LAST BLOG OF THE SUMMER!!!

THIS IS THE LAST DAY OF THE SUMMER PROGRAM BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THAT ITS THE LAST TIME IM GONNA BE HERE! IN ABOUT 2 WEEKS IM COMING BACK FOR MY COLLEGE YEAR. I START MEDGAR EVERS ON THE 27,AND I DONT GET MY DIPLOMA ON THE FIRST.

LAST NIGHT MY TEAM NOT ONLY WON THE PRESENTATION BUT WE ALSO WON THE WHOLE COMPETITION!  THAT MOMENT WAS LIKE A SPORTS MOVIE WHEN THE TEAM STARTS OUT IN LAST PLACE AND THEY GET A NEW COACH THAT LEADS THEM TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP AND THEY WIN THE WHOLE CHAMPIONSHIP MUCH TO THE AUDIENCES SURPRISE. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT TEAM AMBUSH IS ALL ABOUT!

WHO'S THE BEST???

WE WON...TEAM AMBUSH IS THE UBDISPUTED BEST...OMG I LOVE MY TEAM...IM SO HAPPY!!!!!

TEAM AMBUSH WON

Oh my god, we won the whole competition + the presentation. We are the best !!!

TEAM AMBUSH

SO LONG AND FAIR WELL

YESTERDAY WAS OUR PRESENTATION AT COLUMBIA.AT FIRST I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO BOMB BECAUSE WE COULD NOT SEEM TO GET OUR PERSONAL STATEMENTS RIGHT.BUT AS THE PRESENTATION WENT ON,I GOT MORE COMFORTABLE AND MORE INVOLVED IN THE TOPIC AT HAND.SHALISE WAS A GREAT HELP SO KODOS TO HER.FATIMA IN THE END WAS A GOOD LEADER AND HELPED ALL OF US PULL IT TOGETHER EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS AS NERVOUS AS WE WERE.WE ALL CONTRIBUTED SOMETHING TO THE PRESENTATION AND WE GOT A CHANCE TO SHOW OUR OWN UNIQUE TALENTS.IM SAD THAT MY TIME HERE AT HARLEM LIVE IS COMING TO AN END.SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE EXPERIENCE.I WILL TRY TO COME AND VISIT BEING THAT I WILL BE ATTENDING SCHOOL IN TWO WEEKS.SHOUT OUTS TO DORILUZ,STEVEN,MATTHEW,NAIQUAN,JIMMY,ERIC,KENNEQUA,FATIMA,ALLANA,AND THE WHOLE HARLEM LIVE.

PROUD MAMA

OMG!!!I WANT TO CRY RIGHT NOW BUT TEARS OF JOY OF COURSE! TODAY WAS THE FINAL PRESENTATION AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND MY TEAM MADE ME SOOOO PROUD! WE WERE ALL NERVOUS BEFOREHAND AND I REALLY HAD TO PEE CAUSE I WAS SO NERVOUS. OUR PERSONAL STATEMENTS WERE BETTER THAN I THOUGHT AND I WAS SO HAPPY CAUSE IT STARTED OF REALLY WELL WE WERE HAVING A BIT OF TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES CAUSE THAT STUPID SCREEN THING WAS CONFUSING AS HELL. BUT WE STARTED THE PRESENTATION AND I TALKED AND I CAN REMEMBER EVERYTHING THAT I SAID WHICH IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL CONSIDERING IT IS USUALLY A BLUR BUT IT WAS SO CLEAR. NELLA AND ALLANA WERE NEXT THEN KENNEQUA. KENNEQUA HAD TO READ HER POEM, DREAMIN, AND IT WAS A GOOD POEM BUT SHE WAS REALLY NERVOUS. WE SHOWED THE VIDEO AND I THINK EVERYONE REALLY LOVED IT LIKE IT WAS GOOD. I THINK IT SHOULD BE NOMINATED FOR BEST VIDEO. THEN MATT SAID HIS PEACE AND THEN JENNIFER AND THEN IT WAS OVER. WE SAT DOWN FOR Q&A. THE JUDGES HAD GOOD QUESTIONS AND FOR THE MOST PART, I THINK WE ANSWERED THEM ALL WELL. WHEN THEY ASKED WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR ALL OF US, I THINK THAT WAS GOOD CAUSE IT TESTED US TO SEE IF ANYONE REALLY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT. AFTERWARDS, I JUST WANTED TO GET UP AND SCREAM CAUSE I WAS SO HAPPY. I WAS ON SUCH AN ADRENALINE RUSH IT WAS CRAZY. THATS WHY I HAD TO SMACK RICH A FEW TIMES. I HOPE WE WON...I REALLY DO CAUSE WE DID REALLY WELL AND MY TEAM PULLED IT OFF AND I AM JUST SO PROUD.

too busy for comfort

i just arrived at harlem live about five minutes ago and boy is it hectic! i had an appointment today at medgar evers. and it didnt go too well. thankfully summer school is OVER BABY! no more school, no more problems.

