Hey, four years ago I got a call from an American student who wanted to spend six or eight weeks with us at 3fish over the summer. Now I'm normally very receptive to this sort of request, but my congenital inability to get my shit together means that the best laid plans never really see the light. This time however I did the do and she kept in contact and we all got it sorted and Rebecca rocked the 3fish boat.

We kept in contact and she told us that every year her university invites a visiting lecturer over for a week to spread the word and generally make the students over there feel like they are getting some attention. I was well up for a US holiday at the time and I nagged her to let me be the one who flew to Baltimore to impart my graphic design knowledge. Well they fell for it and I flew over and it was great and I made some great friends and I think a lecture theatre-full of american graphic design students saw what 3fish and I was about. It was good. So good that the university approached me to see if that they could send a placement student (an intern they call it) over to 3fish every year to spend six weeks with us learning the way of the fish. I said yes. They ran a competition and whittled the entrants down to two worthy students and we picked one to come over. 

Last year we had Justin and it was a scream. (I might write a retrospective blog about that if news gets scarce, but for now believe me.)

This year we picked Mallory.

Obviously we had no idea if Mallory was (is) a boy of a girl, but we liked her/his stuff and the decision was made and we were excited. 

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As it turned out Mallory didn't have a penis and was excited too. I'll tell you more as it unfolds.