All through middle school, I was trying to find a group, a place that I belong. I wasn’t a good singer, had difficulty just holding the flute, was an average student and definitely was not athletic. The first year of high school, I vowed to myself that I would become involved in school someway or another.
I started by joining a few clubs. Within a couple a months, I realized that I had no interest in those clubs, so I was back at square one. Sophomore year, I originally decided to be in Journalism One because I just needed to fill out my schedule. Turned out to be one of the best decision I’ve made in my high school career.
I wanted to become a photographer but my dreams were crushed when Mr. Mallett assigned me to take some pictures of PE. Well, let’s just say that the pictures were a blurry mess. When Mr. Mallett assigned us to write stories, it grew on me.
I remember Mr. Mallett would write ‘awesome’ or ‘good story’ on my stories. Not going to lie. I felt pretty amazing inside when I saw those comments in red with his nice handwriting.
The first couple of months of newspaper, I was really frustrated because nothing I was writing was getting posted online. I remember my first story that got posted was Fall Television Premiere. I’ll post a link in case you really want to read it.
Being on the newspaper staff for two years, I’ve learned some things:
- Writing stories, most of the time, is easy but requires a lot of time.
- People automatically think that I’m a good writer, when honestly, writing is still one of my weakness.
- It is possible to write a story without any ‘is’, hard but possible. (Ignore the fact that this blog has several ‘is’).
- If you want Mr. Mallett to do something, you have to tell him several times or else he will forget.
Honestly, I could type a long story and overwhelm you with my feelings over this publication, but I wanted to keep my last blog short and to the point. My experience being on the newspaper staff has been amazing and I would recommend to anyone to take it.
