Day 12 (Friday, June 23)

© The Associated Press

Yesterday I was given a training plan, which I must follow in order to have a successful internship. In it, it talks about all that I will be doing week by week. The first week is dedicated to office stuff, like the stuff I have been writing about these past couple of days It will be a while, according to the plan, before I start shooting assignments on my own.

Well, that went out the door today. Last night a group of men was arrested in Miami and charged with alleged terrorist ties. Some of the charges include the belief that they were going to do something at the Sears Tower here in Chicago.

Wow! That's pretty scary considering that the Sears Tower is less than a quarter mile away from The Associated Press office. Wow!

The AP office was pretty busy with that story this morning. And when there was an announcement that the local authorities will be having a press conference and there were no staff photographers available I was sent out to "get your feet wet" as my editor said.

I hopped on a cab and headed out to the assignment. The press conference was just so that authorities could make sure that the locals knew that this threat was nothing to worry about and that there was never any danger.

I was pretty happy for going on my first assignment. Learning the system and the workflow with the AP is cool, but I have been real anxious to go out and shoot. Today I got that chance and I was able to put my photos on the network. These photos were sent out worldwide. I guess this makes me official. I have a photo that is available to all AP subscribers in the 121 countries it serves.

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