Friday, January 15, 2010

My last day in the Sales and Marketing Department was great. I met Alice in the office this morning but didn't stay there long. With our coats on we headed out to Bond Street to run errands and deliver packages at the post office. We quickly came back, exchanging our warm coats for our suit jackets, and headed to the reception office to get the master set of keys for the hotel. We made our way through William Kent House (a section of the hotel that contains banqueting rooms and access to the suites) to see the many luxurious rooms The Ritz offers. First stop- The Prince of Whales Suite. With 2 king bedrooms, a dinning room, a kitchen, a living room, and 3 deluxe bathrooms, this suite is the nicest at the hotel. And it was beautiful! We then went on to the Royal Suite which was decorated in elegant shades of pink, yellow and green, and contained just as many wonderful assets. Though the Trafalgar Suite was occupied, I learned it was the very room Hugh Grant interviewed Julia Roberts in during the movie Notting Hill. Once done with the tours, we headed back to the office and Alice showed me the entire process of ordering and purchasing in the hotel. But to understand the process fully we had to see the other side of the process, so we headed to the Purchasing Office. There the head of purchases, "Vee-vee" (his Sri Lankin name is too long for anyone else to pronounce or remember) showed us how he amends, confirms, and calculates all the orders that he receives from every department in the hotel. After Alice and I tried to rap our brains around the complicated process, we went back to the office, after stopping by the florist to see the beautiful Ritz Roses. Parked outside the building was The Ritz Rolls Royce and it's wonderful driver Wilkins, just returned from dropping off a guest at Heathrow, so I jumped inside to see the luxurious insides of the monstrous car. I finished up my day in the office and finally said goodbye and thank you to all the great people in the department. I checked out with the security guards and met my mom and Mrs. Bertasi on the Jubilee Line. We headed off to the Borough Market where we walked through the many booths of wonderful food, all lying at the base of a beautiful Cathedral on the Themes River. Unfortunately I'm having trouble uploading the pictures I took at the market, but hopefully I will be able to soon because the rows of colorful booths are an outstanding sight to see, and ever better to smell!

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