An editorial/graphic design internship in the heart of Amsterdam during the summer?

Sorted. 
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(p.s. Yup, due to volcanic panic I'm still stuck in the motherland, I should be back next week. Thanks everyone for making my extended holiday in the Netherlands so much fun and eyeopening :)

My 1st internship.

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I made a thing.

My first internship is coming to an end and this is the result of 2 months of 9-10 hour work days, millions of emails, phonecalls, pushing limits, breaking boundaries, cutting and pasting, pictorial decision making and learning shitloads of photoshop and indesign tricks. It's said to be the freshest and bestest edition of Edge magazine so far. Now I know what you're thinking, it isn't exactly Vogue, but try to keep in mind that previous issues were crammed into dull, manque templates and that not so inspirational photography of middleaged women in flower patterned patato sacks set the tone for the whole zine. But the creative director said; "Unexperienced Naive Intern, Let There Be a Promotional Fashion Supplement That Hath The Feel Of A Magazine." And so with the idea in my head that this is a magazine for the contemporary Jewish woman reader and that Jewish women too deserve more than patatos sacks, with a fresh pair of eyes I put my Conde Nast hat on and tried my best to spice this biatch up and the CD scratched his head and saw that it was surprisingly good. What more kudos can this humble design student ask for?
Also I recently found out that my boss, the creative director, used to work at the Village Voice in New York in the 70's and that he designed adds for iconic NYC club CBGB together with CBGB's owner Hilly Kristal and that through Kristal he supported acts like the Ramones and Blondie with his own band. He's still good friends with Kristal's daughter Lisa, who's now married to Dutch photographer Ger Burgman. Rock&Roll mang.

My kosher internship.

For those of you who didn't know yet, about a month ago I got offered a work placement at the a Jewish Newspaper ;) (And recently got offered an extension :) I'm one of the very few Gentiles working here but am treated very well and I'm learning lots, design wise and Jew wise. It's a good place to be at, a very warm and gentle distraction from the recent emotional pains that I've had to go through, to say the least. I was invited here to do the layout of their seasonal promotional magazine (read: articles and features on loads of expensive Jew&Gentile fashion/lifestyle brands that no-one can afford-at the moment) but often also work on their weekly newspaper (which can be quite stressful but is challenging and exciting all the same.)
What is involved is a lot of photo-selection and editing, structure layout design, application design, up to 11 hour work days, a proper London boy style chief editor with a "fucking" tick who talks a lot to himself in unfinished sentences which is always super helpful, a New York creative director with a lot of baggage, Jews with a lot of "Oye's" and hand gestures, loads of (kosher) food and quiet Friday afternoons as a lot of them go home early for Shabbat. (The fact that I sometimes see people standing by the trafficlights waiting for someone to push the button on Saturday finally made sense as I got told Jew's aren't allowed to do a lot of things including operating machines during Shabbat, which almost made me fall into a laughing fit.)
They take their safety quite serious, being Jews and all. I can't stand outside smoking without Ken the doorman screeching some warning about how it's a no stopping zone through the megaphones at some cabdriver who's trying to turn his cab around. With a huge sign with thei name of the paper hanging outside the building they may as well have a huge fuckoff sign hanging at the front door that says 'Loads of JEWS up in here if you would like to commit a terrorist attack'.

Ps. To the International Homies with Broad Shoulders League, those of you who did know but hadn't seen the photographs yet, thanks for all your rooting and support :) Much Love.