Inspiration

Ugh! I have not had the time to update my blog! SORRY :D. There's so much to be done in such little time!

I got some pretty decent marks last semester... 3 B's and an A. I'm not failing which is the main thing ;)

One of the practice shots from M.V.P.

Its already week three of second year, second semester classes. It's already getting pretty intense. I'm taking five classes instead of the standard four - Web Media (learning about online media), Media - Video - Photography (learning photography and filming), Digital Publishing (learning how to create publications), Media Communication (learning how to communicate in media) and Broadcast Presentation (television and radio broadcasting). :-). If you've already guessed.. I'm so excited to do Broadcast Presentation! Media - Video - Photography is pretty cool too! We get to learn how to take photographs to help us when writing journalism stories as well as create a documentary for TV. I'm clearly not a photographer unless selfies are counted so I'm pretty excited to be able to do something out of my element. But its totally nerve-wrecking at the same time.

My tutor Debbie (who inspired me to create this blog) described last week that a blog is kind of like an online CV. Some employees tend to Google people these days and I'm hoping that all of this shows up under my name if someone tries to Google me.

Having fun at LEAP

I've been working like crazy lately! I worked quite a bit over the mid-semester break! I worked during the school holidays helping out with a sausage sizzle at the new indoor trampoline park LEAP... that place is epic as! I had just as much fun there as the kids haha. I also helped hand out free lollies to kids (and their nostalgic parents) at The Base, as well as working a night during re-O-week... was tiring as but totally worth it!


I can't believe that I've been doing radio for two and a half years now. https://soundcloud.com/theyakfm (Some of my radio classes work from 2012). I never saw myself as someone who wanted a career. But I found something I loved and two and a half years later I'm halfway through my Communications degree as well as having a radio cert and media arts cert under my belt and am employed in the job I worked hard for :).

Throwback... some of my classmates and my tutor Blair
back on the radio cert in 2012

My workmate Erin and I working at re-O-week :)

I always considered a career in broadcasting as well as being a flight attendant. I didn't make the height requirements for flight attending so I settled for radio. Growing up, my parents always played the radio in the car. My Mum always listened to The Breeze Waikato in the car when she used to drop me off at school (mainly because it was the only station that we could get in the car) and listening to the announcers everyday inspired me to do it. My Mum died in a car accident 5 years ago on her way home from work. We had been listening to the radio in the morning the last time I ever saw her. I had gotten my licence a week earlier and the moment I got my own car and was able to listen to the radio again, it was the moment I knew I wanted to go for it.


I'm not the sort of person who would be classed as having a "face for radio", nor did I originally have any form of talent in terms of speaking on the radio. But I wanted to do it and all of the things I have done have worked towards turning me into the person I am today and it has paid off. I still have a long way to go in order to get where I want to be. But I am excited for the things I have done, the things I might do and the things I will do.

Until next time,

Katie the Radio Girl x