This day was spent mostly finishing up stories. I had hoped to get a hold of someone from Rockport FD on Monday, but unfortunately I didn’t hear back form anyone. I think Derek decided to hold the story until I could though, because it didn’t run on Tuesday, and that seemed to be my project to work on for Thursday. I think there was too much stuff running anyway on Tuesday, so it ended up working out well and buying me some time to get that interview.

I had also hoped to meet Ryan Smith, the Stars & Stripes president, on Wednesday, because he had told me that would be the best day for him. But he cancelled at the last minute and asked to reschedule for Thursday. Wednesday afternoon I contacted Derek to make sure they didn’t have anything for me to cover, and he said it would be okay. So I set-up an interview for 3pm today.

When I got in, I contacted the Rockport FD facebook page again and asked about the interview. While I was going over my interview questions, they called back! The interview went well. Once it was over, I set to transcribing and then writing the piece.

The Fire Dept voice really added to the story, and it sounded fantastic. I really like the lead that I went with on this one. I tried to be creative with it. This is the story that I am most proud of writing so far as an intern for Seguin Gazette, and I really love how it came out. On Facebook, this story reached a staggering 442 likes and 39 shares, which really blew my mind that so many people were reading something that I wrote. It was a very incredible story though.

Around 2:30p, I headed out to get the Stars & Stripes interview. The place was much quieter than before, it was very peaceful feeling. Ryan came out of his office and we sat at one of the booths for the interview. It went very well also, I got a ton of information for my article. It was actually so much information it would make the article hard to write because I wouldn’t know where to begin.

After the interview, I thanked Ryan and headed home for the day.