Last days!!

So today was my last full day in London. Tomorrow I'm flying back to Finland. I'm sort of sad because I've enjoyed my time here in London so much. But I'm excited that I get to see my family and friends and I'm also graduating. :)

So I finished work last Friday and it was really weird that it was my last day. As a parting gift I got two tickets to see Miss Saigon and the seats were in the front row...it was absolutely amazing. I also got a What's there to do in London- book and a London puzzle. :) It was really nice and it's so amazing, how fast the last five months have gone by.

My last days in London, I've just been touring and shopping. I've also been hanging out with my friends and I also started packing...yeeeah that wasn't really fun. But atleast I got it done. Anyhow I'm really glad that I came to London to do my internship. I have so many good memories and I've learned so much about work, myself and etc. This experience was so amazing and SO worth it. Here's some pictures to finish my last post and thanks so much for reading this and see you guys later!!! :)

My friend and I went to see Charlie & The Chocolate Factory :)

Disney- store!!

Little Venice :)

Around the world :)

Hello again!!

So I only have two weeks left in London and then I'm returning back to Finland. :( In some ways though I'm kind of excited, as I get to see my friends and family. So since my last post I visited Oxford and it was wonderful. I had the best time there. We went to Christ Church and toured the city a little bit. Luckily the weather was also nice, it was really warm. :)

Christ Church!!

Last weekend I also went to visit my friend Anniina in Dublin and it was my first time in Ireland. I loved it, although it rained a LOT. On Saturday we went to a Game of Thrones tour and the bus left at 8 in the morning (I was quite tired). We went to Belfast and during the day we did two 1- hour treks to the filming locations for the show. We saw a lot of different filming locations and the scenery was really beautiful. The weather was also really good and luckily it didn't rain. The tour was excellent and it was a lot of fun. On Sunday, we went to Trinity College and toured the shops and other sights a little bit. We also got some ice-cream, which was AMAZING. :)

Dublin :)

Triniry College

 

On the down side, I've been sick for about a week and a half. I'm finally beginning to feel better again. I think that's all for this time. Ouh and this weekend, my friend is coming to visit me and we're going to see Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, I'm very excited about that. Bye for now!!

Time is running out...

Hello people!!

So it's almost the end of April and I have a little over a month left here in London and then it's back to Finland. I almost feel like I'm running out of time. There's still so much I want to do and see here but luckily I can always come back. :)

So what have I been doing lately, well I've been working A LOT. I also had my internship assessment a week ago. It went really well, which I'm glad about.I have 18 work days left and then I'm officially done with my internship..I'm feeling kind of sad about that :( But atleast I'm graduating in a month from Helmi Liiketalousopisto.

From Shoreditch

A couple of weeks ago, I went to see Let It Be and let's just say that it was a lot of Beatles music. :) Last weekend I visited Cambridge with my friend and we saw a lot of the colleges and also the Cambridge University botanic garden. It was really nice to get out of London for a while and I LOVED Cambridge. I'll definitely go back there someday.

King's college

River Cam

 

I think that's all for this time...except in two weeks I'm going to Dublin to visit my friend Anniina, so I'm excited about that. Here's some pics to finish my post. See you next time!!!

Botanic Garden

The Summer is coming :)

Wow, it's already April and my internship is slowly coming to an end. So I've been busy the last couple of weeks. First my parents were here the last week of March, so I spent a lot of time with them. We visited Camden Market and we also toured Soho a little bit. They also visited Bermondsey, where I live. And on Monday the day before they left, we went to see the Cats- musical. It was really good and the music was wonderful. Of course they toured London on their own and since they've never been to London, there is a lot to see here. :)

Chinatown

We visited the M&M's World :)

Cats!!

I also went out with people from work. It was one of my colleagues last day so we went to eat in the Mayflower. I hadn't been there before, but it was really nice. It's this really cool pub and the food was excellent. :)

At Easter my friend Anniina came to visit me. We visited Camden, Oxford Street and the normal tourist places. We also went to Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, which I haven't had time to visit. It was really beautiful. There were lots of fountains and flowers and the weather was quite nice too.

Princess Diana Memorial Fountain

Chocolate from Hardys :)

Work has been pretty much the same. I've been doing a lot of automatic bookings from Resia. Basically it means, that we have given Resia allocations for different performances, so they sent us bookings, which we just have put into Tourplan and confirm to Resia with the seat numbers. I've also been filling out my evaluation forms, since my internship assessment is in a couple of weeks.

That's pretty much it this time. Also it's getting warmer here. Yesterday it was +17 outside and the warm weather is supposed to continue, so I'm glad about that. :) See you next time!!

Hellou, hellou

So it's almost Easter, how exciting. :) The weather has been really beautiful here and I've been enjoying it fully. I'm very excited for the summer to come here, so I can pull out my summer clothes.
One weekend, the weather was so warm that I went walking with a friend in Regent's Park and we also went to Primrose Hill, where we spent most of our day and it was really fun.

Primrose Hill :)

Regent´s Park

 



























Work has been good so far. I've been doing a lot of musical bookings lately. I've also been checking invoices and inputting them into the system every week. I was also very happy that I finally finalized a booking that I've been doing a few weeks. It was some football tickets and after phoning the football club and emailing with the client for weeks, I finally confirmed the booking. It was especially nice when the client came back thanking me for all the work I've done and my help, so it felt really good. Last week I also dropped off some musical tickets to a couple of theatres: Novello and Her Majestys Theatre, it was nice to get out of the office for a couple of hours. :)

Novello

Her Majestys Theatre

I also went to see Miss Saigon with friends from work and it was really great, although the story is quite sad. That's all for this time..here's a couple of pictures and I'll see you next time. :)

Miss Saigon

I was running near Tower Bridge

Work, work and work

It's already the last week of February and it's hard to believe that I've been here almost two months. Where has the time gone?

So I've been very busy the last couple of weeks. There is always something to do and you never get bored here. :) So about three weeks ago I went to see the Wicked- musical with Taarna. And it was very different to Phantom Of The Opera but I still loved it. The only negative thing was, that the music was quite loud, so some earplugs would have been nice.

Wicked :)

I also went shopping in Westfield (two times actually) and I bought a dress, a few tops and some cosmetics etc. It was really nice and I think that I have to go back soon, because the weather here is slowly getting warmer and I need more summer clothes since most of my clothes are for winter.

I also visited Camden Town and the Portobello Road Market last weekend and it was great. The market was really packed with people, but of course it was Saturday so that was to be expected. It was also a very nice weather out so my weekend was great. :)

Camden :)

Portobello Road Market

So a little more about my work. Our booking system is Tourplan and the last month I've really been learning a lot about it. In the end, it is quite simple. I work in the Ticket Department, so we deal with Theatre-, Football-, Musical- bookings etc. I've been doing a lot of Thriller, Lion King and Let It Be musical bookings.

I've also been checking invoices and inputting them into Tourplan. Of course, then there's the normal office duties I do, like opening the mail, answering the phone, going to post office and the bank etc. I've also been updating the Theatre Lists, that we have in Excel quite a lot and it is quite fun, but sometimes it does take a long time.

Doing deliveries though is the best part. For example, I've taken tickets to different hotels near Covent Garden and it's so nice to be able to see the hotels a little bit and the area. :)
My workday includes lots of things, but mostly I do bookings, answer the phone, open the mail etc. So I do quite a lot of the same stuff every day.

Here's a couple of pictures from the area, where I took some football tickets.

 

And if you read this far, good job. :) See you next time!!