El Primer Canal del Ecuador

I know many of you are wondering what my title is about. Well this is the place I currently do my volunteer at. It is a private television station in Ecuador and has been around for atleast 50 years. This is by far the greatest experience I am having in Ecuador. I work with the reporters, going out on the street and getting activly involved. It is only my second day and I feel like family and a reporter. Today I met some of the most famous people in Television here in Ecuador. I was holding conversations, getting myself known, all in Spanish I must add. I am doing what I have been wanting to do for a very long time. One thing I do advise students if you feel like you want more of a practical experience in your major/career, going abroad would be a way to get. In the pass two days I have done so much practical work. The key is countries like Ecuador, Haiti, Africa, and many more need the help and apperciates the help. Good help is hard to come by in these countries, people are hard to trust, and believe it or not they love the international people. Also try to get involved as much as possible, show them you want to learn. That is the only way. I did that today with just being recorded and talking about my life, where I am from, what I study. It showed that I was fun to be around and that I love being there. They opened up to me, so I opened up to them. I am enjoying my vounteer position. I know that days will get harder but I am so proud of myself as of now. My first day we did three stories, but one really striked me. A 60 year old man hung himself in his house and his daughter found him. He was sick and I guess he became depressed and decided to end his life. Being right there in front of all this was shocking. Seeing the body being rolled out was even harder. I realize that as a reporter that although we may have feelings and care, our job is to get the story out. It is just like doctors, if they went into a depressive state everytime a patient died they all would be no good to our society. The crazy thing is we covered this story for over an hour and I only seen five minutes of it on the news. I guess that is how it works. You get what you can and its selected from there what makes it on television. I do know this (reporting) is something I want to do for the rest of my life or at least half of it. Ecuador has once did to me again. This country must want me to stay.