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Rosemary Melnyk - My Blog
Rosemary Melnyk - My Blog
Just an Introduction
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Hi everyone!

I am a new co-op student here at TIG and for the month of July I will have the privilege of working in the TIG office with the staff. I am about to start my second week here and I thought that I would use my blog to write about the experiences I will go through while I am here.

To start off, last week I'm not going to lie I was really nervous. What if the staff didn't like me? Or what if they didn't want to waste their time on a co-op student who was only going to be around for 15 days? However, as soon as I stepped into the office I knew that I had nothing to worry about. Everyone was really nice and I was personally introduced to everyone who was in that day.

Next, I was given a list of tasks I would be performing and I as my eyes scanned each job I was pleasantly surprised to see that I would be doing actual jobs. Unlike some of the other students in my co-op class who were only responsible for answering the phone and picking up coffee. At that moment I knew that this month was going to change my perspective on the journalism career for the better.

Some of my responsibilities in the past week were to pretty much get super comfortable with the website. Which took me practically all of my first day because I wasn't a TIG member before this opportunity arose. But I'm pretty confident with my navigation skills now. I spent the rest of my week researching companies that TIG had partnered with for various projects that I would be interviewing and coming up with questions to ask the staff for a staff blog I will be writing for.

However, one of the interesting things I experienced was an online training for the Mexico YouthForce Journalists. As I aspire to become a journalist later in my life I found this whole experience eye-opening. During the meeting, I learned that these journalists would be covering various parts of the AIDS Conference in Mexico this summer. They would be able to report on anything that interested them in any media form they chose. Some of the choices they had were writing, podcasting, and filming. The experience these youth journalists are going to receive is incredible. I found myself becoming quite jealous of their position. The meeting definitely left me wanting to go out and find opportunities such as this.

This week, I will be interviewing two staff members on their experience at TIG which will be posted on a staff blog. I also will be interviewing representatives from Peace Child International, Global Youth Action Network, and Youth Voices. These interviews will help relaunch the organizations portion of the TIG website. So be sure to check out that section in the next couple of weeks.

That's all for now, wish me luck!

Rosemary

July 14, 2008 | 12:58 PM Comments  2 comments

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pfogarty Pauline
July 14, 2008 | 5:35 PM
Good luck!
I hope you enjoy every minute of your placement.

I've been to the office a few times and loved the energy in the atmosphere :)

Pauline
adham5555 Adham Tobail
July 14, 2008 | 5:44 PM

its good participation
adham
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