Busy days

Leonardo DaVinci once said: "Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer." This has proven to be very true in the process of writing a thesis and doing an internship at the same time.

The deadline of the draft thesis is coming up, only two weeks lefts, and I am getting more and more stressed by the minute. I thought I was on schedule and I was happy I already had two official confirmations of people I could interview. However, it has been more than one week already since I send them my interview and they still not send their answers back. They are doing me a huge favour and I don’t want to nag. Together with my supervisor, I wrote a nice and motivating email I am going to send tomorrow. I hope this email will drive them to answer the questions more quickly so I can process the results. I am meeting with a classmate tomorrow to compare our thesis’s and to give each other some tips and advice. I hope it will helps us both.

The other intern at my placement has been ill for the last week. Because of this, it was extremely busy and hectic. I had to do twice as much and I did not have time to work on my thesis at all. Especially today has been a very hectic day. I had to make the newsletter all by myself and I had to put every reference to the website from the magazine online. There were also a lot of advertorials I had to make and they all had a deadline since they had to be approved by the advertisers. Given that the other intern will still be ill tomorrow, I have to work on my thesis day which means even less time to write. Although, I only have to work in the morning, I preferred to stay home and work there. But it is okay, I will just work on Saturday….that’s the spirit right J! But, on Friday night, I will have a little relaxation!

Have a nice weekend! I surely will, together with my lovely thesis, have the best weekend of my life ;)!

Some bad and some good news

Let’s start with some bad news. Then we can, hopefully, finish with nicer things. One week ago, my supervisor told me that she had found a new job. This new job is a very good thing for her and I am happy for her. However, for me it is not really the best thing that could happen. It is not sure yet who is going to replace her but we have some people in mind. I just hope that the person who is replacing her, is going to be just as nice as my supervisor is. I also hope that I can still stay in summer to work (if I like the new web editor of course). My supervisor told me she is still going to arrange it but since nothing is really sure right now, I am not sure if it will all work out the way I hoped. I just have to wait and see!

Via a website, I found my second person who I can interview for my thesis. He is an expert in the field of online marketing and websites. The agency he works for gives awards to the best websites each year in England. As a consequence, he knows a lot about the subject of my thesis and he can help me a lot with some theories, some questions I have and he can give me more insight into the whole topic. I am really glad he is willing to do the interview and I am curious to see his answers. I also send an email to a Dutch expert today and I hope he is willing to answer my questions as well. The only expert I still need to find is an American one. Anyone some ideas?

Currently, it has been really hectic at work. Coming Sunday it will be Mothering Sunday. The websites target group mostly consist of women who are mothers and therefore we have to give a lot of attention to it. The other intern and I arranged a lot of prices which website visitors can win, we made a newsletter with the theme Lots of love for Mothering Sunday and we wrote articles. These ‘specials’ are really nice and gives you the change to really focus on one thing. I also made a royal wedding quiz, because of the royal wedding of William and Kate last Friday, which was put in the newsletter. This quiz generated a lot of click and people wrote positive comments about the quiz. I liked this a lot since it is nice to see the appreciation of your work!