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The end or the start?

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Hi all,

this is my last blog entry for the Bamboosk8 internship. To you all that are starting this internship soon, good luck. It will change the way you see things, you’ll make lots of friends, you’ll learn a lot about action sports, skateboarding, people and business.

To those that worked with me for the last 4 months, thanks for all your effort and for helping me when I needed it. I hope to see you guys soon and work with you again.

To Mark, Geoff K, Geoff C and Jacquelyn, thanks for all your knowledge and friendliness. I can’t wait to meet you guys and work with you again in the near future.

4 months ago I was wondering what to do after I finished my studies and I didn’t have much experience or quantifiable results to show to prospective employers. Now, after 16 weeks I have a baggage of knowledge, confidence, experience and quantifiable results to go ahead with my career and I know I will stand above the crowd of job seekers.

I can’t thank enough everyone for their time and support, I wish actually I met you guys earlier, but this is where my destiny is taking me right now.

If you’re looking for a positive change in your life and all the other internships never filled that void, well, buckle up for the roller-coaster of your life. You’ll sweat a lot and you’ll be tested to your limits, but every week you’ll see how much you’re learning in sales, PR, marketing, finance and what others take years of work to learn or are never given the chance.

I consider myself lucky, being part of this class and having these people take time from their daily jobs to create something meaningful for future graduates or current university/college students is something that you won’t find anywhere and I know. I searched all of Europe, Australia and USA for this and only Bamboosk8 accepted me and had what I was looking for…real, quantifiable experience that I could then use to get a job in the action sport industry or whatever it is that you’re looking for.

Thanks again for making my life so hard at times, now I have the bigger picture and I know it was all worth it.

Bamboosk8 rocks!!!

Gabriel Ghigi

Tags: Alissa, bamboosk8, David, Gavin, geoff c, geoff koboldt, Jacquelyn Purvis, Jamie, Jessi, malakye.com, mark olson, marketing, Michelle, pr, sales, tameka
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Times flying…

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

Especially this past week! Started out with the Sacred Craft Consumer Surf Expo, which was awesome… it was filled with tons of surf and skate brands. I got a chance to walk around and take a few pictures (they’ll be included at the bottom) of the amazing artists and cool surf boards, I even caught a picture of one of the little kids that was stoked to be on his brand new BambooSK8 board, Oh! And I can’t forget the Primo Beer Truck tarp surfing! haha… Monday was a pretty successful day, Me and Woody finally figured out dates and times for our skate park tour, and I FINALLY finished my Hookit Call List. Tuesday through Friday I spent on the Bamboo Buddy side of things, taking pictures of all their products for their new upcoming catalog! So I’m super excited to see the end result since a lot of hard work was put into it by Jackie, Victoria, Penny, and myself. That pretty much sums up my week… So I’ll leave you with some pictures…

Tags: bamboosk8, Jacquelyn Purvis, Jennifer Smith, Kyle Kasulis, mark olson, Sacred Craft Consumer Surf Expo, Tyler Johnston, Woodrow Bailey
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One month down

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

This past month has been a hectic month for all of the interns. Being introduced to the world of BambooSK8 has been a roller coaster ride. Learning the ways of every individual job that works BambooSK8 (Marketing, Social Media, PR) was a little rough to chew at first but with a little guidance I think we are all starting to finally get into the flow of things. Although I do get confused on some things, I am learning a lot, especially in social media, which I am in charge of, I’m learning what steps you have to take to really get your company out into the world and make your voice heard through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. My biggest road block in this internship is definitely Hookit. Although it is not a difficult system to understand, it is a major part of this internship, especially for the leaders, Kyle and I. A lot of time and devotion needs to go into Hookit to make sure kids we add to our eco tribes are really doing what they need to do in order to keep their sponsorships and move on to higher levels within them.
On a lighter note there were a lot of fun events this first month that we attended like the Cardiff surf event and the channel 6 news tarp surfing. (I will include some pictures at the end of those events.) Another highlight of the month was our intern bowling night, we all found out how horrible we are at bowling, or at least I did, but it was a really good time to get to know who we will be working with for the next four months, and maybe even longer.
I also have had the privilege to do my true passion within the company and photograph any events and products BambooSK8 attend/come out with, so I’ve had a lot of fun with that.