Economy Forum

Today, we went to the Economy Forum. It was about how the economy crisis affect the youths today. We had small groups to discussed how the economy affect our family, friendship, food and education… Even though I am not really affected by the economy crisis, but I knew there are a lot more peers around me are suffering this. And some of them gave us a brief presentation about what they concern or how they feel about it. During the economy forum, we had a couple of young people who already had kids to raise. And all of them only graduated from high school, then went to work because of the living needs. Obviously, they had hard time to go through this, not only they lack of education, but also they need more time to take care of their “family”. At the end of the forum, one of my classmate interview a young mother. What she said proved me again that education is the power, it is kinda like the symbol of the MONEY. The more education you get, the more money you get paid. That’s how the realistic world works.

Speaker day!!

Today, we had a speaker named form somewhere else. And he is a journalist. He basically was talking about the interview stuffs. And I think this is very useful. Because as a journalist, we have to use the stories to convey a message to the people. In order to write an interesting and true story to kinda catch the people’s attention, we need to go out and do some research. And interview is one of the most important procedures. I have learned what we should do before and during the interview. And when we better talk notes and when we better use the voice recorder during the interview. Jim said that if we use the recorder, the interviewee might get a bit nervous. And there are some abbreviations that we can use to take notes during the interview. But he said it is pretty hard and complicate to learn it. And then we had role play in pairs. He gave us some situations, one of us be the journalist and the other one was the interviewee. And Jim use this as an opportunity to see what we did during the interview. He pointed out what is wrong and what we should do when we faced the awkward problems .It is very interesting to watch that. And I think we had fun today.