Go Teamwork

What a hectic day. I had been keeping my eyes and ears open looking for a story all week. But nothing of interest really popped up. So I was still searching Wednesday night when I just passed out at like nine, I guess from sleep deprivation, and didn’t wake up until ten this morning. So I was kind of panicked when I did get up. I read the paper and looked online and nothing really seemed like a good idea. So at 12 I realized I was drowning and headed over to professor Nicholson’s office to throw up a flare. We couldn’t come up with much. But Jon was doing a story about homecoming’s impact on the community to lead our show so I decided with the help of the professor to go off that. I walked over in the rain to the Sheraton and spoke to the manager and asked him about the type of affect homecoming will have on business. I then decided to find some alums who were back from homecoming and talk to them. (They were easy to spot. One of the guys I talked to was wearing a bright orange Otto shirt and wearing a hat that said ‘Syracuse Alumni’). I then hustled back and with the help of my group and professor Nicholson got my story out. Surprisingly that’s actually when the real panic started. We were really close to going on air, and for some reason Jon and I were really struggling to put my wrap onto cart. It just wouldn’t work. So I was told if it didn’t work I would have to ad-lib my wrap live on air without the sound bites. Yikes. This is when my heart started beating faster. I calmed down a little bit in the booth when Nicholson explained how we could get through it. But right then our Jonny on the spot turned up. Jon got the wrap on to cart with like a minute to spare. Faith did a great job reading the script. Even if the end wasn’t that smooth I’m still proud of my group. We all worked really hard and helped each other to get all of this done. Afterwards we discussed and decided we were all bummed we weren’t going to be working together anymore. But it’s all good, next week I work with Maura, AJ and Amy and I’m looking forward to that as well.