Florrie Elizabeth.

After being accepted for a work placement back in November, on Monday 25th June the time had finally arrived to get the train to Victoria for the start of my placement at Press Association. I was to work in the Features department, which covers everything from food to health to travel. I arrived early for my placement on the first day, where I met Ella Walker, the Acting Features Editor. After a quick tour of the office, I immediately got started on the first commission of my placement, an article for BT Lifestyle on fears of dog flu becoming a pandemic, with a deadline set for before lunchtime. I used multiple sources to research and verify the medical information behind dog flu, and gave the topic context by giving a brief summary of the impact of swine flu. As I researched using specialist websites, I took extra care to make sure that I explained the disease in a clear yet informative way. Once the article was submitted, I headed off to lunch and found the Cardinal Place rooftop ...

The first week of the summer holidays is over and what a week it has been. Usually, the end of the summer term means that hours and hours of relaxation are to follow but, for me, not this year. Less than 24 hours after finishing for the year, three friends and I jumped on a coach to Lille, France for a week of language-advancing work experience. Yes, the prospect of working completely alone in an environment where not one person speaks the same language as you was fairly daunting and, yes, I had questioned over and over again why I had put myself up to it. Nevertheless, we got on that coach with optimism and were eager to start our journey to perfecting our Français. Despite the four-and-a-half hour delay that our trip was subjected to due to increasing pressure on channel services, a sing-a-long to Mamma Mia and Les Misèrables meant that we arrived at the hotel raring to get out into the evening air for some dinner. One hour we had to find a place to go and eat. One hour it took ...

Renwick McAslan You may remember when, back in September, I became a blogger for the Roundhouse , London. Well, as part of my duties, I was commissioned to write an article on getting into the advertising industry so I travelled into Central London to interview Renwick McAslan from  BBH Advertising . After getting over the initial nerves of my first interview with someone, I managed to carry out a twenty-minutes-long session. Later, I transcribed and edited the interview to then be submitted to the coordinator of the Roundhouse Bloggers' Project. Having checked the website, I am now very excited to announce that the interview has been published... Click here to check it out! I highly recommend checking out the other activities going on at the Roundhouse as there are some remarkable opportunities to be had there. It truly is more than just a good music venue. Florrie x .

On Saturday morning, I arrived at the Roundhouse, Camden, with no idea of what to expect. The weekend before, I had applied to take part in the Roundhouse Bloggers' Project, which is a course aimed at 16-25 year olds, who want to get into the competitive media industry. The workshop immediately appealed to me as an aspiring journalist, so I sent my application form, along with one blog post idea for the Roundhouse website, and hoped for the best. As I had applied at the last-minute, I didn't have to wait long to find out if I had been successful and, the next day, I was delighted to find out that my idea of a series of 'How to Get Into the... Industry' blog posts had won me a place on the project- yippee! Photo taken from the Roundhouse website: www.roundhouse.org.uk Famous for welcoming some of the world's most famous stars through its doors, the Roundhouse is currently staging the annual iTunes Festival, which music acts such as Kasabian, Kylie and Ed Shee...