24/05/10 - My first day at my internship and my first day of classes. I got my first assignment for Wednesday, and I'll be covering the torch relay that'll happen before the Olympics! I'm really nervous, but pretty excited. Class was nice because our professor combined the two and talked about what we'd be doing and stuff like that.
25/05/10 - First full day at the internship. It was interesting because I've been trying to learn all of the different aspects of what they do at the Associate Press. They use a system that I've never heard of before, and there is a lot that goes into it. I'm also starting to learn how to create a list of all of the stories for the day. Hopefully I'll be able to pick it up quickly.
26/05/10 - Today is the day! It's the very first assingment I've gotten with the Associated Press. I went straight to the event because it started only a little bit after I would have to go to the office. I was really nervous that I wouldn't be able to find the place, but I just followed some of the reporters. I actually met an Olympic reporter from the Daily Telegraph. She was incredibly nice and I was really exciting when she started to talk about plans that she had for covering the Olympics and it sounds really interesting and I really want to get involved. The event was really cool. There was a gymnastics event that ended with the gymnests forming a torch. I was able to interview the Sports and Olympics Minister and the head of the organizing committee, so the big-wigs of the Olympics!
When I got back to the office, it was just after 1:00, so I wrote it and had my supervisor edit it. One of my co-workers was surprised how fast I was able to write it, but that's the Missouri method for you! Here's a link to the article that was in Yahoo News. But it was also online at USA Today's website.
27/05/10 - I had a half day at work today, and it was the first day of our British Life and Culture class. The class sounds interesting, but we will see. There is a lot of work that our teacher is expecting of us. And we found out that the weekend that almost everyone is traveling, is the Friday that we're sheduled to visit Parliament. We weren't happy with the fact that no one told us before that class to not schedule anything on that Friday because they knew this before we got to London. Our teacher said that she'll try to see if there's a different time we can go, but Parliament tells us when we can come. I'm sad, because that would be really cool to see, but all we can hope for is that we can go a different time.
28/05/10 - Michelle and I went to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guard. It was incredibly crowded with tourists, but we were able to get a decent view because we befriended some British people that were there. I thought that it was really cool, and the guard's band played Sweet Caroline, the theme to Jurassic Park, and I'm a Believer. There wasn't much to the ceremony, so I can see why people think that it's overrated, but it'd something that you have to do while in London. After the ceremony, we wandered around. It was fun because we found the Sherlock Holmes pub where we had spotted dick and chips. Spotted dick is like a raisin cake with pudding. It's interesting and I'm glad that I tried something very British, but I'm not going to have it again. After our snack, we walked along the river towards Parliament and Big Ben. It was cool to see them up close a personal and see different angles on them. We went on the bridge near both sites, so that was cool to see too.
29/05/10 - It was rather raining today, so our flat decided it would be a good museum day. We decided on the Tate Modern. I'm not big into modern art, but I thought it would still be cool to see. When we were trying to find it, we ran across the Borough Market. It had tons of fresh food that we were able to try. There were so many different stalls with delicious looking food. After wandering our way through the market, we went to the Tate. Modern art is definitely different, but I enjoyed the photographs that it displayed. It was very interesting to see.
'Til next week.
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