P&G

My Marketing Applications course had a guest speaker come in the other day. A young woman who is currently working for P&G (Procter and Gamble) one of the largest and wealthiest multinational companies in the world. P&G's products include, Pringles, Tide, Gain, Always, Braun, Gilette, Duracell, Folders, and the list goes on.

To continue, our speaker works for P&G has a Brand Manager for Always (feminine hygiene). She went through what her job entails, and spoke a lot about other positions that are available at P&G. P&G has headquarters in over 80 countries in the world, giving anyone the opportunity to travel. There are usually tons of entry level positions at P&G, from their Canadian headquarters in Toronto to Paris headquarters.

By the sounds of it, I would enjoy being a Brand Manager. You make important decisions with a team of people on a specific brand. You suggest advertisement, doing research, market the product, all while working different creative teams, accountants etc.

She went over the application process to apply to P&G, it's gruesome. You first have to upload your resume to their website, then are asked to take a multiple choice test, where all answers are correct but P&G wants people who answer the questions specifically, so if you answer what they want you go on to the next level. This is where you have to take a one hour test in your university. The test consists of questions such as "There is water pouring into a cup at such such a speed, and water is pouring out at such and such a speed, when will there be no water in the cup". Now that's a terrible question, it's all math.. which freaked me out, but apparently they have a cheat sheet on their website.

So perhaps one day I will be a brand manager at P&G.

Random

Screech, taking a break from attacking my homework.

I have been tagged by my aunt Susan to write seven random facts about myself. Here goes.

1. I am a night owl. No matter how early I have to get up the next morning I can never seem to go to bed before 12am-1am. Even if I have nothing better to do than lay in bed and watch TV, I can never seem to fall asleep till after those times.

2. I do not like potatoes, and I was born on an island known for producing potatoes.

3. I have watched every season of Survivor since it aired eight years ago. That's 16 seasons of Survivor, and I am still not tired of it.

4. I am terrible at Math. Every form of math possible, addition, subtraction, division, all the way up to algebra and calculus. I just plain suck at it.

5. I find this god fellow to be extremely interesting, and question its existence all the time. I would prefer to believe that there may or may not be anything, even though I lean towards there being nothing.

6. I love X-Men, and seriously wished super-natural powers existed even at the age of 20.

7. I hate mess. I think growing up in a house where my mom has picked up after me has taught me to like living in clean environments. Now living on my own I can't stand the smallest mess especially those made by others. ( I won't name names haha)

4 Months

It has been four months since my last post, quite awhile. So for my second attempt at having a blog I decided to change a few things. First thing I changed the name of my blog, from Colonial Street to I Am A Ad. I wanted to to have a name that fit with my current situation of going to university in hopes of one day working in advertising. Majority of the names I wanted to use were taken, so my aunt Susansuggested "I am an ad". This blog is an ad, since it is somewhat promoting my life.

I also created a new masthead to go with the new name. I like how the cartoon version of me turned out. I even used the picture and made a favicon to go next to the website url. I am sure there will be a few more small changes over the next few days.

Busy Days

I know that's its been awhile since I have posted but its because of has mid term week. I a Calculus midterm Monday, a Spanish midterm and then a Accounting and Marketing midterms today. They were all pretty hard. Luckily I passed my Calculus midterm with a 61, which I am very happy about. Wont know anything about the other ones until next week. Now I am just relaxing watching a movie and playing qith my latest gadget. A iPod Touch.

I sold a few things and used that money to buy it. That sad thing is I am going to have to return this one because it has somewhat of a glitch when shutting down, and when i sync it to my computer it says I need to restore to factory settings. For some reason its working okay right now but I don't know for how long. I am actually typing this blog entry on it. It shows web pages as they actually are not some condensed picture less cellphone browser.

Well I am going to go finish movie,"They".m

The Long Weekend

Today is the beginning of our long weekend. No school until Wednesday, it's a much needed break for me to catch up on my school readings, though from what it looks like now I'll probably wait to the end of the break to start it. More procrastination.

Right now I am watching the first season of the show called Firefly. Before yesterday I had only heard of the title of the show and didn't really know much about it besides that it was in space and the future. One of my room mates watched it and decided to buy the entire series on DVD. From watching two episodes so far it's a pretty good show. It's almost like an old cowboy tv show but in space.

Venice Pizza

Since living here, we have eaten at Venice Pizza (our pizza shop on the corner) way to much. The problem is, is that their pizza is way too good, and the location of their restaurant is only a few steps away from our house. It's hard not to eat there .

Our usual is a Jumbo Garlic finger, for $10.50 which isn't too bad split four ways. I have also tried their Meat Lovers Pizza, their Greek Pizza (with stuffed crust) and their Fries Extreme (which is fries with gravy and dressing). The dressing is very good, before coming to Newfoundland I had only heard the term dressing used for the dressing most families eat for Thanksgiving. But here in Newfoundland everyone knows about fry dressing. Go in to a fish and chips restaurant and they'll ask you two things when ordering fries. The usual "Would you like gravy with that?" and the new one "Would you like dressing with that". So most people who aren't from Newfoundland would only assume that the dressing their talking about is bread dressing, or turkey dressing depending on what you call it. Which is what I expected the first time I had it on fries, but it is nothing like it. It's hard to explain what it tastes like or what it looks like, it doesn't look like turkey dressing, but it is crumbly. Lets just say you can't visit Newfoundland without buying fries, with added dressing.

11:00PM

The photo above is of The Basillica Cathedral of St. John's the Baptist. It took sixteen years to build this giant church, from 1839 to 1855. It sits 2,500 people in a giant hall, has ceilings 48 meters high. Even though I am not a very religious person, you can't help but notice the architecture of this giant structure. It seems to also be a huge tourist attraction, as every time I drive by on the bus or walk by there are always people taking pictures in front of it. The church is also apart of a historic route of downtown St. John's. The Basillica reminds of a slightly smaller version of the Notre Dame in Paris, France, which I had the opportunity to see in person a little over a year ago.