WORDS OF WISDOM

TODAY IS THE DAY OF THE PRESENTATION.I HAD TO WRITE THE ESSAY ON FIRST AMENDMENT.IT WAS EASY BECAUSE I GET ALONG WITH FIRST AMENDMENT.ITS BEEN CRAZY THIS LAST COUPLE OF DAYS.YOU THINK THAT EVERYONE IS IN YOUR CORNER UNTIL YOU STOP DOING FOR THEM.THEN THEY TURN THEIR BACKS ON YOU.DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ANYONE ESPECIALLY THOSE CLOSE TO YOU BECAUSE THEY HAVE MORE TO TALK ABOUT.TAKE THESE WORDS OF WISDOM FROM EXPERIENCE,DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO FOR YOURSELF AND BY YOURSELF.NOBODY HAS TO DO ANYTHING FOR YOU AND NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN WILL NOT DO ANYTHING FOR YOU IF IF DOESN'T BENEFIT THEM.BUT BESIDES THAT,I HOPE WE DO GOOD TODAY.GO TEAM AMBUSH

let me finish

Hi everybody i am fine just a little tired. This is the end of the competition and my whack ass job so i am going to be getting rest real soon. I didn't come to Hl yesterday because i went to see my brother in the hospital and went home to get rest but that didn't happen. My cousin called me up to her house to help her fix up her Internet and i did something other stuff so never got my nap. I was suppose to be  writing my career story but i started not to long ago, hopefully i be finish before we have to go to the presentation. Antwone was here when i came in i didn't know that he was coming and he expected my story so now i am rushing to do it. I hope Aaliyah come tomorrow for she could count my points. Well later everybody for i could finish my story.

Presentation DAY !!

well today is presentation day at that university and i am a bit nervous....but i have a headach. arg. sum of our team members are missing which sucks. but like my leader said even if its 3 of us we can still rock it. i hope we do well and impress the judges....good luck to us and the rest of the teams.


TEAM AMBUSH

Sappy

I AM SO FREAKIN NERVOUS!!!!!!!!FUCK THIS YO...WE JUST GOTTA DO OUR BEST 2MORO

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NELLA !!!!

HAPPY 18 BIRTHDAY NELLA !!!!

On the street with jimmy

So jimmy had to go out on interviews, and interview the owners from barber shops. I think jimmy did well. i give him props. as for me i went as the photographer. here is a slideshow, just showing how we did.

TODAY WAS A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT.I WASN'T GOING TO COME INTO WORK TODAY BECAUSE IT IS MY BIRTHDAY.IT SEEMS THAT EVERYONE AT HARLEM LIVE REMEMBERS MY BIRTHDAY ,IT JUST WASN'T THE SAME AT HOME.SINCE I MOVED OUT ITS BEEN HECTIC.IF I DIDN'T COME TODAY MY GROUP WOULD HAVVE TO DO THE STUFF WITHOUT ME.IM JUST SO FED UP,BUT I THINK THAT'S THE WORLD OF WORKING.I DON'T WANT TO WRITE ANYMORE.SEE YOU TOMORROW.

Im in.....

So this morning was ugly...It was raining terrible. So I was like o0o noo, this sucks. But then it started to stop, and the sun came out. I then left my house. When i walk in i was glad to see my team members again. I dont know what is my team up 2 like "where are they at" but in progress. Reading from blogs the presentation on friday was cancel. I dont know when the next will be. But i hope we do well...

Hay H.L is over 4 Muah:(

It is 8/11/08 and we have four days left to enjoy the company and love and hard work of Harlem Live. Im soooooooo going to miss my peoples from Harlem Live specially my buddy's Jonny and Mike and Shem and Adam and Matthew and everybody in H.L. The fact that Harlem Live is not only a job is really true. I have developed so many skills from other team members as teachers that you dont know how bad i am going to miss this. I think i am coming back in september as a volunteer but i dont know yet. It was a honor to work with my be loved team Ambush and everyone in H.L. I hope yah keep with the communication and to not forget bout the strangers that loves you. I love you guys and i dont forget about DORILUZ! like richard says it. LOL. Even though his a pain in the ass but for a good cause i still love him. Well this is my last testimony and see yah around. Oh or come to H.L so i could see yah. Good Bye :(   

TODAY

TODAY WAS SO BORING.IT RAINED ALL DAY AND I HATE THE RAIN.TOMORROW IS THE DAY I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.IT IS OUR STORY WITH RON ALEXANDER ON HIS SHOW.WE HAVE TO BE THERE AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON.I JUST HAVE TO FIND SOMEONE TO BE A CAMERA GUY AND A PHOTOGRAPHER.WE DIDN'T HAVE A PRESENTATION TODAY WHICH I THOUGHT SUCKED.WHY TODAY COULDN'T BE FROM ONE TO SEVEN.THIS NINE O CLOCK PUNCH OUT IS CRAZY FOR A FRIDAY.I AM SO TIRED.MY BACK HURT AND I AM AGITATED.MY GROUP BETTER HAD DONE THEIR BLOG AND WRITTEN THEIR ESSAYS AND RESUMES.THAT WAS A REQUIREMENT SO IF THEY DON'T THEN THAT IS GOOF POINTS FOR THE TEAM.

