Harrods

It's so hard for me to update this blog. I don't know what constatutes a new entry and what's interesting or bizarre enough to write about. Anyways saturday I went to the world reknowned Harrods department store. The store is impressively massive and overwhelmingly packed with shit and tourists. It's nothing that Saks 5th Avenue isn't back at home. Over priced, overly dramatic and just really nice to look at stuff because the price tags are ridiculous. However, the one difference is that in Harrods there are affordable things, but they just may not be worth while buying. The place is about 7 stories tall with an Eyptian room, Wine room, Fine food grocery store, meat deli, gelato bar, home furnishing, mens, womens, kids, electronics. Their slogan is "Everything, for Everyone, Everywhere." Except in Latin I think.

We ended up going down to the wine and liquor area because they give you free shots to taste the liquor before you buy it. They also have an assortment of oddly, but uniquely shaped bottles for you to purchase as much (or little in my case) of liquor as you want. This french girl helped me out and started giving me shots of the liquor and was insanely nice and knowledgable about here liquor. She said she had to be as a part of her job and then told me that the french are known for 3 things:

1. SEX
2. FOOD
3. LIQUOR

In that order. Hmm.......

I felt bad because she was so helpful that Shane and I both bought 200 ml (approx. 4 shots) from her. I got this drink called Caracao Blue, which tastes deliciously sweet. Perfect for after dinner she said. That's one thing that Harrods had was incredible customer attention and service. Every person in there was willing to assist you in any way, shape or form without giving you a smug look as if you couldn't afford the things in the store. One kid tried on a £5,000 Rolex watch. Only after the lady behind the counter saw him looking at it and asked him to try it on.

Harrods structure is impressive. It's built with intricate detail and expands till forever. Every floor we went on we tried going down a separate flight of stairs so as not to pass the same stuff. You really couldn't. We got lost on one floor for a while and then couldn't find the right stairwell to lead us outside.

Unfortunately, I start my internship at Fleishman Hillard International Communications (an international PR agency) Monday at 9:30 a.m. I say unfortunately because that will cut my drinking time in half. Lol. However, I'm excited for this opportunity because they have offices in Chicago and New York and it's potentially a great place to intern or work this summer if I enjoy it enough here. The office is located in a nice part of town here (Convent Gardens) and handles everything from Health, Public Affairs, Consumer products, technology, Web design, Advertising, almost everything. It's a well rounded agency and I think I'll get a great opportunity to delve into a little bit of everything and maybe give my liver a break?