A Day in LA

All of the interns are finally here and the internship program has officially commenced. This week Erika and Christine in HR kicked off a series of "Internship Breakfasts" that will be held every Wednesday morning. All interns (there are about 10 of us) got together, ate a delicious breakfast, were welcomed by the HR staff and watched a very inspirational movie about the amazing agency that is Chiat\Day. Afterward, we took a quick tour of the building once more to go over any aspects that had been brushed over. Each Intern Breakfast will feature a different Chiat professional and therefore a different part of the industry. TBWA\Chiat\Day really takes care of its interns. There are a very important part of the agency and it shows in the manner in which interns are embraced.

Interns eat lunch together, have meetings once a week and are encouraged to become a cohesive unit. One of the interns has already begun to make a contact sheet to facilitate intern to intern outreach. It is nice to see interns running around the agency, even though the agency is always buzzing, it just makes it even more fun.

Everyone who works on an account becomes very close - we celebrated the birthday of one of the members of the team today. All of us went out to sushi at this restaurant where you take off your shoes and sit on the floor with your legs in this big cavity underneath the table. It was great for me because I have extremely long legs and sitting cross-legged for any period of time is less than comfortable.

This week was a bit slower for me but still there was plenty to do and I had a ton of fun. I used extra time to look at industry magazines, check out nontraditional media and read about advertising Cannes winners. TBWA agencies won an incredible number of awards this year and in past years; to read all this while sitting in the very agency that won the awards is a neat feeling.