Bobbi's Chocolates

Whether it’s making copies, getting coffee, or my task of sticking addresses on envelopes to be sent out, Interns are notorious for doing the monotonous little jobs that someone has to do. Nevertheless, at Tg Communications, even the most repetitive tasks have proved interesting. The work environment itself is constantly bubbling with energy as the phones do not cease from ringing, packages are constantly being delivered and someone is always walking in heels down the small hallway connecting each office. In the middle of all of this business-chic chaos is my desk (literally in the middle, there are five desks around mine aka very intimidating). This morning I attended a breakfast at the most beautiful hotel I have ever seen, the Shangri-la. The breakfast was hosted by Tg Communications for journalists to sample Nuxe products. There were also presentations by the Nuxe directors. Later this afternoon, Hannah gave me Bobbi Brown advertisements to translate as well as an interview with Bobbi. Although I had to look up a few words such as age spots, eye shadow, etc. the translations proved to be familiar for the most part. It was also interesting to notice Tg Communication's touch on each advertisement. For example, I translated a few ads with the theme of "Bobbi's Chocolates", and an idea that Tg communications actually influenced as a campaign for Bobbi Brown products to be compared to and packaged as chocolates. TG chooses the sayings, which quotes, and what colors to make the products look the most chic in store presentations, and with specific advertising messages. Assigning addresses to envelopes for 300 of Nuxe’s most valuable costumers was also a task of mine. Nuxe products were being sent to Katya Pellegrino, Joanna Coles (the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan), Sophie Lacoste, Editor in Chief of the Figaro, and many many more people that I recognized. Representing Tg Communications, each address had to be stuck on each envelope in the utmost perfect condition, and doing so reminded me of what we are all representing. TG was representing Nuxe, Bobbi Brown, L’Oréal, OPI, Estée Lauder and a few other high end labels that I would love to get samples of. Therefore everytime someone got an envelope from Tg they would associate that work with all of those labels. Such representation brought me to recall our lunch with Former United States Ambassador Howard Leach, and how he stressed the importance of representing the US even as a stagiare or intern. Although my tried-to-be-perfect placement of address labels on each envelope will go  most likely go unnoticed, thoughts of positively representing the US remind me to continue to listen even as many of the girls speak a million miles per hour. 

Chloe