Sadly, this is my last day.
Friday’s are usually slow in The Age Online office, so I wont be published unfortunately. I have, however, been spending my spare time writing an article on my friend Jacob Simkin, who lives in Afghanistan. It’s a 800 word, self-sourced feature article that the editor helped me tweak and refine. As a result it has a special spot in my heart. They were going to publish it today, but to give it a better run they have decided to push its publication back a week. I’m quite excited.
During my time here I have learnt that yes, I do love writing. While I might not want to focus particularly on hard-writing, I loved working on my self-sourced article and I get extreme pleasure out of finishing an article. I also noticed my flaws during the internship that I will try and work on improving. For example, I need to be more thorough during my initial interviews to make sure I get as much information as possible. Sometimes, important facts would be missing and I would have to call people back and get them to answer more questions. I also have to improve my spelling, which I knew was a downfall from the beginning.
I am extremely glad I did this internship, but I am also glad that it is coming to an end. Juggling a full-time uni load and trying to excell within my internship was very, very draining. As it was around the time when everything was due, I completely ran myself into the ground. But it was worth it!
As the editor was leaving the office today, I pulled her aside to say thank-you and what-not. She, in turn, told me that I did a very good job and “definitely pulled [my] weight” and when I was on the field and filed my article over the phone, ”did better than some of those who had been doing it for twenty years”! Needless to say, I was completely ecstatic.
Now back to my normal life!
