Victoria Secret Internship: October 25

This week we continued to work on our Happy Project. On Monday, I received a check from the Victoria Secret Headquarters and I went to cash it, so we would have a budget to work with for the remainder of our Happy Project and for our Victoria Secret Fashion Show Viewing Party. I had trouble cashing the check because there are no branches of the bank that I use for my personal use in Oklahoma. I had to go to the bank from where the check was issued. They required I had two forms of Identification and the whole process took almost an hour. Wednesday I met with Shay, and we started to sort the first round of all of our donations. We went to the different houses where we had set the boxes to collect the donations they had gathered thus far. We were a little disappointed with our first round of donations, but it was only the first of our three week project. We tried our hardest to remain optimistic. After we counted and sorted the clothes, we bagged them up to take them to the shelter.

Thursday I filled out surveys online for the Victoria Secret merchandisers. They are coming out with a new fragrance collection, so I answered questions to help them decide what they should name the new collection. I also filled out surveys to help them decide what the packaging should look like. The new collection will be released next August, right before back-to-school shopping begins. I love filling out the surveys and questionnaires on the VS Pink Intern website. The questions are fun, and it's an exciting feeling to know that I'm helping determine what the next Victoria Secret merchandise will be. I also like scanning the Victoria Secret Intern website to see what the other interns at the other colleges are up to. It's great to share ideas and to receive feedback from our peers.

On Friday, I tried to brainstorm other ideas for different ways that we would be able to get clothing donations. I contacted the owner of Plato's Closet in Oklahoma City. Plato's Closet is a place where you can sell your new or gently used clothes, and then they resell the clothes. However, they only take clothes in good condition and that are in season. So, a lot of the time people bring clothes to sell but Plato's closet won't take them. We thought it would be a great idea to set a table outside of the local Plato's closet branch. We faced a problem because the Plato's Closet manager said that we had to get permission from the owner of the property. I spent almost half an hour unsuccessfully trying to get in touch with the property owner. The whole process was really frustrating and I was never able to get permission.

On Saturday, I bagged all of the collections that we had collected thus far and took them to the local Norman shelter that we decided to support. The shelter is called Food and Friends. We received a receipt from a worker at the shelter so we can keep records of all the clothes that we donate.