Hello from Wartburg West! My name is Alyssa Kozak and I will be a
3rd year majoring in journalism and multimedia. This is the start of the 9th
week here in Denver and man has the summer flown by! Most all of the other
Wartburg West people left over the weekend so there is about 10 of us left. It
is pretty quiet in the halls! So I bet you are wondering where I am interning?
Well, I have two internships that I am working at and they are now partners in
work.
For the first four weeks, I was strictly at Colorado Public
Television Station or CPT12 everyday except for Tuesdays. It was hard to find
things to keep me busy and I was missing out on a lot of practice with my video
work so I talked to all my supervisors (Bonita, Dominic at CPT12 and Travis
Bockenstedt at Wartburg) to see what else I could do. Luckily, there is a
Wartburg production company called FourthWall Productions that was started by
Travis and some alumni. I took the opportunity to join this team and help with
a documentary on a local band here in Denver. I also get to help with their
clients and making different videos. For the last three weeks and two weeks to
come, I split my time between both places, three days at FourthWall and two
days at CPT12. I even am creating a promo video for a podcast for CPT12 to
hopefully broadcast! And as for the partnership between the two places of work,
hopefully FourthWall will create some content that CPT12 will be able to
broadcast. Maybe even the documentary that I am working on! Great things have
happened this summer through my internship and I am glad I reached out to
FourthWall Productions to help them get their foot in the door at CPT12. And I
almost forgot to tell you that at CPT12 I get to help produce the show and get
to help with graphics or a camera every Friday. It has been a great learning
experience at both places.
As you can see, I have been pretty busy with all of my work at my
internship sites, but I have also had time to enjoy the great city of Denver
and all of Colorado. Since I have a car here, a group of us went out and hiked
at different places around Colorado. We went to the most beautiful lake I have
ever seen called "Hanging Lake" and it is wonderful. (Pictures below)
We went to different attractions and famous hikes and what a view. When they
say "the view is breath-taking!" they really mean "by the time
you get to the top you will be so out of breath from the journey but look at
that view!" trust me, I know this feeling. Another girl and I were the
caboose each time of our hiking trip, like I mean we were a good hour behind
the rest of the group each time because we walk slow and take in everything,
but we didn't care because it was worth it. We also got to meet people from all
over the world like South Africa who was hiking barefoot!
Not only have we hiked a lot, we also went to some great concerts
like Ed Sheeran, Meghan Trainor and Lady A. Those concerts were awesome and we
met a lot of cool people each time! This week, I am attending the Kelly
Clarkson concert and I am pumped! It will be awesome because who doesn't love
Kelly? I also attending the Move Live tour with Derek and Julianne Hough from
Dancing With The Stars. I loved it so much because I was in dance for 13 years
and love to watch it!
To end my post, I just wanted to thank everyone who made this trip
amazing! Thank you to Wartburg for giving us small town college kids the
experience of a lifetime living in Denver! Thank you to Bonita and Nelson for
being in charge of finding the internships because I know it is not easy as I
am now looking for another internship. Thank you to Jack and Marietta Schemmel
for all that you do and getting to know us students. Also, they gave us Rockie
Tickets with a great view! This summer was one of the best that I have ever had
and I am glad that I took the opportunity to come out here for this adventure.
Luckily, my brother Alex gets to come out for the last week I am here and
experience some white water rafting with me. :)
That's all from me! Please stay tuned to KnightVision to catch me
and my fellow friends giving you the news and sports from the Cedar
Valley!
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