After
almost an hour, I found myself standing nervously inside the huge building with
the envelope seizing tightly in my side . The vast lobby was filled with people
coming in and out of the building (you can easily notice that some were middle
and upper class). It was simply decorated with well-designed decorations and
stuffs, devised with state-of –the-art
facilities and engineered by innovative and modern technologies. I almost forgot
what really is my busimess there so I remind myself. Yes. Im here to pass my
requirements needed to accomplish and complete my 200 hr training.
Funny, yes, but actually that’s the
real scenario when I first set my foot on the colossal building of Eugenio
Lopez Junior building or better known as ELJ Communications Center/ABS-CBN. Its
not a question for me on how great that company is, so I really felt terrified
with the idea that I will spend my time for training there. But I have to go on
and perform well my duties and do everything what my supervisor will ask me to
do with the best of my effort because there is no turning back.
I was assigned in the
Marketing-Events department of Creative Programs Inc (CPI) which ofcourse deals
with the events that the program is holding. Myx, Cinema One, Balls, TVn, Hero,
Lifestyle, Velvet, ANC, DZMM and FOX are some of the channels manage by the
department.
My first week seemed to be busy
because there was an event for Metro magazine. It was a fashion show event held
at Shangri-la hotel. It was fun, exciting and really, an extravagant experience. Call time was 6 am
which I understood after seeing the loot bags and various products given by
awesome and generous endorsers. The team needed to atleast pack 700 loot bags
with the products inside it to be given to the guests. Its quite a strenuous
task given that we were outnumbered in the group. Thanks to my co-intern Venus
and helpers Kuya Lenard, Rogelio and
Rian, we made it earlier before the expected time.
The second event was the Cinema One
Originals judging and awards night which took one whole week. During the awards
night ,(which was held at Dolphy theater)
we felt terribly awesome yet poignant because different artist and
directors surrounded the area but the sad point is…we cant have our photo taken
there because we might got punish or scold because we are not supposed to act
like that. We were in the time of work and our supervisor was also there so we
just kept it in ourselves.
The next stimulating and
time-consumning event was Myx Mo. Actually its tough because we really needed
to work well and fast as we can, double our time and needed to extend our time
in the office.
But
that hardships worth it all after receiving our bonus of free 20 tickets
which I have given to my friends and
classmates.
During the month of December, the
whole department got busy for the christmas presentations and decorations.
Fortunately, our department had won the first place after the competition for
decorating the area.
My training period easily come to
its end. As the expected end-date drew closer, I came to reminisce my remarkable
moments I shaped and formed there. I
realized that every effort, time and hard work I exhibited were all valuable.
Im happy that I gave my best during the internship period and that’s single
idea I think is simple enough to say that my journey became a nice, exciting
and great one. Trully, experience really gave you the absolute satisfaction
after achieving it knowing you performed well to execute every duty/task
succesfully.