So I know I haven't posted in a while (I can't believe it's been a month!) but things have been so busy and crazy that I just haven't had the time. So here is a quick recap of what's happened the last month.
First off Internships: I had already had an internship when I came out here, and had been applying to find another one, got a second internship doing development for a production company that does mostly non scripted stuff (things you'd find on animal planet, discovery channel, history channel) but the week after I started my second internship, the first one said that they didn't have the work to keep me on and had to let me go (strangely I was ok with this). But at least I had the other one, so I went back on the look for a second internship again, and then at the begining of the month was finally able to secure a second internship at a production company that does a lot a sketch comedy stuff. I'll be mostly working in post-production will will hopefully get to do some production work too. All in all I'm really happy with the internships I have, although they keep me uber busy.
Next LA trips/adventures: So the last thing I blogged about was the Price Is Right taping that we went to. Since then I've gone to a LA Kings game (they played the Calgary Flames and lost 1-0), Explored LA's Natural History Museum, spending an unhealthy amount of time in the gems and minerals exhibit for anyone who is not a science major, spent about 15 hours in Disneyland :) and having the time of my life with some of the most amazing people I have met out here, and going to the Griffith Observatory with some really fun girls, and getting to see Jupiter!!! (again I think I should have been a science major)
Bad Days and Realizations: But as is life not everything that happens can be "good" but everything can be taken as a learning experience. This past week has really been rough, my laptop fried and it took longer than I would have liked for the technicians to realize what the actual problem was, but after getting over the initial shock, and a decent amount of time playing phone tag between myself, my parents (mainly my dad), and my brother, I got a new computer. However this experience really taught me a lot. For one thing it forced me to bring God and my faith back into perspective, which I admit I had been pushing to the side in order to focus on my internships (both the searching and the work) as well as all the experiences and activities that I had been given the opportunity to be a part of. But I was able to devote much more time this past week than I think I have since I've been out here (that is if you don't count going to church every sunday). It gave me the time to read the book "Redeeming Love", a book I highly recommend to EVERYONE who has not read it, which I had been trying to read since I've been out here, but actually I was actually recommended the book last semester by many people more than once. Loosing my computer though also made me realize how dependent not only students and professionals are to technology, but really the entire American Culture is, as well as how "comfortable" we as a society have become. When you think about it were is our focus? What are the handful of things that if taken away would cause us to actually panic? But I guess my most important question is WHY? Why do we put those things first? When did our need for stuff and our ability to keep ourselves busy become more important that spending time in silence and with one another?
All in all I am having an wonderful semester and am so in awe of everything that I'm getting the opportunity to do and can not believe how blessed I am to able to learn so much about not only the media industry in general, but also about our culture, the history of media, LA, and the western US in general, as well as learning more about myself and other people.
I know this was a long time coming and I'm going to really try to keep up with it for the rest of the time that I'm out here.
