What is it like to be a journalist?!
What is it like to be a journalist?!
„Journalism is really good, you are seeing the other workshops all the time.” This is one of the most heard sentences in our ROTA-Week. Well it is… Heleen and Tim are the reporters for the foodworkshop, and they are always out. Last days they even ate there. Well, we did.
As a journalist you have to be in the field. You have to be where the action is. You have to be ready at all times. There is no time to have a party, there is no time not to have pen and paper with you, and there is no time to have a decent lunch.
It is not as bad as I just described, if you want to call that bad... I had lunch in the food workshop, a really good lunch and I had the lunch the teachers had. There are not many people who can say that. Of course, we will have to judge what the workshops do, so we have to try the food. We even played table tennis; we have to try what they can do in their free time.
As I already said, as a journalist you have to be in the field. This is the first time I am actually sitting on a chair for longer than 30 minutes. Not everybody agrees with me, every time I entered, the journalists were working on their pieces. Of course, these pieces are very important, and I am writing a piece too, but you will have to know what to write about before you can actually start writing.
Well to be honest, I just left. I left while I was writing this piece. I went out to check the music group that was practising outside. The one journalist responsible for that workshop was out, so I took her place and made photos. One has to be flexible, a thing I left out in the list…
And again, you have to be in the field.
Well enough about what I think; let’s discuss the workshop. We were divided into five groups. (We have 10 people, so that division was easily made.) One group is responsible for the movie made about the entire project. The other four got two workshops to write about. Mine are food and journalism; which is the reason why I am writing this piece.
At this moment, it is very calm. A real journalist just entered, she was there to get an interview with one of our journalists. She had a very good first question. Let me describe the situation: The “real” journalist already had an interview with a Dutch girl, so the English girl in our workshop proposed to do an interview. She said: “I’m English.” The journalist replied: “Ok, great. So where are you from?”
We just had a photo with all the students in ROTA, in front of the very famous ROTA-sign, which points to all the cities involved in the project.
I think that will do for now, but there is more to come!
Tim
Journalist
And of course, I could not have done this without Heleen!