:)No presentation 2 day:(

Today there is no presentation going on 2 day. I am also the only person in my team who is in H.L. Most of the other team are hear but i am the only one here from my team. I think i am going to teaches college to see were are we going to present. I am kind of nerves about how the presentation is going to turn off. I am exited though but nerves. Hay dios mio i  am going 2 miss harlem live.................

Almost dead!

I was about to get killed on wensday. It was all because of Jonny. We were all chilling and also doing work and listening to music, when jonny had the idea to start teaching jennifer to dance bachata and merengue and since nobody knew how to dance salsa i started joining the club. But i got to into the club to much so i got home late. I was about to cry because i know my moms and she is hell. I got home safe though and the hell inside my momz did not come out. I had a good night sleep. and everybody was kool. 

The Counselor: Chapter 5, Deep Blue pool

i reminisce on the days when i could not swim in deep water. when i was younger, i would always take a deep water test but never past. year after year i failed to stay at the surface of an 8 feet deep pool. at the age of 10 i nearly drowned in the Dunlevey Milbank center pool because i decided to test my skills in the deep side of the pool, even though i knew i couldnt swim. Now 8 years later, i come back to face my potential death setting, The Deep Blue pool.

"I would like to take a deep water test" i said to one of the life gaurds. She asks "do yuou know how to swim. i said yeas and told her i just cant tread water. she told me that as long as i can doggy paddle then i would be fine. i could doggy paddle. i'm good at that. if i could do that i figured that i will be fine because i can swim.

It is 15 minutes after 11am and the last test taker leaves the pool passing that test. "if one of my kids from my group can past the deep water test, then i can" i said to my self. As i walk onto the diving board, my heart beats with fear. i stare at the water remembering wat i did to myself 8 years ago. "Hands up straight, and your gonna jump staright down" the life gaurd says.

To be continued.......

No presentations today

Today is friday and its the second last friday of the week. this week we do not have a presentation but knowing the staff, they might have something else planned for us today Something tell me im gonna have a real busy day today. there is much more to not having a presentation today than most people might think.

Wanted

I completed my 5 week essay!!!! I hope the rest of my team has done so as well. This weekend is really important for me because it is my chance to get a good chunk of HL work done like more articles and the script for our tv show. The videos aren't completely edited so that needs to be done soon. I don't think we'll have everything from the list done but we can try to get most of it. As for the presentation, we are trying to think outside of the box and be creative. Tomorrow we have to go to Columbia to find out what will happen on Tuesday. I want our tv show to be done because that is 5000 beautiful points.

Tonight was my first movie night at HL and it was fun. We watched the new movie, Wanted. It was soooo good. We had pizza and cookies and stuff. It was fun except for the fact that I had to keep beating Brad up because he doesn't know how to listen and he kept trying to ruin the movie for me. Afterwards, we watched a bunch of stupid youtube movies and then Selly drove Frankie and I home in the Scion. Oh I almost forgot; I won the Flyer contest. Rosa, Christian, and I went to Union Square and I handed out 175 flyers out in 11 minutes. My throat was hoarse afterwards because I had to keep saying flyer. People are rude though. It was fun for the most part and we won 750 points. YAY!!!

the counselor: Chapter 4, The counselor and Video producer

damn its been an interesting summer. is about a few days left of da summer media challenge and Team ambush is in last place this week. i truly realized that werking with my tea members has been interesting. i feel that when i am here i am doing my best to produce videos with good quality. Even though the leader of team ambush denies my contribution to the team, accuses me of doing videos for the other teams and not helping my teamates at all when i am here, i feel that i shuldnt have to worry bout her ridiculous, unethical and childish criticism. i was about to resighn from the team until Shelise, my friend and Alumni advisor persuaded me to not resign and continue helping the team knowing that we are in a crucial status and we need to step it up a notch. realizing that i didnt fufill my  extended plans for the summer media challenge because of my full time job and family priorities, i will continue to work with team ambush for the remainder of the summer and do my best to help team ambush rise again. God bless those who hate me, envy me, love me, like me, admire me, appreciate me or dont appreciate my status at harlemlive.

alright day

Today it was an alright day because i finally had people helping me with my video editing. Today in the video room i had Chris helping me. I also had Henry from the other team helping me out to. The only thing  that made me mad today was that Dushawn made me do the dishes. Those damn dishes were od nasty. I had Allana helping me today with the dishes thats how nasty they were. Alright today it was a funny day because Chris and Waarith were making jokes the whole time.  In the video room most of the time it was me, Henry,Chris and Johery doing the editing. On my lunch break i had subway that sandwich was good wow now im hungry again so im outta here.

