ZIMBABWE TO LA, AN INTERNATIONAL INTERN STORY SO FAR

Hi everyone!!!!! I guess its about time i did one of these, well where to begin???? First thing is first, i have to apologize for being really slow about bogging and getting it started but i have finally done it. To tell the truth i had totally forgotten about it and other things got into the way, but now i have made it my priority and your going to be hearing allot of wild and crazy stories about my adventures.

Before i go on i would like to take this moment and introduce myself to those who may not know me. I'm Munyaradzi Tirivepi but imp well known as Munya, I’m from Zimbabwe and for those who don't know where that is, GOOGLE it. My current major is Vocal Performance and the reason why imp doing this internship is to gain some more knowledge of the music business world that i once had done some years ago in the urban world. I'm the first International Student form McNally Smith doing an internship which imp proud of and hope that other international students can one day take this opportunity i have. I'm currently interning at THE URBAN NETWORK MAGAZINE that deals allot with media, music, entertainment and marketing industries. I hope that’s allot said.

Well enough said back to the real deal, so far the summer has been great and the internship even better, but things did start of rough for i only got into LA the day before i started in which i was really upset because i was meant to come on the Friday before the weekend but i had a little flight issues, but what matters was i made it. I couldn't believe that i was in LA until i step outside LAX and all i could say was WOW. My first day was great for i spent most of the day adventuring the city of LA and seeing the glamorous places i thought i would never see and just saying the word WOW. It was great to be here.

My first day at THE URBAN NETWORK was really orientated based for i only got introduced to the company by Warren Griffin and an alumni of McNally Smith College Of Music and who now currently works there and met the important people who work for the company. I finally got the opportunity to meet the CEO and founder of the Urban Network and great man to the company Mr. Miller London. It was such an Honor to meet him but we didn't get to talk as much but a little welcome conversation in hand was enough.

That week we got down to business and worked allot on media relations (social net working) such as IMEEM, MY SPACE, BE-BO e.g. just getting to know how some of this stuff is done. We also had to allot of desk work and updating on radio contacts in which me and mo (another intern from McNally) got really confused in doing but eventually we were able to work it out. For the most part the first week went pretty smoothly.

My second week started off easy and we basically carried on doing our media relations updates and improving on that, and towards the end of the week, 2 new interns form MI school joined us. So Warren split us four into 2 teams a BRANDING TEAM an MARKETING TEAM and each team had its own responsibilities for the next couple of weeks until we change. For example the Branding team in which mo and i are charge of making sure we brand the companies name and what it stands for and getting people to join our social net works., the Marketing team is all about getting the companies name heard and promoting and networking with others. These are 2 very important teams and have allot to offer for the company.

So far so good and everything keeps getting better the weekends have been great to our adventurous night out at Crash Mansion in which Larry took us to have fun, thanks Larry for that one. Oh and not to forget to mention that my boy DANAMI (MO) who terrifically performed yesterday and rock the house down. BIG UP to my boy you did GREAT. I was also able to meet up with an old junior school friend from the 5th grade, Marika May who i got to meet after 9 years of not seeing each other since i left Japan, was a great seeing her and catching up and having a good night out at Santa Monica Beach.

Well there it is focus the brake down of the last 2 weeks and allot that i know that’s going to happen this summer. So 3rd week here we go.