South turns a thorough Conservative into a 'Democrat'

Midterm at the Missouri University, Columbia was a great experience for me as a journalist. I had introduced to me so many new but very important journalistic tools.

It was great feelings when I used a professional camera for still photography. Recording sound bytes on a digital recorder and working on video camera were also worth mentioning experiences. But editing sound bytes and video recordings was something I could never imagine. I am a kind of anti-technology guy and I don’t believe that I have done it.

Spreadsheets were always a no go area for me and making maps- absolutely out of question. But now, I love them.

I am a thorough conservative when it comes to try and apply new things as a journalist. I always used to think that I was a dumb when it came to use technology mainly because I had never got a chance to gain knowledge of it.

I know that I may not be able to use some of these new tools in my newsroom back in Pakistan but it is OK. It gives me tons of confidence that technology is not out of my reach. I can learn it.

Midterm was also a great opportunity to see all the colleagues and friends. It had strengthened our relationship with one another.

I don’t have great news to share with you people from my newsroom. I have started understanding that my story on Hilal food in USA is going nowhere as I haven’t been able to get some good quotes from the companies working on Hilal food here. Luckily, there are no Hurricanes, so routine stuff is going on.

This is also vacation season here. Every week a colleague is going to beach or hills with his/her family. One of our colleagues has resigned while one has transferred to DC, so we are quite a few people here and it is really big place. Sometimes there is voice at all the whole day.