Sorry, I've been super busy lately, which is why I haven't been posting at all.

Today, I'm going to tell you about my work experience at NME. I'm not doing it to brag because that's not what I'm about at all, I'm doing it for everyone out there that has this coming up and wants to know what happens, because I know that before I started I wanted to know exactly what I'd be doing, what it looked like, everything.
   So before I turned up at blue fin building - which, by the way is super beautiful and modern and huge - I was super nervous, I was wearing a skirt a blouse and blazer, thinking everyone would be in office uniform. That was one of the biggest mistakes I made, everyone in the NME office was pretty much wearing casual. A mistake I will not make again tomorrow! When I met Karen (the editor's PA) I was pleasantly surprised, she's absolutely lovely, really helpful and friendly and very approachable. She gave us a tour of the office and gave us some handy information about the company, IPC media and how it's gone global.
   From here, she showed us to our desks, (I should explain that there are three of us doing work experience, one of the girls this is her fourth time, and then me and another girl it's our first time) gave us a run down of what we'd be doing throughout the week and throughout the day. It took a lot longer than we thought to go through all of the health and safety, but after that we got through the mail. What I mean by sorting the mail is that there are sacks and sacks of mail to go to all of the editors in the office and you have to sort the mail for each editor and personally go and give it to them. We got through this a lot quicker than Karen thought we would, so after doing that we cleared our desk. Then went for lunch.
   After we came back from lunch we honestly didn't know what to do, we weren't approached by Karen or any of the editors to give us jobs so we sat around for a bit and familiarized ourselves with the office a bit more. After this we went to speak to Karen about what to do next (we felt a bit weird talking to her all the time and asking her for jobs) she told us to speak to Dan Stubbs, the news features editor and see if he had anything for us. He asked us to go and look for some news articles that weren't featured on NME. We had no more le-way than that. So I found out that Foals are doing a UK tour, I noticed that NME hadn't featured that yet so I emailed Dan and he then featured it and thanked me for reminding him. While I was looking for other news stories another editor came up to us and asked us to re-type these Joy Division album reviews from the 1980's, it was so strange to read because I was thinking how these were written before Ian Curtis had died and it was really fascinating to read and re-type. This took up the rest of our day and before we knew it, it was time to go home.
    I am really looking forward to tomorrow!