(From L-R) Corey, Myself, special guest Kyle, Denis, and Nick discuss important issues before recording the soon to be legendary Total Domination podcast, episode nine.
In news completely unrelated to the above image, a good friend of mine whom I graduated with started freelancing at the same time at a different newspaper close by where my paper is at. We have stayed it touch throughout this time, and she has always kept me up to date with what is going on in her life.
Not too long ago she called me with the news that she is moving up to staff, of a magazine published by the same people who published the newspaper she freelanced for. "That is amazing, congrats!", was my response.
Well, it turns out that is a good idea to stay in touch with friends, as she is going to have me start freelancing there, as she she is going to recommend me. The best part about it is that there is a possibility of getting moved to up to staff, much like she did; since they are looking to expand papers and such.
That thought has me excited. I can't wait till I have a full time job in this industry. I am looking forward to moving into a new apartment and to start my 'life'. My only concern about the whole situation is the fact that at this other paper I have to write the stories that go with my photographs. To most people, this is not a big concern, but look at who is writing this. Or, look at the writing quality of this blog. Not the greatest, eh?
I am going to be honest with you fellow readers, I am not the best writer out there. Thus, I am a bit nervous about have to type out articles. From my first days of school, I always struggled with English. In fact, I just struggled with school in general. I was always behind in most subjects in school. I was usually lost in science, a week behind in math, and could never remember dates in history class. But the class that I struggled with the most was English.
I could never spell words correctly. Spelling tests were the worst thing ever for me as a child. I could be wrong here, but I am pretty sure I never passed a spelling test while in grade school or jr. high. Luckily,most of my teachers were human, and thus had hearts. They realized that I was honestly trying my hardest, but I just struggled with it. Thus they always gave me ways to make up credit, by doing extra assignments or whatever, thus I would alwasys end up with a o.k. grade. Going back to grade school, I also apparently could not read at the same level as the rest of my grade, as I recall being in a 'special' reading class. I would have to leave my normal class every day (I think...) and go to a special room where we we would work on our reading skills. If anything, that might be an area that I have imporved at, as I love to read books now.
Enough of this rant, I am just trying saying I am nervous to start writing articles for mass consumption. I am kind of excited at the thought of doing so, but at the same time I just invision myself not knowing what to write. My friends were always amazed to hear that I never took the 2 years of 'required' foriegn laguage classes. What they never realized was you could either take 2 years of French or Spanish, or you could take art classes. Obviously I took the art classes. To sum this post up, many different people would ask me why I didn't take a foreign language class. I would always reply: "I have enough trouble with this language".
And that is the honest truth.
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