Preparing for New York

It comes at you so fast. It was hard to imagine just how soon I would have to prepare for my intensive study in New York. Only yesterday I turned in over 50 pages worth of projects for my last semester of university study. My fingers still burn from the rampant typing and my brain is just now starting to wind down, but now I must prepare for New York City.

I've never been to New York, its kind of funny really. I've been to Hong Kong, Macau, Panama City, Manila, Moscow, Frankfurt, Zhu Hai and Chicago but never to our own Big Apple. I'm looking forward to it. The opportunity which I have been given through the Bretzlaff scholarship to study with some of the industry's best Christian journalists cannot have come at a better time for me. In just a few months I will be married and off to Latin America to serve as a photo-journalist for the mission field in South and Central America, this training will be invaluable! The position is volunteer and is brand new for my church body (the LCMS) so I will be a pioneer in this new and exciting field. It will help to have the connections and the support of Christian Journalists working in the secular press.

Today I need to acquire the materials that I will need for this course which begins next Sunday, I will be posting my pre-class essays here for your reading pleasure.