Live from New Castle...it's Thursday Night!!!

I recently had the amazing opportunity to do another live remote for The County Line. Thursday Chris Norris and myself were the co-anchors for New Castle's Light Up Night. I work with Chris every week on the radio as we have a morning show together. We both LOVE Christmas (we've had a countdown going since October) and this was such a fun experience! It was another chance for me to experience what it's like ad-libbing for an extended period of time; ad-libbing on the radio and ad-libbing on TV are two totally different things. Chris and I were joined by retired band director Dr. Tom Zumpella for the narration of the parade. He was a little pre-occupied with the parade and didn't talk as much as we would have liked him to, but it was still an awesome experience. I was a little worried about whether we would be able to fill the time, but with all of our Christmas spirit along with some great stories things worked out very well! So not only did I get to take part in yet another live event that will go on my resume tape...I am now officially in the Christmas spirit!

Cloning would be nice

This past week was ridiculously busy. We had to do live coverage of our school's Mock Convention. This was my first true live experience. Our news is done live, but we have a teleprompter. Mock Convention was all ad-libbing and working in conjunction with so many other people. It was a little rough at times because we weren't getting very clear signals from the people in the truck as far as what was coming up next so things were a little hectic for awhile, but overall I think things went relatively smoothly.

In addition to all of that I was also involved in Theatre Westminster's production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opening night was Thursday; so was Mock Convention. So as soon as Midsummer ended I had to run down to the gym, change and get ready to go live in an hour. So it was a little crazy, but things went well. There were times this week where I wish there were two of me so I could get everything done, but it was a nice lesson in time management. And this live opportunity provided great material for a resume.