Visit With Chris Kopp

So today, I had a busy day at my internship. It was one of my co-workers in Inside Government birthday - Ruth - so we all sang happy birthday to her and we had a cake. Today I compiled all email headers for Inside Government events until December 2009. From the email headers that I completed, I put them all into one document and wrote four more for events that were just released. I then created a database/spreadsheet for invitees to the Green ICT Pre-Conference Dinner, was tasked to find organization, email address, job title and telephone number for each delegate, converted the PowerPoint slides from this week’s conferences into PDF Format so that they would be ready to send to the delegates who attended and created surveys for events next week via surveymethod.com.

Today was also the premier for the new Happy Potter Movie at Leicester Square - all of the big stars were there and I tried to avoid it as much as possible because of the crowds.

I ate lunch at TGI Fridays because I was craving chicken fingers. It rained all day today and as I left work, it poured. I quickly went to the National Art Museum and saw some great painting of Monet, Di Vinci etc. They were beautiful and I will go back to take some more pictures. I met Chris Kopp, who is studying at LSC, and we had a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant - I had breaded veal - delicious! We then walked around Covent Garden and into Westminster and then headed down to Tower Hill as I showed him the big sights in London. We then ended up in Piccadilly Circus and we parted ways and I returned home exhausted. We talked about our trip to Rome this coming up weekend too!

Some random thoughts: 1. Live Nation does big events for the music industry - maybe intern with them in the future. 2. Many people do not drive in the UK - one person just started driving when he was 29 and many people at my work are just starting to learn to drive - and they are 25 years old - a totally different culture. 3. They call 7-up/Sprite, Lemonade in London. 4. Instead of taking your credit card in restaurants, the waiter will bring a portable credit card machine to the table. 5. The credit cards in London have a magnetic chip that you can inside the entire card into the machine instead of swiping it.

Tomorrow, I have another event, so early to bed for me.

Cheers!