Done

Hi everybody i am fine just finish with the things i had to do today besides the video. But i am still working on other things. My day was okay we had the workshop breakfast, it was nice. That took about two hours from work, i was so happy. It still felt like work took forever for some reason. I had a healthy lunch, i ate fresh at subways. The last two hours of work after lunch went fast, next thing i was at HL. I rushed to make sure my stuff was ready to post and now i am blogging. Then i have to wait for Matthew to come for we could edit my hood video. I cant stay until nine today because i am tired and need some rest. Tomorrow is  presentation, my team need to take that. I really hope they do but i have faith in us. Well i later everybody let me go get my points counted. 

MY THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

TODAY IS SO TIRING.I HAD TO GO TO MY MAIN WORKSITE THIS MORNING.THE ONLY REASON I WENT BECAUSE THAT IS PART OF MY HOURS TO GET PAID FOR.I ONLY HAVE TO WORK AT HARLEM LIVE FOR TWO HOURS BUT I DOUBT IF I WILL GET OUT BEFORE FIVE.THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO.I ALREADY FINISHED WRITING MY ESSAY AND MY RESUME.I JUST NEED TO TYPE THEM NOW.THAT SHOULDN'T BE TOO MUCH.I JUST HOPE THAT MY FELLOW TEAM MEMBERS ARE ON THEIR JOB ALSO.I FIGURE MY EMAIL EDITORS SHOULDN'T TAKE ALL THIS TIME TO GET BACK TO ME ON MY MEMIORS AND MY STORY.I NEED TO GET THEM POSTED BECAUSE THOSE POINTS ARE NECESSARY FOR THE TEAM.I HAVE TO GET A VIDEO AND A CAMERA PERSON TO GO WITH ME ON SATURDAY.REMEMBER SATURDAY IS THE RON ALEXANDER SHOW.IF WE HAVE ENOUGH TIME TOMORROW,I CAN GO TO BRYANT PARK TO SEE THE JONAS BROTHERS BUT THAT'S AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING.I DOUBT SOMEONE WILL BE AT HARLEM LIVE SO THAT WE COULD COME IN THE MORNING TO GET A VIDEO CAMERA.

HELLO, HL(AGAIN)

I'm just entering harlem live and right now i'm having a little problem with trying to post my movie review. the computer i have now is good for the internet but bad for finding my folder so i can send my review to my email editor so that it can be posted to the new harlem live site. 

as soon as this is all done i'll count my points for the week and then see if i can make the top 15 for at least this week. when this is all done i will go to college in medgar evers for one year then transfer to either leighmon or city college just because its more invested in journalism than MEC is.

What's Wrong With people?

Like i said whats up with people these days when you want me here i get ya goofs and when im not here ya lose like ya really need to choose cause ya is like dumb retarted right now and itsz like not even a joke and fatima get off me itsz like u like me or suthin u keep hitten me and bothering me go home damn get a damn life fo sho cause u gotsz to be jealous of me hi hater and now bye hater see ya later. so fatima go somewhere and stop hatin on me lolsz hahahaahahaha any way shoutouts i dnt no how we in last thats jus crazy we lost though aint no comin back. DUCESZ!!!!!

bring down the work and workshop week

would you believe that this week i had two workshops? and guess where they were held IN BROOKLYN! NICE HUH? on one hand these workshops take away from my time in HL. plus they're annoying, but i have to go, because i do get paid extra for going to these things.

even though the workshops are cutting in to my time i use the time that i have in harlem live to do as much work as i can get done; especially since there's only about a week and a half left here if you count coming on saturdays. time is the most important thing we all have and i plan to make the most of it! im really gonna miss being at HL but i'll still cover some events and bring it to them while im at college.

A big WOW for 2day

So Im entering HL, and i hear everywhere the words "laptop" and stolen". I asked fatima and she told me that one of the laptop was stolen. I was shock and surprise that someone would actually steal one. Like thats really low of someone to do. Later on like around 5 something HL decided to file a report and call the cops. The cops came and gisely spoke to them and told them the situation. Well besides that some of my team members went on a p.o.s to get footage for our tv show. I stood here to post stories. So yea tomorrow I wont be here because its my moms birthday and I need to spend time with her + i have a meeting for virtual enterprise which takes up time then i have to go to the virtual enterprise lady at 2:00 so basically i wont have the whole day with my mom but ill spend my whole afternoon + night with her.

