I Love My Internship!!!

After two days of working at MSN UK, I can officially say that my internship rocks! All the people who work there are really nice, helpful and friendly. I definitely think I will have a lot of great opportunities working there over the next three months. They do a really great job of making us feel like real employees as opposed to interns. I can honestly say that one of my greatest fears was that all I would do at my internship was make coffee and pick up my supervisor's dry cleaning. They seem really willing to listen and consider our ideas. Also while I have only worked there for two days, I can already tell that they will be more than willing to give me and the other interns bigger stories and projects to work on. Also, I was excited to find out that MSN was the number one news website in the United Kingdom. They get over 4 million views to their home page everyday. Pretty cool!

In addition, I really like the work environment. For one, there are no cubicles, which is a big relief. The newsroom is one giant room with the desks facing one another. All the people there are laid-back and nice. I am glad that I finally get to meet and hang out with British people, considering the only people I have been hanging out with for the past two weeks is college students from my program.

Besides my internship, I went to Stonehenge and Bath on Wednesday. At first, I was a little reluctant to go to Stonehenge. I thought what's so exciting about giant stones? But, my initial reaction was wrong. Stonehenge was neat, particularly when you think about how people got the stones there and arranged them in such a specific way without modern tools and technology. Those rocks are seriously heavy. Bath, a small city about an hour away from Stonehenge, was my favorite part of the day. The architecture in the city of Bath was cute and quaint. All the buildings were made of a light-colored limestone rocks. Our tour guide told us that Bath looks a lot like Edinburgh. I have never been to Scotland so for now I'll take his word on that! By far, my favorite part of Bath was a tour of the Roman baths that were located there in ancient times. Most of you know that I took Latin for six years and that I was the Roman historian for my school's Certamen team. So actually getting to see Roman baths that I have only read and seen pictures about it in books was really neat. The Romans were attracted to Bath in part because the only hot spring in England is located there. Seeing the excavations at Bath was beyond cool.