Luz Elena Hernandez Day 2

Today is day two in BAMMA. It doesnt feel like its the second day it actually feels like weve been here for a long time now. Today was a pretty cool day. We began contacting people for our stories. The story that im writing about is teen pregnancies so i had to contact organizations that help pregnant teens during and after their pregnancies. I was so nervouse when i had to start calling poeple. I honestly hate having to talk strangers on the phone. I dont mean strangers but i just hate having to call people and ask them for help and information because it feels so impersonal. To me its one of the worst things to do that i can think of. I rather have the person in front of me so i can actually talk to them and get all the information that i need. What made me more nervouse was that my editor Amanda was next to me. I felt more nervouse because I didnt want to say the wrong thing but in the end it was good that she was there with me because she helped me ask more questions. The poeple that i talked to were really nice and they gave me alot of information. Still the main person that im trying to contact still hasnt called me back and its kind of frustrating because i dont want to miss the deadline of the first draft on friday. Hopefully she ill call me back soon. Another thing we did today was making the video about our partners. It was really cool taking all the videos that we took and making it into a movie. Before i wanted to be a journalist i wanted to be a movie director so it was really interesting to see how journalism has film in it because making videos is something i like to do. I kinda wish i had more time to finish my video, i thought my video was good but i wish i had more time because then i could have added smoother transitions and made it alot better. But oh well theres always next time. The photography class was also interesting. It was interesting because theres so much you need to know about taking a picture. Before i would just take pictures and not even think about it but theres so much more to taking a picture like aperture and depth. It kinda made me think back to film because sometimes when i look at something i see it in a camera angle or a pay close attention to the lighting and now hopefully i can integrate it into photography. The time with the guest speaker (Jamilah) was actually shorter than i thought. I thought it was really cool that sProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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was so young because i feel that because shes a young she can relate a lot to us. I dont really know how to explain it but yea. Umm im kind of excited to just go back to our dorms and rest. After today and yesterday im starting to feel kind of tired and i just want to go to bed.