It’s day four and I feel like the unhealthy food is getting to me. I think I’m a bit homesick but, then again. I’m actually pretty happy.
Today, we ate then got right to work. I interviewed Tim McArthur, the founder of Beautiful LI. I spoke to him and genuinely realized that people are trying to do something about the litter problem.
I wonder if they’re doing anything for Hempstead. I wanted to ask, but I was running out of time. He was really nice and seemed to genuinely care about Long Island.
Working on the Keep Long Island Beautiful article has motivated me to go home and go find some volunteer work somewhere. I feel like my friends and I would have a lot of fun cleaning up, since I’ve done a project on Long Beach and how much trash is there.
Today I woke up at 8:03 am. We had a late start, but it was only 15 minutes later. I’m not complaining, because if it wasn’t 15 minutes I’d be cooked fish.
The breakfast was honestly decent — you can’t go wrong with tater tots and eggs. Yum.
After eating, we did the news reporter show practice. That was the moment I realized that I hate being on camera. I’d never consider being an anchor or news reporter or reporter in general.
I think I’d enjoy being behind the scenes. But other than that, it was fun to control things behind the scenes. I wish I would’ve been the cameraman at some point.
After lunch, we went to the newsroom and began working on our projects. I interviewed Robyn Silvertri, then postponed an interview with Tim McArthur.
Both of them are very kind, I’m extremely glad they gave me a chance to interview them and hopefully
Today was filled with writing emails, researching, and things that make me hungry and sleepy. It feels like I’m back in AP Seminar, researching the most random things and then trying to make them sound like they sense.
I think journalism is something I’d pursue as a career; I don’t like being on camera, though. I’d most likely be the one recording. I’m a big photography fan.
I enjoyed messing with professional cameras. I’m quite excited to buy one myself when I do get a job.
One thing I overly enjoyed was the mac and cheese. It was a life-changing, adrenaline-pumping, divine substance that made me tear up because it was totally just so amazing.
I’m excited for the Ducks game and the news thing going on, but I’m most excited for the photography that could come up.
My first day at the Greene Institute was very confusing, but definitely the most interesting event of this summer. Moving into a dorm that I’ve never seen before is anxiety-inducing and nerve-wracking, but it was really fun in a way.
Finding the dorm was the hardest part. My aunt took at least 10 loops before my friend, Angie, sent me her location. Other than that, everything has been nice. Learning how to type in the Greene Gazette website was nice; the small tutorial Frank gave was easy, and he made a reference to Superman/Clark Kent. That lowkey made my day.
These Apple computers they’re letting us use are really nice and seem very fancy.
The computer at my work station. Yennifer Soriano/Greene Team, July 26
Other then that, the food we ate wasn’t the best, but the ice cream was overly good. I accidentally put too much, and my friend Kayci did the same, which ended with us throwing out the ice cream we didn’t get to finish.
When I got to my dorm, I realized I had no roommate. Well, at least in my own room. There’s these two sweet girls who are in the room next to me; my first conversation with them was extremely awkward.
I had to ask if they knew how to turn on the shower. Which to me, was honestly embarrassing in a way. I asked them, then they tried and realized it didn’t work for them either. I asked these three sweet girls and noticed they were also looking for an adult, so right after that I went back and asked my friend Angie.
She tried to turn her own bathrooms shower on and ended up getting herself wet, falling onto the floor along with turning the shower on which was really funny.
Besides that small dilemma, I’m glad I’ve gotten out of my comfort zone to meet new people. Hopefully it’ll get better as the week goes by.
I woke up at five in the morning with the need to go back to bed, but instead, I decided to stay up for an hour and read what was happening in my community.
I lied. I’d never do that, but today I realized how much journalism is the glue in a community. Newspapers aren’t something you see very often, but inside of Hempstead High School, there is a newspaper club. One of the speakers who came today told us about how newspaper outlets were dying and how some communities don’t have news outlets.
That reminded me of News 12, which tells us literally everything going on inside Hempstead. It reminded me of how lucky I am; having an opportunity like that is necessary to feel some weird connection with your community.
All of that to say the speakers that came in today have actually affected my perspective on journalism.
The first speaker had told us about her life and how she was practically born into the media literacy side of the world. She told us that she had went through several historical moments that needed a journalist, which opened my mind alot.
Imagine if there were no journalists during 9/11, or during wars ongoing today, or so many other historical events. People wouldn’t know ANYTHING.
But either way, my second day was nice. The food was rather average, nothing life-changing. Its nice to have a selection. I don’t have any thoughts besides that, the food wasn’t really something to note.
The fries were really good, but then again you can’t really mess up fries. Same with the pasta.
Other then the food, I’m forever grateful I get to be here and have this opportunity as its extremely fun to meet these new people and meet these journalists.
