A Slow But Eventful Week

This week I got sent out with a photographer on assignment to write a story. What a rush! Basically that morning I came in and about 40 minutes later JP came to my desk and told me the photographer was waiting in the car. I had to quickly read what the article was about and then come up with questions to ask. All of this done on the way there. I started to panic as I had no idea what to ask or even what this was about. Particularly since I had not done any research myself. I had to rely on the little research they had given me. The photographer helped me by telling me where and what the school was actually raising money for. When I got there we were met up with some people from the school board. We went inside and I interviewed a couple of the kids along with the teachers and principal involved. It was all a very eye opening experience. The rest of the week was very slow. With Christmas on the Wednesday there was nothing really going on in Canberra. So we were basically given a new assignment to do where we had to write about everything that was going on in Canberra. This was a pretty mundane assignment but it wasn't too bad. At least we were given something to do. It also gave me the opportunity to work on my writing skill. On Thursday I spend some of my day chatting and shadowing one of the newer journalists there. She was really nice and it was interesting hearing her experience as a journalist at The Canberra Times as well as what she had done earlier on in her life that lead her to that career. On our last day JP took us aside and had a coffee and a chat with us. He talked about how he thought we went and what he thought we could improve on. He also asked us about our experiences there and all of our thoughts. It was good being able to ask him some advice and also how he got to be where he was. It was a quiet week but still just as eventful as the first week. I have to say, I felt a lot more relaxed this week then I did in the first week. I will admit I was extremely stressed on the first few days there. It felt a lot better and more at ease this last week.