- Piece

Some DoucheBag Stole A Mac....

So we called the POPO on they bitch asses!!!!That is so messed up because HL does so much for everyone here like they're so good to us. For someone to take advantage of our resources is not cool. I hope whoever took it is found and prosecuted and thrown into jail. It was so weird not to be able to use any laptops like it didn't feel like the normal HL. I feel violated and I'm so everyone else does as well. We plan on going on some POS's and doing the restaurant review and spa story. Shelise is here and she is busting my balls like OD and I'm just a bit scared.

In a hurry

Hi everybody i am fine just got off work and now i am at HL. Work was the same as always , boring. I am kind of tired today because i barely get sleep. It is like we are in a hurry to make sure our points are finish, right when i got in they was on it. That's what i like though because it is showing that team ambush is doing their thing. I hope i points get up in a hurry because we have to win this. I need to send my art gallery story and poem to my email editors today. The final presentation is next week, it came so fast. I think we ready for it though, you already know our name. Well let em get on what i suppose to do, later i am in a hurry.

My Night In Brad's Car :)

Lol. Well let me start by saying that my night was good even though my mom messed up the last two hours of my night but it was good. Ok it was Jonny, CoCo, Fatima, Brad and me in brad's car. The plan was to take coco and fatima to 181st so they can take there train home but nooooooooooo............... they did not know no train in 181st that would take them home so coco and faima decided to convince brad to take them home. And we ended in the Bronx to coco's crib and then fatima's crib. It was fun because Jonny was there right next to me :) Well ill just tell you that lil part cuz i know yall nosey as hell. ok thatz it.Bye

Oh Why Me. . .!

Ok for the T.V show we needed to go out and shoot a video about the youth from todays day and how would the youth impact the election this year. Well in our process of doing that there was this lady in Jimbo who was freaking out about the fact that we was shooting a video in front of her "property". That got me piss because that was not even the owner of the place and she comes yelling @ me. The only thing for me to do was to laugh because that stupid bitch was crazy. How can she do that! She got my nerves way up high but what's worse is that she kept on talking mad shit like seriously. Well after that my day was a delight. The people who rode that car with me knows why was it a delight.  

ABC

WE JUST GOT BACK FROM THE MEDIA SITE VISIT.IT WAS GREAT BECAUSE WE GOT TO GO BEHIND THE SCENES.THE GROUP OF US MET KEN ROSATOS.HE SAID MY HAIR WAS COOL.YAY ME!!!!!!!WE ALSO GOT TO VIEW THE CONTROL ROOM,THE WEATHER STATION,AND WHERE THE STATIO ACTUALLY DID THE NEWS LIVE.WE STAYED THERE FOR THE HALF HOUR RUN OF THE TWELVE O CLOCK NEWS AND WE GOT TO MEET THE OTHER ANCHORS.IT WAS MORE OF NETWORKING BECAUSE WE WERE HANDING OUT FLIERS MORE THAN THEY WERE GIVING US INFORMATION.I DISCOVERED THAT I CAN DO AN INTERNSHIP IN MY JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEAR OF COLLEGE AT ABC.IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOUR MAJOR HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MEDIA OR JOURNALISM.SINCE I'M GOING TO SCHOOL FOR LAW.I WILL FOLLOW UP ON THAT IN TWO-THREE YEARS.

its me from medgar evers

hey everybody! im blogging from medgar evers college. right know im waiting for my placement test to start but that doesnt mean i wont have time to come to harlem live after im donehere. so my test starts at 1:00 today and it probably doesn't end till four. and judging by the trains i wont be at HL until after 5.

YEAH THEY GOT ME HERE EARLY THIS MORNING.I AM SCHEDULED FOR TEN THIS MORNING TO GO TO NBC.THAT MEANS I HAD TO GET UP AT SEVEN THIS MORNING THE COME FROM BROOKLYN.NO WONDER I PICKED THE AFTERNOON SCHEDULE.SO LETS HOPE THAT THE MEDIA SITE VISIT GO WELL TODAY.RICH IS OVER HERE LISTENING TO "RING MY BELL".AT NINE IN THE MORNING RICH.YOU CAN'T PICK SOMETHING ELSE AND YOU GOT ALL OF US LISTENING TO IT.FATIMA SUPPOSED TO BE GOING.I THINK THE MORE PEOPLE WHO COME FROM TEAM AMBUSH,THE BETTER.SO IT SHOULDN'T BE ANY EXCUSES TO WHY WE DON'T HAVE A MEDIA SITE VISIT STORY.IT JUST WOULDN'T MAKE SENSE FOR ALL OF US TO WRITE THE ARTICLE WHEN THE REST OF US CAN WORK ON WHAT WE HAD GOING.AMBUSH IS TAKING THIS WEEK.

