This is the coolest thing

I am having a blast. This internship is sooooo cool. Dave has hooked me up. WFTV is great. Heres a rundown of my last 5 days. Thursday, I spent at NASA. see the pics. I got extremely close to the orbiter. It as surreal. I am still in awe. I also have about 1 hour of HD footage of it. Friday i learned how to RC the news... so i know how to control the live shots. Sat... sick and alittle homesick. Sunday i spent the day at Cocoa beach. Tom and I went, and now I have been offically gay bashed. Two larger black males, started hollering at us " homo--- go home|" I am not gay, neither is Tom... It was something I thought would never happen.

Now on to monday... I had a great day at work. I worked with new P2 cameras. I got set up with more gear. Then had dinner at Dave's. We had a great BBQ, i got some great advice on how to get in, in the newsroom. Dave also showed me a new program... copypod. THIS IS GREAT. if you have an ipod, you must get this program. its a way to get your music backed up, in case it dies... or maybe share music with other computers... only if you own them..... And today...

I got to shoot. I was officaly a WFTV photographer... It was AWESOME I cut a PKG, fully tracked and shot and built from the ground up by me... yah yours truly.... I CUT A PKG for a top 20 market, which aired... on the 6pm news... in 45 min... I AM SOOOOOO excited about it. its very important to me... and not all interns get to shoot, nor get to edit, or get to run the live shot.... OAHHHHHHHH its great.

so I am having a great time in orlando.
keep in touch.

andy

More nasa magic!

Almost too cool! but i was there! o man!

Nasa baby!

Oh what a wonderful day!

week one is over.

I am really enjoying my trip so far. Its weird to think it has been a week so far. wow. Today was really cool at the station. I worked on my archive project. Lots of cool old footage. THen about noon i went to home depot with dave, we had to get parts for IE 9, thats one of the live trucks. We got some springs, so the cables on a laptop would stop getting mashed up. These trucks are soo cool. They are a little lest powerful then the missoula truck, but the have some other cool features, like you can edit on them. i have learned soo much. Ihave some great ideas to bring back to KPAX in missoula. its nice not haveing to get school work done. But i do miss missoula. The weather there looks great. I am missing the best weather of the year, but hey its nice here, just different. This evening was really nice, not too hot or humid. I am going to nasa tommorow really early, i can't wait. ITS a dream come true. NOW we all have to hope for a mid july launch, so i can watch the thing go up... WOW i can't imagine how cool that would be. So i have too go to bed, cuz its wheels up at 6am. so comment if you want.
Thanks whit for the last one. I love your guts too.
-aa--

My first live shot in florida!

here in orlando

Well i am the humid south now. What a trip. the plane ride was interesting as always and the first night was a blur. I was soo tired. But I am here and settled in. My dorm is ugly and prision like but i guess its home. WFTV is awesome. So much geek stuff sooo little time. My first few days have been filled with learing the layout of such a giant station, and it doesn't help that they are remodeling the entire infrastructure, so once I get a hang of it, it will be different. But wow... they have soo many resources at their disospal. Sky witness, real time recording servers, 9 live trucks... its amazing. Dave is great, what an awesome role model. I have learned so much and have only been there about 3 days. Thanks ray. Orlando itself is a bit too much for me. the heat is killer, and humid is not my thing. I am starting to get better, but wow. Not montana weather thats for sure.

On friday night i met some interns from lockhead martin who are staying in the same dorm buiding as i, they are pretty cool. I was sooo excited to meet someone, i was going stir crazy in my room. So we all went to Cocoa Beach yesterday(sat) that was cool. the weather was good, not too hot, and sunny. it was cloudy. The water was awesome. it was way warmer than seaside/cannon beach last summer. But not as pretty or as special. - no megs- we had a good time at cocoa and left just in time. a huge storm rolled in, and knocked out power, and blew stuff over, so that was luck.

so far my trip has been great. i don't have internet in my room yet so posts will be sparse. But hopefully soon.

off to find the student union....

andy

One week left until i

One week left until i change my look on my life. orlando will be a huge step. not sure which direction? but hey classes are done. its great! -aa

Ah work!

Orlando or bust.

Here is my most recent adventure. Orlando for the summer. I am heading out on wednesday the 18th.. I am very excited. I will be working for WFTV. Thats what occupys my mind at the moment.

In the last two months alot has happend. First, School is done. I finished on monday. German final was killer. But i am done. hopefully i passed. Made in Montana turned out to be awesome. Meghan and I are in a happy place. the land of molassis. our own fantasy world where didders dragon and the princess live happily with sweetpeas and monsters. Its a great way to imganine what our world could be without all the hussle and bustle of the real world. I won two other scholarships.. and went to vegas. All i can say about that is THANK YOU. Thank you to the donors, thank you to the commitees and thank you to my dad. who has helped me soo much int he last 3 months get everything done for the scholarships and adcomp. I need to go to work. so off to turn the lights on. Its sweeps.

I will keep a on going post of my journey south. Through pictures, and texts. which i just linked to my phone.
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My vegas adventure!