Montana is in a state of emergency due to disastrous flooding after a winter of record breaking snowfall, Governor Brian Shweitzer stated last Thursday in an executive order.
http://governor.mt.gov/news/pr.asp?ID=924
People are drowning, being carried away in overflowing rivers and towns are covered in as much as six feet of water, but I'm going in. My editor told me summer had started, I should have asked for his sources.
Currently in a hotel room with my parents who are watching an Animal Planet show on fish. I think it is narrated by Oprah.
We'll see how tomorrow goes. We should be safe, Megan texted me to let me know how to use my brights.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Goodbye Utah, Hello World
In two days time I will drive off into the sunset, literally--bags packed, windows down, Frame and Canvas blasting on the radio, mom in the passengers seat, mini-fridge in the trunk. Destination: Montana, somewhere closer to the Canadian border than a Walmart. I will spend my summer working as a paid reporter/photography intern at the Philips County News and hopefully stay warm. I am very excited to head out and do something completely on my own, but a little nervous too. Ultimately it will be good for my career and good for my soul. I hope that fresh mountain air, melting glaciers, small town gossip and long hours spent writing are just the cure for my broken heart. Also, I hope to run into folk singers, the Pines. Or stars from Degrassi!
If you're interested in following this j-school students first adventure at a real newspaper, please do so. And leave comments, I might get a bit lonely in the woods.
If you're interested in following this j-school students first adventure at a real newspaper, please do so. And leave comments, I might get a bit lonely in the woods.
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