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Location: Blogs 2008 U.S.- Austria Journalism Exchange |
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| Posted by: Mario Scherhaufer |
8/29/2008 5:38 AM |
-- If this is your first entry you're reading on this blog, stop HERE and start from the bottom!
What A Week in Denver!
-- If this is your first entry you're reading on this blog, stop HERE and start from the bottom!
The saying here in town goes that we might have witnessed history this week. I guess we'll have to wait another couple of months - until that first Tuesday in November - to see if that's really the case. (The group's predictions are 4-2 that Obama will win.)
The events this week, the spectacle today, and the entire buzz that has captivated Denver for the past four days, is hard to describe. I haven't had much sleep, but I wouldn't want to miss a minute of it.
I'm writing this final entry at 2:57 Mountain Time in Denver. It's been a fascinating and exciting week. The week could have been much more stressful and painful, if I hadn't spent it with such a wonderful group of people.
The fellows are an excellent bunch of journalists. On our way up to the Rockies, I learned that they have already written a combined 30 or so stories (mostly blogs, but also many online stories and a couple of print stories). When The Administrators wanted to hit a bar after the official DNC program finished, we were usually overruled by the fellows, who wanted to head to the hotel to hit the computers and blog away. We did not go to any Convention parties, although we were outside the door of a Burns alumna's place, who was hosting parties all week long (she was on her way back from the Pepsi Center, and we need to waste another hour or so, before she got back home).
Florian, the TV guy in the group, came prepared every day of the convention. Dressed in tie and suit, with make-up kit in his bag, he was always ready to do a stand-up on the floor of Pepsi Center. He finally got his 4 minutes, thanks to CNN, on Wednesday. Still don't know when this is gonna be on the air in Austria.
They're not only industrious, but also fit like a fiddle. Every morning, two or three of the fellows went jogging. Considering the location of our hotel in Denver - surrounded by interstates and highway ramps - this was not an easy task. Today, the discussion in the van was about what music or audio book they were listening to, while they were hitting the pavement in the morning!
They are not only an industrious and fit bunch of people, but they also are really nice and lots of fun. I couldn't have wished for a better group of fellows to spend a week with together.
Same goes for Meinrad, who represents ICFJ's partner organization in this fellowship program. His political analysis at the end of every speech, his comparison with how things are done in Austria, his knowledge and experience in all things politics and media, were indispensable this week.
3:37 - Off to pack now, and to get some sleep. |
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