Friends with the Phones

"I can use the phone, I swear." I told myself, driving into the car park.

I arrived at 9am, as usual, and began by finishing up some of my stories from last week. The phone didn't ring at all in the morning, so I think somebody out there granted a wish for me!
My supervisor came in at 10am, and I was occupied with my new stories to work on.
After I finished that, she gave me a few tasks to do. I sorted forms and organised receipts.
My boss then gave me another story to edit and write up, and this took some time because I had to do some research in order to edit it fully.
After that, my boss selected two of my stories and said that he might print them in next week's paper. I am very excited!
Katie and I went for lunch at 1pm, and we went back to work at 2pm.
I did some more office jobs for my supervisor, like sticking addresses onto envelopes and sticking stamps on them.
My boss then gave me a story to do. I had no hard copy to go with - just a picture, and a name. I had to use the phones. On my own. For an article. I was shaking the whole way up the corridor.I had to ring the Leixlip GAA club's receptionist and obtain information from her and get a number for somebody else involved in the club.

I rang the receptionist, and...it was ok! She gave me the phone number for somebody else in the club and I rang them and asked them some questions, then I rang someone else...and someone else... It was all a big, friendly, easy-going chain reaction. My boss knows very well that I hate the phone, so I think he gave it to me as a challenge.
Well challenge accepted and completed, sir!

I wrote up the story before 5pm, and printed it for proof reading by my media supervisor.

I was so tired that I wanted to just get home and sleep! It's such a long day being a journalist!

See you next week!

I'm a Liffey Champion Champ

Wednesday, 2nd October.
So for my first Work Experience placement I went to the Liffey Champion Newspaper Offices in Leixlip. I arrived at 9am and the first task I was given was to answer the phones and take messages for my supervisor. I didn't enjoy this, as people were asking me questions that I had no ideas how to answer, because I knew nothing about the company yet. When my supervisor arrived at 10am, she gave me some office tasks to carry out. At 12pm, Katie and I went for our lunch break down the town and we found a newsagents. We bought a few sweets and walked back up to the office to eat them, along with my packed lunch.
At 1pm, I did more office tasks, and then my Boss had given both Katie and I stories to write. I wrote an article about Toastmasters in Maynooth and another one about a Racing event.
I was doing jobs for people in the office like sending around messages, and organizing files.
Wednesday is printing day for the newspaper, so everyone is under pressure to meet the 2pm deadline that is set.
Luckily, I wasn't in the newsroom for most of the time, I was in the office. So I wasn't in the war-zone of smashing keyboards and printing stories.
I ended up getting my supervisor to answer as many calls as possible, because I just hate answering the phones!
I left at 5pm, and I was so tired!
Next week, I hope to get more writing tasks.

Bye for now.