Coach! (and more)

Well, it has been nine days since my last post... and so much has happened. I just completed my first week as a design apprentice at Coach! Thank you to everybody for the well wishes, good luck, vibes, thoughts, prayers, etc! They were so encouraging and absolutely paid off, so thank you SO much! I was tremendously excited when I received the call at the end of last week. Life has moved at a very rapid pace the past few months to accommodate new goals, transitions, and opportunities, but it has been so amazing how quickly and perfectly everything has fallen into place. Sometimes I feel like I need somebody to pinch me so that I know this is real life!

As of tomorrow, I will have been in NYC for exactly two weeks. It blows my mind that two weeks ago, I moved up here with two suitcases, zero friends in New York, and one scheduled interview with Coach. Since being up here, I have met a ton of great people and reconnected with a few. It seems like everywhere I go here, I meet a friend of a friend or someone who grew up in Tallahassee. Its funny how that happens in a city this big.

My job is off to a great start. I'm going to learn so much in the next few months, and Coach seems like such a wonderful place to work. My team is great, the other apprentices are so nice, and I'm really eager to begin designing my collection. Week 2 should be busy, but productive!

Today it snowed for the first time since I've been in NYC. I'll always be too much of a Florida girl for weather like this, but I guess I better start getting used to it.

You know what I could get permanently used to up here? The food! There are way too many tasty treats in NYC. I'm sure a decent portion of my paychecks are going to go towards trying new restaurants. If only someone would want to pay me to be a traveling food blogger!

Anyways, here are some pictures of my time in NYC so far!