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Chase, Kyleigh and I interviewed John Hohl who works for LinkPrefer and does affiliate marketing and tracks sales. He went into public relations where he described that he's always wanted to work with celebrities. I thought it was interesting to hear that he said 10 years ago it was easier to find someone based off of their name to work with celebrities because now they're looking for return on investments where if you spend thousands of dollars to work with a celebrity they

This whole trip to Cannes and experiencing the Lions festival is truly one I will never forget. It was my first time traveling outside of the U.S. and also my first time traveling alone, so I really experienced a bunch of firsts with this trip and I'm really grateful because I was really nervous but I did it and it showed me that I am capable of doing things on my own. I learned that you have to immerse yourself into the experience because that's where the best memories come

Tuesday Awards Show I went to the Tuesday Awards Show because they were handing out the Lions for the Entertainment Lions for Sport and many other categories gold winners and Grand Prix winners. I enjoyed watching the campaigns the brands crafted using creativity like the CeraVe and Kevin Durant collab where they used humor the aspect of Kevin's ashy legs going viral and used that to promote their lotion, where he earned "The New Face of Legs" title. Another campaign I rememb

Today is the last day in Cannes and looking back I had a lot of fun creating new memories with people I would have possibly never met if it wasn't for this trip, which I'm eternally grateful for. I'm walking away from this experience with so much insight from the talks I went to between Sport Beach and Female Quotient, the awards shows and from the people around me. I get to walk away from this trip with new friends and again a bunch of fun memories. I have a bunch of favorit

Today was the final day of the beaches, which is really sad to think that this study abroad experience is starting to come to an end. I don't think it's hit me until this moment of writing this blog how fast everything has gone by so I really want to take it all in and experience all there is to just be in the moment both today and tomorrow. We started out at Pinterest Beach to create fun journals with Adobe. I was partnered with Hannah which was really fun to see how our vib

I had a really cool experience at Sport Beach today where I got to partake in Creator Field Day with Stephania Ergemlidze, Chari Hawkins, Max Klymenko, Brandon Marshall and Coco Mocoe. When I arrived they were throwing footballs into targets as a little competition, so I decided to pass the time at the small golf greens they had and putted a few balls. After a few putts I noticed they were doing a putting competition to see who could get closest to the target and I was intere

Day two of the festival was filled with even more interesting talks than the first. We met up at Inkwell and Informa's headquarters for the week to meet with Inkwell's founder Adrianne Smith and Michelle Morgan from WPP Media. They both told us more about their careers and what they have done for the companies they represent, which was insightful and just knowing you have to apply yourself for the change you want to see in the future. After our morning meet up I went to Pinte

Today was the official kick off to the Cannes Lions Festival, which was so exciting! I got a free candle from the Amazon Port's library, which was really cool to walk in there because I enjoy reading. I saw a series that I've read before like the Fourth Wing series by Rebecca Yarros and some that are on my long list of books I would like to read. I got a free candle inspired by the book Off Campus that is now made into a TV series, which I haven't read or watched yet but I've

Today we were tasked with collecting our badges and then we got to have a free day to ourselves before the festival starts tomorrow. This morning I walked to collect both my Cannes Lions and Sports Beach badges, which was really peaceful. I got to enjoy more of the view of the buildings, boats and the beaches with everything being set up for the festival. On my way to my sports badge pick up I walked past a Formula 1 car on display outside of the Casino and I found that to be

Today we had a picnic in a garden, which was very beautiful and inside the shop smelled amazing with all the floral scents. On our way to the picnic site we walked passed what I believe to be a little manmade pond and it had some koi fish in it, which was really cool to see because I don't see those often back home. Also these koi fish were huge. I don't think I have ever seen one as big as my arm or forearm before. Lunch was really good. we had a sandwich, which used a Frenc

Today we had class at the Espace Mimont where we learned more about the Cannes Lions Festival and how it was to recognize those in advertising back in 1954. I learned that the first festival was held in Venice, Italy, where the lion of Piazza San Marco inspired the lion trophy which I found to be really interesting. Then we played a little game called Tic Tac Cannes that got all of us to roam around the room to talk with each other answering the questions on our sheets. We al

I arrived in Nice, France at 8:10 this morning and my first thoughts after going through customs and getting my luggage was that it was hot from the humidity. I started my journey by taking a taxi to get to the college where we'll be staying and the view was gorgeous. There were buildings everywhere and a bunch of greenery, which is much different than the desert scene that I'm used to back home. Upon arriving I immediately noticed how friendly everyone is here, which helped