This was the first week without the Italian high school interns. This meant that I was all my boss had; an outgoing, loud, American girl with stumbling Italian.
That is how I ended up picking up two projects for the station. But it is a good thing I did because otherwise, I would not have much to do outside of teaching English on the radio every day. My lessons have still seen improvement this week; I started basing my lessons off of popular songs. Since I am teaching live on the radio, I smartened up and starting using all of my resources. Now, we listen to a song in English, and I teach them some of the words in the song. That way, they hear it in the song and hopefully retain the vocabulary better.
I will train journalists on proper camera positioning in the field and be a social media manager. Thanks to my initiative, I am now busy all the time. More…