Week 5

This is my final week and it’s quite bittersweet. Obviously, I am excited to finish because I no longer have to get up at 6am and work all day but I have really enjoyed working at Hermione de Paula and the people have been so lovely and helpful. We received a parcel that turned out to be the garments we had spent two days pinning foil butterflies onto, so we had a really fun day unpinning the butterflies again and I know have a passionate hate for butterflies. Other than that, this week I did a lot of dressing up in wedding dresses as well as training two new interns. At Hermione de Paula they have a constant flow of interns working in both Social Media/ Photography as well as Embroidery. Two new Interns started doing Social Media/Photography on Tuesday. This meant me and the remaining embroidery intern had to teach them how to do the basic day to day upkeep of the house. On my final day we helped to set up a photoshoot that was happening that afternoon, they had Hermione’s friend come in to set up a flower installation and to be honest after doing an internship here I feel I could become a professional florist. We were doing odd jobs most of the day, setting up the backdrop, cutting flowers etc I was asked to go pick up the lights and then we set them up when I got back. The photographer turned up and to be honest I think it’s safe to say all the interns were a little annoyed when we were suddenly whisked out of the studio after assuming we would be able to help out. However, having said that the two other girls were working the next day when the photoshoot was carrying on and I think they were allowed to assist on the shoot. When I left on my final day everyone was so kind, they gave me a card that everyone signed which was really sweet.