Can I bring you another size?

So, two of my three shifts this week are over. Overall, I did a pretty good job and I really enjoy working for Aritzia! Everyday I see new amazing stuff that I haven't seen the day before. So for example this outfit.. tomorrow I'm probably buying these jeans... Love it!

My first day at Aritzia

Today is the big day. I'm starting to work at Aritzia. I had a short orientation shift last week, but today I'm having my first real shift, where I can actually sell stuff.... Please keep figures crossed for me that I'll be doing a good job... I'm excited!

Here is one of my favorites from Aritzia.. 

L'oreal E-Strat Competition

Hey everyone,

Some of you might know that me and two of my classmates (Bhavna and Nikhil) from India have participated in a competition organized by L'Oréal. This so-called L'Oréal E-Strat competition is one of the world's biggest online business simulation. This international competition is open to undergraduate and MBA students in their final two years of university or business school. In the first round we were competing with 221000 students from 2200 schools representing 128 countries. 

Although we didn't make into the international finals in Paris, we made into the national finals, which were organized by L'oreal Canada for the Canadian teams. The top three teams had the task to produce a video presenting their business plan to the L'oreal executives! We did that and became 2nd!!! Now we are waiting for the hundreds of L'oreal products that they've promised us ;) 

I have uploaded the video, so please check it out!

Have fun!

MoMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York

Here are some of my favorites from the MoMA: 

Frantisek Kupka.1910

Czech Artist

Girl before a Mirror by Pablo Picasso
This oil on canvas was painted in March 1932 by the Spanish artist

Frida Kahlo.Fulang-Chang y Yo. 1937

Roy Lichtenstein. Drowning Girl. 1963

My favorite artist ever..

Andy Warhol.Campbell's Soup Cans.1962

Andy Warhol.Double Elvis.1963

Okay... that's it for now! Please let me know what to think about it...

Happy Easter!

Alena

Hope there is still someone out there reading this blog !!!

Hello guys,

I know I have not been treating this blog very well, but I really want to get this started again. Sorry for being so lazy.

Summary of what important things have happend over the last four months:

1) I moved in with Daniel

2) I have a part-time job in the fashion industry (check out aritzia.com)

3) I'm in NYC right now!

So let's start with some pics from my New York trip...ENJOY

TOPSHOP finally opened a store in North America. The first store is obviously in New York. This is the first store where I had to wait in line for over 30 minutes just to get in!!

A wonderful Marc Jacobs store...

The very vintage Mango store.

Time Square & me. 

My personal New York's bikes collage

It's over ... at least for a month!

Hello everyone,

oh my gosh.. I don't know where to start. Okay, I will start with the school. All my exams are over now and the last project of my first term finished on December 4th!! 

The last project in which we had to come up with a proper business plan was quite tough. Me and four other lovely ladies ... 

... have decided to develop a business plan for a clothing store for men called wood (if you're interested where the name comes from, then please ask me individually per email ;). Besides producing our own collection, our store would have offered free styling advice to men. 

It was quite interesting to develop the entire business plan, which included for example market research such as an online survey and interviews with men to get some information regarding their shopping habbits. After conducting our market research, it really looks as if there is a lack in the industry and as if this business would be quite successful. During our exams, we did not really have enough time to work on this project, which led to lots of last minute work before the deadline. We worked all night before the deadline at 8am in morning. We have not received our grade yet... If the grade is good, we might really think about opening this store in future.. Of course only if we find some people that are crazy enough to invest in us ;)

After all that stress we had an amazing 'Core no more'-Party in Downtown, which included lots of alcohol and fun... The party was followed by many and many hours of sleep that I had missed in the last three months..

Last weekend, Franzi visited me in Vancouver. We spent two days in Whistler and rocked the slopes. There was not much snow, but still we had lots of fun. Daniel joined us for the first day.

Here are some impressions...

Tomorrow, we are picking up Tanja from the airport already :-)  And that means we are going up the mountains again!!! Tanja and me going to be in Whistler for 5 days! I cannot wait to be there again. It supposed to snow all weekend, so let's keep fingers crossed that it comes true..

Merry X-Mas!!!

Yours

Alena

Next exams...

Hey guys,

here is a short update to what happend in the last two weeks (sorry Kerstin that I'm so lazy ;)

First of all, I have totally forgot to tell you that I'm the captain of the dodgeball team now !!! I hope you all know what dodgeball is?? It's the best sport ever (right after snowboarding of course) Watch this to get an impression what Dodgeball is about: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEsgiUBGlLc&feature=related

And here are two of my action pictures:

 My teams rocks...

 Some air action

At the moment we are number three in the league! The aim is definitely to become number one.. we are quite optimistic ;)

An less exciting issue are my exams. Today I have again two of them: Finance and Organizational Behaviour. I should be fine with Finance, because it is not really new for me. Let's see how it works. Again: Don't forget to keep fingers crossed! 

Miss you all!!

Cheers

Alena

P.s. the last two exams went pretty well... :-)