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| The three words that could never be said enough, or heard enough: "I love you."
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| Watch "Primetime" on Thursday, Sept. 14, at 10 p.m. ET for a special hour on cyberbullying hosted by Diane Sawyer to find out. This is the promo that I'm coming out in!! Catch it tonight if you can~ :D | | |
| Im going to be on TV tomorrow!
I was coincidentally picked up by one of the producers at ABC to shoot a promo for a piece on technology and teenage girls. He said he doesnt know when it will be aired but it will be aired tomorrow.
He shot a footage of me and three other intern girls walking down the street in New York.
People were staring and some... obnoxious creeps were trying to meddle in the shooting.
LOL.
I felt like a celebrity or somethin. 
But that's not the only thing that made my day so exciting.
I met this man.
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John Quinones. He's a correspondent for ABC's 20/20.
Let me tell you, this guy is a real case of the American dream, achieved.
He was raised a poor Mexican child in San Antonio, Texas, learning English as a second language when he was six. He used to pick tomatoes and grapefruit on his knees at farms all over the country while his dad worked as a janitor and his mom washed dishes at a posh restaurant.
That's how he lived until he went to college with assistance from a federal funding program. All his stories, all his experiences, and every word he used to tell them seemed to echo his passion for journalism.
I empathized with everything he said from telling stories with a touch of sensitivity to constantly making yourself better.
I'm hearing just the things I need to hear at just the right time, as if someone has been planning this for me all along. Every acquaintance and every relationship I have seem to bring me answers, and more answers to the questions that have and still linger in my mind.
It makes my heart feel so full yet hungry to work even harder.
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| Work at ABC Investigative Unit is very tedious.
I learned how to transcribe interviews and time code video tapes in the past two days of training.
It's pretty simple, but very very time consuming.
But it's okay. I'm grateful for this job.
I realized all the other interns I'm working with are law students. Yes.
And some of them are fresh graduates from Columbia Journalism School, who are a lot older than me.
Hah. And i'm working right along with them at the intern table. :P
It's awesome.
Why do opportunities come all at once? All in one big bang?
I got an email from a lady I know who works at the Wall Street Journal. She recommended me to a reporting assistant position at Dow Jones. It's a full time paid internship! :(
Maybe I shouldn't go to Spain in the spring semester and do more internships. I don't know. All these opportunities...it's hard to let them go when you finally get them.
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| Is it really true that a successful life is often a lonely one?
That's what my fortune cookie said the other day.
I want to live a successful life, but I don't want to be lonely.
Maybe it will take some time to find someone compatible with me.
Maybe it will take me some time to allow someone else into my life.
But I'm faithful that God would send me that special someone when it's the right time.
I got my second interview with ABC today.
It went really well. I spoke to another lady at the I-unit, and I met the head producer there.
Everytime I go, I come back wanting to work there more and more.
It seems like such a great opportunity for me. The whole aura of that newsroom. It's so exciting. It's so tempting. There's nothing more appealing to me than conducting research and exposing the truth to the public.
I want to be able to police society through my words and through my research.
I'm not interested in becoming a star or a celebrity as a glamorous anchorwoman. Not that there's anything wrong with that. There are many respectable anchorwomen in the news.
But I feel like many of them are 'babes.' They're beautiful but how many of them do their jobs well enough to survive the competition? How many of them continue to study the world and report to the public through old age? Very few.
I just want to be truthful to myself and to the public.
So I decided I'll take this unpaid internship at ABC if they offer me the job over the paid internship that's already been offered to me from the Jersey Journal.
It was so difficult to choose because there are so many pros to both jobs that I really couldn't cancel out the cons.
But I'm letting things go.
Although working at the Jersey Journal means I'll have an editor to mentor me and train me in the print news industry, publish articles to be added to my portfolio, and have money to save for Spain in spring...(GAHHH...it's painful for me to even think about this!)
I'm going to think about the possible long term opportunities that an internship at ABC could bring me. And that's all I'll think about.
No regrets, no doubts, no more.
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