Week 10 Ivansek
Green Medicine Event
My last journal entry I would like to talk about my thoughts about the project and what I got out of it as a whole. First off when I first read about the war project in the syllabus I thought it would be easy where we only interview our veteran one time and that was it. When I got to class the first day and heard about the war project I thought this is going to be so hard and a lot of work. I wondered how I was going to fit in all the work of my other classes with this project. I was really nervous to interview my veteran for the first time. My original veteran I was assigned to never wrote me back so I was paired up with a different veteran and basically got thrown into the interview without warning. In all honesty I think this helped me out because I didn’t have a lot of time to sit and think about how nervous I was. I just had to come up with questions fast and just dive in headfirst and go with whatever came up. I feel like I am walking away with so much from this project personally and as a journalist. First of all you don’t really realize what these veterans go through until you hear their stories from them personally. Sure you can read a story in a book or a magazine but you don’t get the real emotions that you get when they are sitting right across from you. This war project made me enjoy writing more and it really is a neat thing to listen to a person’s story. I learned how to use many different multimedia programs that were key to getting these projects complete. It honestly felt more like a job than school most days. When I sit down and think about how many words I transcribe, the story final story I wrote, the story behind the story and all the journal entries I can’t believe how much words that was all together. All together it was over 12,000 words. I am really proud of myself for being able to complete this project with all the workloads of other classes and having a job. I went to the Green Medicine event, a story Grace's previous class worked on. and thought it was neat. I am really looking forward to the event that is held to show everyone our hard work on the project and our veterans stories.
