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| Me in front of a Hobbit hole. |
Many people have asked about my
trip abroad to New Zealand and Australia. For those of you who don’t know, I
spent three weeks in New Zealand with Azusa Pacific, and then vacationed after
for 11 days in Australia. I promised I would keep up the blog and post a lot of
photos, but of course, as it always does, time became an issue. Additionally, I
found that I didn’t have a lot of good things to say.
My communication studies
internship was not what I expected, to say the least. Not only did I have to
cross the lines from journalism into public relations, which I soon realized
why so many journalists disliked it, I was mostly working on in areas of media
that I was not interested in. The only thing that I had opportunity to write
while I was there was about 800 words for an assignment toward the end of the
two-week internship.
While writing it, I realized that
this was what I loved to do. After almost two weeks of begrudgingly going to
work each morning and leaving feeling drained, I felt productive and inspired.
What I realized after two weeks
was that it was good to find out what you don’t like. I realized that not
every season is going to be the best one. I realized that sticking to my guns
occasionally pays off. I realized and was reminded how much I love writing, how
much I love journalism, and how much I love storytelling.
So, although I did not have the
best time I’ve ever had in my whole life while in New Zealand, I learned a lot about
myself and about what I don’t want to do in life. Although it wasn’t perfect, I
am so thankful for the teaching moments that came from it.
Watch out late this week for a
little bit about Australia and my travel tab for a list of things we did in
both New Zealand and Australia.