Anyway, that is not the most exciting thing that happened today, so let's move on to the Housing Forum for Europe Central Asia, where I attended a press conference. I thought it was exciting, because I want to be a journalist and it was a great opportunity, since it was an international forum and I got to experience it within the safety of a class.
I got to Mechwart Liget early and waited with the professor for quite a while, but nobody else from class shower up so Mr. Smyth and I got on the bus and then walked to the conference. We got there and signed in, and I got a press badge! Super cool. Eventually, three other people from my journalism class showed up, and so did other journalists. I saw other McDaniel students at the conference as well, since many of them were volunteering either for an independent study or just because they wanted to. This is the same conference I was going to volunteer at until I found that it overlapped with Prague, which I'd already booked tickets for (more on Prague in a later post).
So, the conference began, and there were four speakers representing Habitat for Humanity Hungary, Habitat for Humanity International, United Nations Development Programme, and the International Federation of the Red Cross, and they proceeded to make their statements before taking questions. I'm excited to write an article about this, although I don't yet know from which angle to pursue it because anything newsworthy that will come from the conference will be happening at the conference's conclusion, since the purpose of it is to bring people together in order to create discourse and formulate solutions to the housing crisis in Europe and Central Asia.
With that said, I have lots to do today, especially since I was gone this weekend.
Here's my to do list (luckily, only half of it needs to happen today):
outline for lit paper
1 page from perspective of secondary character in Tracks
opinion article for journalism class
Housing conference article
McDaniel Europe article
my other article
Messenger website- get archives
Marketing homework
grocery shopping
put photos online
make videos for Paris, Romania, and Prague
scholarship applications
laundry
clean desk
buy new shoes
Hi Hanna,
ReplyDeleteYour experiences in Hungary sound amazing.
I'd like to invite you to guest write for Pink Pangea (http://www.pinkpangea.com), the community for women travelers.
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