My first day on the job

I was somewhat excited when I woke up this morning. I knew there was going to be a lot of walking involved, which isn’t too much fun. Everyone grabbed their press badges and fast passes and marched to our Journalism 101 class.

We got there, and learned more about leads (or ledes) and other important things our articles are supposed to have, did some final touches on the biographies we made for each other.

Then finally our editors gave us our assignment and everyone quickly got to work trying to get their sources. I’m still trying to think what the “focus” of my story is going to be. I’m deciding on centering on the Immersion program and what it is about, because many people have heard a little bit about it or not at all.

After tediously writing and pulling together a source list, I got a hold of about two people to interview tomorrow.

After lunch we jumped on the M and rode it till Civic Center. Ramon, Edgar, Goldie, and I were put into a group and rotated the multimedia around. We had the audio microphones and our cameras, and I think Edgar just took some quotes on his notebook. What I really liked about our group was that our chaperones were very attentive. They would tell us, “Hey look its Mayor Gavin Newsom!” and then my group would assemble and quickly remind ourselves of our roles, where to stand and so forth.

I got to interview the Mayor for like 2 minutes. There was another reporter there, and I kept on trying to ask questions, but she kept on asking hers and being a total.....ugh.... but anyway, she finally let me ask my questions. Dolissa saved me when I blanked out and gave me a question but what he said reminded me of an old saying "Hablar sin decir nada" (talking without saying anything) I asked a follow up question an once again he talked without saying anything.

We also got to interview a district supervisor and he wed his friends when we found him. The couple were two men, and they were very adorable. When they were saying their vows, I could see the sparkle of happiness in their eyes. It almost made me cry.