This day was much better.
I started by helping to organize the writer's room. We went through all the newspapers and arraged them by organization and date. After that we watched a speech by the country's leading presidential candidate. His name is Nana Akuoffo-Addo. His party the NPP has been in power for the past 8 years and has lead Ghana through arguably the only real democracy in the nation's history. He was talking about the party's legacy and how he will continue their efforts to improve the economy, modernize the society and ensure democracy continues. He used the speech to announce his election committee(the folks who are supposed to get him into office). At the end, I was given a copy of the speech, so I could read it and take notes.
After that my self and one other reporter set out to come up with some questions and interview Akuoffo-Addo's opposition, to get their reaction to the start of his campaign. We were given a list of names and phone numbers of some of the leadership in the nation's other political parties. It was all really cool. I was about to become a real journalist and co-write my first article.
But, bad information and/or communication networks hit. We attempted to call them all. But only reached two people. One was a member of Akkuoffo-Addo's political party and the other declined the interview because he hadn't had time to see the speech. The rest of the phone numbers gave us an error message, telling us that the person whom we were attempting to reach was out of coverage area or had turned off their phone. Typical.
End of the road.
I still can say it was a nice glimpse of my work to come. Can't wait to try again.
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