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July 17, 2011

IT'S OFFICIAL! Check out this link to see my name on the list for The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Summer Internship Program website! It lists all of us lucky interns by category, our university, and our host company!  http://www.emmysfoundation.org/current-interns.

The past week at my internship was good. I still can't talk about much of what I do there. It's all "Top Secret," sorry! Once Project Runway airs on July 28th and The Real World: San Diego airs around late September I'll be able to tell you all more!

I try to take advantage of every weekend by doing something new and fun. Although, like most of you around the country have heard about it was "Carmageddon" this weekend. Meaning, one of the most used interstates, 405 N and S is CLOSED for construction. This highway is used heavily because it connects The Valley to the lower part of Los Angeles by driving through the hills. I use it to get to my internship in Van Nuys every day. Seriously, everyone was making a huge deal about it. People heard about it all the way in New York. Many LA citizens did not go into work on Friday or the weekend to avoid the horrific traffic that would be caused from the closure. Many people stocked up on food and stayed in for the weekend. I heard doctors and nurses slept at the hospitals to avoid driving to work. Over the radio people were offering helicopter rides for people to get to work. It was insane how the news was covering "Carmageddon." I live in Westwood currently, which is RIGHT by the 405 interstate, so I have been hearing news helicopters all weekend. Luckily! The construction to blow up a bridge to widen the highway was completed ahead of schedule and was already re-opened by 3pm on Sunday. (It was suppose to open by 5am Monday morning, and for every 10 minutes it was postponed the contractors would be fined $6,000). No wonder it got done quickly.

So to avoid crazy traffic, Andrea and I stayed in and had a fantastic quesadilla dinner that I made Friday night. Saturday we hung out in The Village by UCLA. Andrea later surprised me with tickets to Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 in 3D! We saw the movie at the Fox Westwood Village Theater. It is so beautiful inside and much bigger than I thought it would be, by seating 1,400 people.  This is a picture I took of the ceiling of the historic theater that was built in 1931. The movie was incredible, BTW. EVERYONE MUST SEE IT! (But please read the 7th book first).

Sunday I decided to take Andrea to Beverly Hills. We walked down Rodeo Dr. and Via Rodeo, along with many other connecting roads. This is the entrance to Via Rodeo. There were so many high end stores, including many I had never even heard of. Luckily, it was blue skies and incredibly sunny day. The last week it has been very gloomy and cool outside. We only let ourselves walk into 2 stores: Juicy Couture and Guess. The inside of the stores are beautiful. We stared at all the amazing clothes that we cannot afford. There are many foreign people, recognizably as Europeans taking pictures and acting very touristy on Rodeo Drive. Luckily we found a friendly Dad with his teenage daughter to take Andrea and my picture on the steps of Via Rodeo in exchange for me to take a picture of him and his daughter on the stairs, too.