Da Vinci

So Coco invited us to have some dinner with these Italian kids visiting the city. They were staying at a hostel on 103rd and we saw all these teens from different parts of the world especially Germany and let me just say that German boys are HOT!!!! It took us a while to get situated cause the Italians were no where to be found. Then we met them and there were quite a few hotties in the bunch. Stephanie and Luisa each had a table full of guys. Luisa bagged a dude and Stephanie just admired. It was pretty difficult to communicate with the Italian girls I was seated with although they were really nice people and they smiled a lot. They're little English combined with my no Italian was disastrous. The food was good and the hostel's nice. I chatted more with the chaperon because her English is better and she taught me a lot about the Italian government and stuff. It was good for the most part and I love the new Nikon; it takes such good pictures. Shelise stopped by again today as did Kumasi and tomorrow's our ABC visit. I got into an argument with Matthew after he learned he wasn't co-leader anymore. He should not have been surprised that JACKASS!!!!I REALLY REALLY DISLIKE THIS DOUCHEBAG!!!

NBC Groupie

OMG!!! Today was sooooo much fun. We went to NBC and watched the Today Show in the fourth hour. It was so cool because we got to see like every thing that happens on that show. You have to be very quiet on the set and the commercials go by very quickly. There are about 20 or so people on the set during the commercials, they change the set and bring in guest and the hosts review their notes and chat or like move to another floor with like the kitchen in it which, by the way, we actually got to hang out in while watching the taping. And we got to meet Rev. Run and Justine. That was definitely one of the highlights of this experience. We took pictures with them but they were in a rush; you know these celebrities.

After we did the Today Show, we got taken on a tour of NBC and we saw like where Nightly News is taped and all the secrets of that show. We saw the set of Late Night w/Conan O'Brien and realized just how sneaky television production can be. We saw the broadcasting office where all the feeds for all of NBC Universal channels go to; there were so many screens and we learned some interesting facts. Then Justin took us on a tour of inner workings of NBC like the video production headquarters and where all the servers are and where the website is worked on. It was all very very cool and we were all like really grateful to have come.

We then had lunch with the VP of NBC and a producer of Dateline named Cameo and an intern. That was very cool and we all talked and asked many questions and even gave them tips. I think they were impressed. And we learned a lot ourselves. Definitely something I will both remember and use later on in life. We left afterwards in good spirits because that was definitely a wonderful experience. We got back to HL and had a meeting with everyone there some feelings were hurt but it's over now. Then later, Shelise stopped by and we went out on POS's. I got rejected a lot and that was a bit discouraging but we pulled forward and made some contacts as well. We got crazy in the nighttime and Brad drove us home.

Tues-Pain

so i have a dentist appointment for my braces, i leave my house at 12:50 and i ended up getting to HL at 6....why i take the 4 train to 125th to take the 6 train to westchester square. when i get on the 6 train it wasnt going to westchester square so i got off the next stop to take the next one. the next one came and it was express and it was going to WESTCHESTER SQUARE. so the train STOP and it was there for like 40 minutes, and then the constructor says it has to turn back. so after the 40 mins. they freaking say we gotta turn back. so we had to get off and take the train downtown again to den swtich again to uptown. i was finally on the right train and every second "we are held by train tracfic ahead of us"...so i get to da braces place and the guy replaces the wire...NOW im in pain bcuz my teeth hurts. pain pain pain.....well at least i still made it to HL.

Bugging me

Hi everybody i am fine, just got off work and now i am at HL. Work was the usual, boring as always but luckily i only have two more weeks to go and it's over. I was so upset yesterday at work, my boss walks past my desk, i just got there and then he calls this lady backs to his desk. I knew he was talking about me because he was whispering. He told the lady that i should be doing something and blah blah blah but i just got there could he give me a minute. And plus there is nothing for me to do. I don't understand why he worries of what i am doing when  he isn't the one paying. He need to worry about his workers that be on the phone running their mouths and cursing wild crazy. If i am so important to him why don't he give me some work. Now i am organizing these papers and the nice lady told me to take as long as i can, she is so nice and gives good advice. Well let me be out, i am going out on a pos, later. 

yup

Yeah so i wrote this blog late so. Yesterday august 4, 2008 my team went out to get interviews for our half an hour show. All we did was that we went around 125 asking people questions about the presidential elections and the role of youth in the elections. We got few people we need to go out to get more people and i hope we try to ask young people about how they feel about the presidential elections. So yesterday its was really hot and we had to walk around asking people. Also yesterday we had Shelise to help us. She taught me how to black track. Black Tracking pretty much is when you record darkness for about ten seconds so that way when you edit it will help you. I was handing out Fliers, Doris was camera woman, Fatima was reporter and Shelise was our helper. yup thats about it. 

TODAY FOR AMBUSH

TODAY WAS HECTIC.I STARTED ON MY PART OF THE PRESENTATION ON FRIDAY.I WANT TO GET MY STUFF OUT THE WAY SO THAT I CAN GET READY FOR SATURDAY.SATURDAY OUR GROUP IS GOING TO THE RON ALEXANDER SHOW FOR A STORY.THIS IS PERFECT BECAUSE ALONG WITH INTERVIEWING MR.ALEXANDER,I CAN ALSO INTERVIEW THE UPCOMING ARTIST THAT WILL BE ATTENDING THE TAPING.THAT WAY WE COULD GET A MUSIC STORY,A PROFILE, AND A BEHIND THE SCENES OF A SHOW.THE FOOTAGE WE ARE GOING TO GET WILL INCORPORATE INTO OUR VIDEO MAGAZINE.THE REST OF MY GROUP SHOULD BE GOING OUT ON "PEOPLE ON THE STREET" STORIES TODAY.I HOPE EVERYONE WRITES THEIR BLOGS SINCE THE GOOFS HAVE NOW GONE UP TO SIXTY PIONTS A DAY FOR EACH PERSON WHO DOESN'T WRITE THEIR BLOG.YA'LL KNOW WHO YOU ARE SO PLEASE BLOG.IT ONLY TAKES TWO MINUTES AT THE MOST.

The counselor: Chapter 3, At the last minute

- At the last minute i wake up to take a bathe and get dressed this morning.

- At the last minute i put on my shoes to leave out the door 15 minutes before the 9th hour of the day

- At the last minute my i come through the Milbank Center's door to avoid contact with my boss

_ At the last minute i get a seat b4 he can turn his head and look at his watch..

Tickk..Tockk...9 oclock!
i am on time!
at the last minute

The coun

Chap

NBC YAY

TODAY WAS ONE OF THE BEST MONDAYS IVE HAD IN A WHILE!!! WE WENT TO NBC AND WE MET HODA, KATHY LEEE, AND OH MY GOD REV RUN FROM RUN'S HOUSE. AND WE WERE ON TV-NATIONAL TV WE JUST STOOD THERE AND WAVED BUT GOT OUR 15 SECONDS OF FAME. WE SAW THE TODAY SHOW FROM THE STUDIO AND WE SAW THE STUDIO CONAN O' BRIEN WORKS IN- ITS SO SMALL AND ALL THE EDITING ROOMS AND CAMERA TRICKS THEY DO ITS AWSOME! PLUS WE LEARNED THE HISTORY OFTHE PEACOCK LOGO AND GUESS WHAT - IM GONNA WATCH NBC EVERY MORNING FROM NOW ON BECAUSE ITS THAT COOL. THANKS SELLY FOR TAKING ME TO NBC STUDIOS I NEVER WOULD HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE ANYWHERE ELSE!!! THANX SELLY!!!!

hospital

i had to end my piano lesson early because my stomach was really acting up. at first i thought it was just gas or a stomach ache but then it got to the point when i had to go get it checked-just to see what was wrong.

at first i was going to go to my usual clinic right? but guess what- it was closed so the only other place i knew to go to was the hospital on 112th and amsterdam. after waiting for an hour and a half i got checked. i found out it was a mild stomach virus but theres no way im telling the people at harlem live that i have a stomach virus so i just told them it was a stomach ache just so they wouldnt worry too much because for me HL comes first and nothing especially some virus is gonna keep me down.

i'll have to go back tomorrow after school to get some meds for my stomach. the faster this stomach virus goes away the less i need to worry about.

TODAY in HL

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT REALLY WENT ON FRIDAY BUT I WAS TOLD THAT FIRST AMENDMENT WENT OUT LIKE A "SORE LOSER".I DON'T THINK IT WENT DOWN LIKE THAT.IF IT WAS THAT SERIOUS,THEN THEY WOULD'VE BEEN MAD THE FIRST WEEK.TEAM AMBUSH WON THE FIRST WEEK AND NOTHING CAME UP.IT WAS BLOWN COMPLETELY OUT OF PORTION.THEN IT WAS SAID THAT SOMEONE WROTE ON A BLOG THAT THE TEAM DOESN'T HAVE TO WORK HARD IF THEY WIN THE PRESENTATION.I KNOW IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN WHAT I SAID BECAUSE I STATED THAT IF WE WON THE PRESENTATION ON FRIDAY,THE OTHER TEAM WOULD HAVE TO WORK HARDER TO CATCH UP TO US.INSTEAD OF US TRYING TO GET OUR STORIES DONE AND CATCHING UP TO THEM.I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW HARLEM LIVE FLOW WON,BUT IT'S WHATEVER.THEY HAVEN'T WON YET,SO LETS GIVE THEM A CHANCE.YOU BETTER BELIEVE AMBUSH WILL MAKE OUR DEBUT SO GET READY HARLEM LIVE.

Weekend + 2day

Well remember all the headaches i was getting, turns out im SICK =( i woke up saturday morning with a throat infection and big headaches. so yea my weekend was wack bcuz was home most of the time. i only went out to get a haircut. im still sick and im taken meds but i cant let that stop me from coming to HL....As for now im going to poste stories and gain sum points to help my team..Well i hope we do good with points this week.

JUST BORED

Judges Opinio (Which i liked)

Even though we did not win the judges made me feel better. They said a lot of nice stuff in when they was judging us that i felt kind of good. I thought there was still hope for us. They said that our video was GREAT and that we did Great. What was funny about the opinions of the judges was that when they said that all the dancing part of 1st Amendment was just stupid.LOL. I thought it was good and they did it hot. But it was funny what the judges said. I hope they dont do that again next time.

Presentation Sucked for so many reasons.....

Hay dios mio.................... We Team Ambush did not win this week. I am so mad because we did so good but i got to hand it in to team 1st Amendment because they did a good job in there presentation. Guys i am not in there side but yall know they did pretty good. But anyways ether our team and 1st Amendment did not win. Well i guess we need to work extra hard to win next weeks presentation. ok so write to yall when we win and during our process of winning. LOL  

Another Week Down

So we had yet another presentation today and surprise surprise, we lost...again. In all fairness to us, I think it's the judges. You can never please them. One week they want this, next week they want that. I hope we really get to choose the judges for the final presentation so we can get John McKay who actually knows what to notice in a presentation. And then you have FirstAmendment with all their singing and poetry and dancing. They just have it all don't they. They went first and we thought right off the bat they would win because they were creative with the dancing and stuff. I think if we put more effort and practice more for our presentations, we might actually please the judges. We should start working on the next one Monday.

I don't remember what went on when we got up there because it's always a blur. I do remember being really disorganized and when we got off, I was sure we lost. HL Flow was next and their presentation was ok but like the facts were a bit messed up and the video didn't tie into the music theme. The judges however, seemed to really enjoy it cause they ended up giving it to them. At first I was annoyed that we lost but then I realized it was better for HL Flow to get one win than FA winning three times in a row.

The individual points were announced and I was in 9th place but I'm not sweating it cause I know next week it'll change. This week we're in last place, FA in second, and HL Flow in first. We gotta bring that up cause I hate losing and FA talks too much shit. This week was definitely not one of the better ones; midterms and papers at school and goofs and spiteful blogs at HL.

I think that it's good that my group had some problems this week cause if not, then I'm sure it would have simmered and bubbled over in the next few days. I hope that's all behind us cause I really do hate drama. Next week is like the last week and I know that it is going to be a very busy week. Hopefully we'll keep the goofs to a minimum and rack up the points to be in first place cause last place just doesn't suit Ambush.

TODAY

THE FINAL DAY HAS COME.WE ARE GOING TO THE LIBRARY TO FINISH UP ON OUR PRESENTATION.WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE OUR PRESENTATION IS ON POINT.SOME OF MY GROUP DOESN'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WINNING THE PRESENTATION.IF WE WIN THE PRESENTATION WE DON'T HAVE TO WORK AS HARD AS THE REST OF THE TEAM BECAUSE WE RECEIVE ENOUGH POINTS TO CATCH US UP .SO REAM STEP UP AND GET ON YA JOBS.BEST BELIEVE I WILL BE ON MINES.

thursday is crazy.i had to come in late because i went to see my mother.then my team went on a story to a tattoo/art gallery.by the time i got home,i was beat.we established some video for our presentation today on music in new york for the summer.thank god that the week is ending.we just need to win the presentation so that we could remain in the lead.so lets go and rack up these points.

 today is friday and you know what that means...

PRESENTATION DAY!!!  

and what better way to start off the day than to do chores and points?

oh and as usual at 1:30 we have a meeting and we go out to do our presentations at 2:00.

then theres the presentation

will ambush pull this one out the whole?

i dont know but i can sure hope so...

The counselor: Chapter 1

today is Friday August 1st and i have no remorse for calling out from work today. I needed a rest from dealing with my annoying kids. Since my check is looking real good and im feeling good, everything should hopefully go well 2day with me. probably the only thing thatwould dissapoint me is coming to HL early and not finishing up what i came to do and giving a less chance for my team to win the presentation. from the dissapointment of last weks decision, i feel like we shuld work even harder. If just one poem, which was such a great peom and well presented, can be a great contribution to a presentation, then we shuld what i call, "get on our Sh**".