2nd day at internship (Part 1)

While it might sound strange, I am pretty sure I was more nervous on my second day of interning then I was on my first!

My mentor Isis was not in on that day and so I knew I would be flying solo with any decision I had to make. I had received an email from Isis on Thursday detailing what my story I had to complete the following day. I had to conduct an interview with local Townsville Brass Broadway, a local hip hop artist Vixed Versa and another vocalist Ebony Buckle. I also had to book photo sessions for each interviewee.

As soon as I read the email I started to get anxious. In an attempt to settle my nervous I read through the relevant bio, poster and media releases Isis had attach to her email. I then went about plotting what questions I was going to ask. Thankfully I had already decided on what I was going to do with the Ebony Buckle interview last week so that part was done. After setting my alarm for 7:30 I went to bed Thursday night with butterfly in my stomach that would not settle. What if the interview only goes for 5 minutes and I can’t flesh out the story to make 300 or 400 words? What if I conduct the interviews but run out of time to write them? Consequently I then started to plan how I was going to use my 7.5 hrs. Ok first I will interview Townsville Broadway type up the story and interview hip hop artist before lunch, then I will complete the other stories and interviews in the afternoon. Or maybe blah blah blah blah YOUR CRAZY!!!


Won’t you know it that I woke up in the morning, slightly disorientated, rolled over to go back to sleep before the alarm in my brain screamed “You have your internship today!” I looked at my phone and realised it was 8:00! I must have woken up at 7:30 because of my alarm turned it off and gone back to sleep. I have no recollection of this but I assume this is what happened. I flung myself out of bed, through on my clothes (which I had picked out the night before thank god!) and sprinted around the house in a made panic getting ready. I sculled my coffee with the same enthusiasm people reserve for Jagerbombs on their 21st Birthday. I arrived at the Bulletin 15 minutes early...

And thank God for that because it took 15 minutes and the help of head feature editor to log me into the computer…because I had left caps lock on the entire time….idiot…. I then realised that the telephone recording device was no-where to be found, so I then had to go ask the chief of staff if I could burrow hers. You would think that all this opportunities to talk with staff members would result in me remembering their names. Nope, haven’t got a bloody clue…sorry. As you can see I have already written 550 words about my second day interning and I haven’t even gotten to the part where I actual do some work.