Week 7

I am having a really good week! It was harder than usual to say goodbye to my family and come back to an empty apartment. I woke up Monday with a bad attitude and just said a little prayer that God would change that. My work here isn't done and I want to continue to be excited about this experience. I don't want to wish any of this away, but instead I want to take advantage of every moment which means there's no time for a bad attitude :) God has answered my prayers this week though and I have had a blast!

Monday: A few of us interns were given the task of researching and making calls. With the record-high temperatures this week, many of the stories are heat related. We split up the nearby counties and called different summer kids programs, clubs, sports teams, etc. to see what changes they would be making in their schedule during the hot week. It was nice to be doing something that I know the station appreciates. Later in the day a reporter approached me and asked if I would go out on a story with her. She was going solo and it felt good that she sought me out because she needed an extra hand. The story we were covering was about the Cathedral high valedictorian who was drinking with some friends and dove off a dock at Geist Resevoire where the water was only 3 feet deep. This kid was planning on attending Duke in the fall and now is facing a life as a quadriplegic. We did a few interviews and I was able to ask questions and then we got some footage. I came back and wrote a script for a package and the reporter said she could look over it tonight, so I'm waiting on her feedback before editing.

Tuesday: I went with Dave who is one of my favorite reporters. Dave has been at WISH for 30 years and he also anchors the noon and 5:00 pm news. He was covering a story on kids and gun safety. We went to a gun shop and met some pretty interesting guys. Dave already knew them all, but they were very excited to meet me. One man tried selling me a pink pistol! I got to do a standup in the store which was intimidating since I had quite the audience, but all the men cheered when I finished so it must not have been too bad. After lunch with Dr. King and Dr. Perry, I worked on my script some more and wrote a little for the web.

Today has been a productive day so far. I helped make more calls to auto dealers on how cars were responding to the heat and then I wrote 2 web stories:

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/crime/police-indy-man-sent-and-received-child-porn

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/south_central/bargersville-water-grass-on-schedule

Later today I am going to a pool where they are doing more on the heat. It will be roasting outside, but it is always nice to get out for a little bit. I'm going with a reporter that I have never worked with so it will be fun to get to know him and his reporting style better!