Lede's

Wow, at this very moment I am madly in love with Journalism and feeling pretty darn good about myself.

We had to write a lede (or lead), which is the first sentence of a story used to capture the readers attention, for News Writing. Some people received "F"s but not me! I got an A+/100, V(ery) Good!

Yes! Touchdown! Time for a happy dance! (I haven't done one of these for a while...)

Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh uh huh uh huh! Woo! Ya!

Here's my A+ winning lede:

Two 12-year-old girls on their way home from CPR class yesterday revived their godmother, who was choking on a piece of meat at a cafe on West Broad Street.

Now don't you want to know more? I certainly do...

This was an awesome confidence booster for me. I've been worried that I wasn't going to be any good at this journalism thing and then all hope would be lost, etc, etc. Now I know that I at least have a chance and might actually be good.

Hurray for "A"s! And "+"s! ; )

First Week

I told you I would give an update on my first week of classes so here it is.

Good times.

I am really enjoying my classes, even Elementary Programming. Our first project for that class is going to be to re-create a scene from our favorite animated movie. I'm either going to do Finding Nemo or Madagascar. I haven't officially decided yet.

News Writing is AWESOME! Hopefully by the end of this semester I will be writing some real newspaper articles. Anything I write this semester has a possibility of being published in the school's paper, the Collegian, so we'll see.

American Lit is going well. My professor brought is coffee on Friday which made my favorite English professor of all time. He's also my academic adviser so I've known him for a few months. The readings are not too long and I've been enjoying most of them. I'll have some good quotes later.

Fundamentals of Music was also good. I'm learning new things yet I still know enough to have it not be difficult. Or at least, extremely difficult. And I signed up for piano lessons with my professor! I'm finally going to learn how to play the piano! Yeah!

And now I am officially stoked about my future as a Journalist. I spoke with my Colloquium professor on Friday and mentioned that I wanted to be an International Correspondent of some kind. I also mentioned my time in Japan and he told me about a connection he has with a paper there, etc. I actually feel like being a Journalist is a plausible reality and it makes me happy!

Yeah school! (Don't get used to hearing that, its only the first week.)