September 6-September 12

The Monday this week was Labor Day, and it was a great three-day weekend. I wasn't super busy with my internship this week because we were mostly getting things ready for events next week. We are scheduled to go to four different sorority houses and give presentation describing and promoting Pink Nation. Shay did a great job of getting in touch with the presidents of the sororities and getting times set up.

Shay and I had several different long phone conversations getting the logistics for the promotional events ready. We discussed what time we would meet, the freebees we would give away, how we would go about getting girls to sign up, and what we would say when we got to the sorority houses.

I exchanged many emails with Caroline, the VS Pink employee who is in charge on the VS Pink internship program. Caroline sends us emails almost everyday updating us on new ways to get girls to sign up for Pink Nation, as well as new surveys that have come out and new Pink Nation deals to give as incentives to get girls to sign up. I also exchanged several different emails with the OU Homecoming chair in attempts to get our clothing drive to be a part of the homecoming activities. So far, things seem optimistic. With a university as large as Oklahoma, there were a lot of different people we needed to get to OK our collaboration.

I took the second round of STYLE U pictures this week. We played Florida State, and we knew it was going to be a huge game and a ton of fans were going to come out and support the Sooners. This was great for us, it gave us a ton of girls to choose from for the pictures and everyone was so excited for the game. This made our job so much more fun.

I've really enjoyed my work with VS so far. I've learned a lot of small communicational skills with internal and external publics. I've learned the importance of sending emails and communicating openly with those who are working with me. The help from Shay and Caroline has been so great and I wouldn't be able to handle all of the work without them. I've also learned through the STYLE U pictures that approaching people is so much easier if you can be optimistic and keep smiling. They will be so much more likely to assist in whatever you need.

Tuesday: 4:00 - 6:00 (2 hours)

Wednesday: 1:00 - 3:00 (2 hours)

Thursday: 4:00 - 6:00 (2 hours)

Saturday: 12:00 - 3:00 (3 hours)

Sunday: 5:30 - 6:30 (1 hour)

This week = 10 hours

Total = 31 hours