room and the studio and got to see the anchors prepping and rehearsing for the lunchtime news. I'd never been in a real news studio before so that was definitely cool. We met with the managing editor of ITN and he talked with us about what they do, how their business is changing and how it compares with the US. Like most of the people we met with, he was incredibly open with us and seemed actually interested in what we had to say.
After ITN we met with Peter Walker, a senior partner at Pielle Consulting (a global PR firm). His firm was much different than MS&L who we met with the other day. It was a much smaller organization that dealt with much bigger clients, namely entire countries. Pielle is currently working with Nigeria to improve its international image. He talked about the challeneges facing the country and the importance of internal perceptions of the country and how they affect global perceptions. Very interesting.
After the two presentations we were free for the day! Yay! I went with a bunch of people in the group to see a musical...Marry Poppins (hence this blog's title :-)). The show was fantastic! I love musicals in general but this one was amazing...great dancing, singing and of course I grew up watching the Julie Andrews movie over and over again so it brought back great memories. By the way, I forgot to mention that it was finally nice outside today!!!! No rain and even some sun and it even warmed up a bit! Definitely put everyone in a good mood and it was great to see the streets filled with people other than tourists.
Tomorrow we are meeting with the BBC (yay!) and then we have a party being thrown for us by a USC alum who apparently married a very wealthy British man and always throughs the ICS students a "Welcome to Europe Party". Should be fun :-) Anyway we don't have to meet until 12:30 tomorrow (such a nice change from 8am!) so that's exciting. However, I have some errands to run (like getting a stupid shop to take back a credit card charge it gave me because it decided to charge me TWICE for a coat I bought...not fun) so I will be getting up early anyway. I'm praying it doesn't rain tomorrow and I can enjoy one more day of sunshine! Think good thoughts :-)
After ITN we met with Peter Walker, a senior partner at Pielle Consulting (a global PR firm). His firm was much different than MS&L who we met with the other day. It was a much smaller organization that dealt with much bigger clients, namely entire countries. Pielle is currently working with Nigeria to improve its international image. He talked about the challeneges facing the country and the importance of internal perceptions of the country and how they affect global perceptions. Very interesting.
After the two presentations we were free for the day! Yay! I went with a bunch of people in the group to see a musical...Marry Poppins (hence this blog's title :-)). The show was fantastic! I love musicals in general but this one was amazing...great dancing, singing and of course I grew up watching the Julie Andrews movie over and over again so it brought back great memories. By the way, I forgot to mention that it was finally nice outside today!!!! No rain and even some sun and it even warmed up a bit! Definitely put everyone in a good mood and it was great to see the streets filled with people other than tourists.
Tomorrow we are meeting with the BBC (yay!) and then we have a party being thrown for us by a USC alum who apparently married a very wealthy British man and always throughs the ICS students a "Welcome to Europe Party". Should be fun :-) Anyway we don't have to meet until 12:30 tomorrow (such a nice change from 8am!) so that's exciting. However, I have some errands to run (like getting a stupid shop to take back a credit card charge it gave me because it decided to charge me TWICE for a coat I bought...not fun) so I will be getting up early anyway. I'm praying it doesn't rain tomorrow and I can enjoy one more day of sunshine! Think good thoughts :-)
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