Thursday - We had our intern luncheon again, which was super exciting. We got to meet Ted Richardson, one of the photographers for The N&O. He had some really great photographs, and it was tons of fun talking with him. After that, I had a couple phone interviews about local athletes who were invited to the USA Baseball Trials & Training.
Friday - A regular day at the office working on stories. I went through Lexis Nexis training and learned how to search through different newspapers for certain things, etc. It's a really cool tool. It was kind of difficult to use at first because I kept forgetting how to search for certain things, but after a while it's very useful! After the day was over, it was time for the three-day weekend!
Saturday - Me, Gabby, Stephen and his roommate Ed headed to Wrightsville Beach (in North Carolina) for the day! Wrightsville Beach is about two hours away, and the weather was absolutely gorgeous there. We headed out some time in the early afternoon and got there promptly. We first visited my roommate Caroline--who lives 30 minutes away from Wrightsville Beach in Wilmington--and stayed around until the end of the Spain-Portugal match. We talked a lot and had a lot of cookies before we got up to leave. The traffic was ridiculous around the beach, and parking was quite an ordeal. We got lucky, however! We turned into one of the beach access alleys, and a man and his wife who were about to leave gave us their parking ticket--a day pass--so we didn't have to pay since it expired at 6pm and the meters stopped working then. We hung out at the beach for a long time playing in the water and tanning (the beach was super crowded!!). After, we walked along toward downtown (I guess?) and went into Wings. For those of you who don't have Wings--like me!--it's basically this HUGE store that sells everything you can ever need by the beach. They had a bunch of souvenir t-shirts, sweaters, dresses, hats, sunglasses, boogie boards, sunscreen, floaties, even hermit crabs!! AND they had a temporary tattoo artist (the tattoo is temporary, not the artist), and I got a lovely "Los Angeles Lakers" tattoo. I felt super cool, hahah. After, we grabbed dinner at Kohl's Burgers & Custard. They're known for their custard, and they definitely lived up to my expectations. It was absolutely delicious!! It made me wish I had gotten another one--and that's saying a lot for someone who normally doesn't have dessert. After, we drove around trying to find someplace to stay that wasn't filled, but it was impossible, so we called it a night and all headed back, exhausted but glad. Now, pictures (in no particular order)! PS, gorgeous weather--like 70s-80s?!
On the bridge toward the beach; view from the car!
Sunday - Met up with Stephen around lunchtime and made some chicken nuggets at the apartment then headed out to play tennis. I hadn't played in a super long time, but it was still fun running around in the sun. After that, we headed to Duke and went swimming with his friend Kyle in the swimming pool on Central Campus. The layout of the pool was really interesting. It was 3&1/2 feet on both ends and five feet in the middle. Half of the pool was separated into lanes and the other half was open swim. The sun started going down when we got there, but the weather was still nice enough to swim. After, we all hung around at the guys' (Stephen lives with 4 other guys for the summer) apartment for a while. Then, we decided to go with a very "American" meal for Fourth of July and went to Red Robin. I lovee Red Robin! It was Kyle & Ed's first time there, and we all ended up eating a bunch. We ended up seeing half of the fireworks from the Durham Bulls park on the way back to the apartment, but we couldn't get to the park in time since they ended pretty quickly. From there, I was going to meet up with Gabby since her friends were all hanging out, but I was kind of pooped for the weekend so I headed back to Raleigh.
Monday - I don't really remember what I did. I feel like it was a lot of sleeping, though. Oh, I did have three stories published Monday, though. Oh, and I downloaded Kindle for Android to my phone and have been reading Sister Carrie. I'm about halfway done, I think, and it's a really great book. I'm not sure what I'll be reading next, but having eBooks on my phone is really encouraging me to read again. It's great! And sorry for the random thoughts, but another thing, I saw the Chik-Fil-A cow when I went in to grab something to eat. Look!
Tuesday - Work was the usual. (I don't really remember the specifics of it). I headed to Durham in the afternoon, and since it was the first day of Second Session summer classes, they were having free food on Central Campus. They had delicious burgers and hot dogs with Chili and fresh lemonade/sweet tea/unsweetened tea. They even had those aluminum (I think?) water bottles, so that's definitely helpful. After, Stephen and I went to the gym, and we played a little bit of basketball. Then, I ran a mile on the ellipticals and rowed 2,500 meters on the machine. I felt very refreshed and healthy. Later, we met up with two friends to try out this bubble tea place called Kim-Son Vietnamese Restaurant. The drinks were pretty good, but the bubbles were a bit on the squishy end, so that was kind of disappointing. Overall, though, a good day.
Wednesday - Worked on stories as usual then drove out to interview people for an assignment. The office was pretty empty since a lot of the reporters are on vacation right now and the other intern was sick. Since my apartment had a slight stale cigarette smell when I moved in, I finally contacted the maintenance man and he sent someone to clean out the papartment. I went back in the afternoon, and it smelled fresh. I sprayed Hawaiian Breeze and a Berry-smelling spray, and the place was improved by 200%.
Thursday - Worked on a couple stories that are coming out tomorrow. I can't believe tomorrow's Friday! My editor told me to take tomorrow off since I'm going to be covering a couple events on Sunday, so I'll probably do that. We had another intern luncheon today, and we had a photographer and a reporter come in to talk about what it's like being a foreign corrsepondent. They had some amazing stories and pictures about their journeys in Haiti, Afghanistan and New Orleans, and we ended up listening to them for two hours without noticing that we hadn't eaten yet. After the talk, I worked on the stories again before heading out for the evening. Now, I'm off to volunteer at Family Day at the Nasher Museum of Art on Duke's campus.
Until next week... !
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment