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"Now," Mrs Virginia
DeView said, smiling, "we are going to discover our professions." The
class seemed to be greatly surprised. Our professions? We were only 13 and 14
years old! The teacher must be 1.
"Yes, you will all be searching for your future 2. Each of you will have to 3 someone in your field, plus give an oral
report."
Each day in her class, Virginia
DeView reminded us about this. Finally, I picked print journalism. This 4 I
had to go to interview a true-blue newspaper reporter. I was extremely nervous.
I sat down in front of him 5 able to speak. He looked at me and said,"
Did you bring a pencil or pen?"
I shook my head.
"How about some 6?"
I shook my head again.
Finally, I thought he realized I
was 7,
and I got my first big tip as a 8:
"Never, never go anywhere without a pen and paper. You never know what
you'll run into." After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from 9 in class. I got an A on the entire project.
Years
later, I was in college looking around for a new career, but with no success.
Then I 10 Virginia DeView and my desire at 13 to be a
journalist. And I called my parents. They didn't 11me.
They just reminded me how competitive the field was and 12 all my life I had run away from competition.
This was true. But journalism did something to me; it was in my blood. 13gave me the freedom to go up to total
strangers and ask what was 14.
For the past 12 years, I've had
the most satisfying reporting career, 15 stories from murders to airplane crashes and 16 choosing my strongest area. 17 I
went to pick up my phone one day, an incredible wave of memories hit me and I
realized that had it not been 18 Virginia DeView, I would not be sitting at
that desk.
I get 19 all the time:" How did you pick
journalism?"
"Well, you see, there was a
teacher…" I always start out. I just wish I could 20 her.
