On Tuesday my mentor told me to try to fix an interview with Anders Ygeman, the interior minister of Sweden about an attack on an ambulance a few days earlier. I sent a mail to his press secretary in the evening and asked for an interview. He answered the next day, Fokus has a good reputation so the press secretary said that the interior minister, called Anders Ygeman, had time for a short talk before lunch. I went to my mentor and told him that Ygeman was free to interview. - Then he told me to prepare, he had forgotten to mention that I should do the interview and I had assumed I was booking for one of them as I hadn't done any such stuff before and had been told that I wouldn't the first two weeks.
By now it was about 11.20 and the press secretary told me Ygeman was ready in twenty minutes. I knew the incident that we would be talking about well enough but interviewing one of the most important and currently unusually sought after ministers was not what I had expected. The interview I was going to do always consists of five questions so I had to come up with them pretty quick. My mentor did the same and some of our questions were the same but we had a few different, in the end I asked him 7 questions.
I told his press secretary that I was ready whenever they called and so they did. My hands were ice cold and it wasn't because of my chill that had stuck around for a while and isn't gone yet. The interview actually worked very well, I stayed calm when I asked the questions and added some more during the interview. We talked for five minutes, then said goodbye. It wasn't more complicated than any other interview. If I had tried to push him he would most likely avoid the question well and say what he wanted to say but as that wasn't the case it worked out fine.
After I got 45 minutes to write the text. I used the first ten to take the interview from recording to written, then had to remove two questions/answers and rewrite the rest of the text to be shorter and not "spoken language" which is a lot different from written. I got it done in time even if was far from the best text I've ever written. I'm quite sure my mentor intended to really test how good I was as a journalist and I think I passed the test quite well.
Tomorrow it's a new week and I'm really curious about what I'll get to do. I will be responsible for what I did the first two weeks but now probably some aditional things too. I doubt it will be concerning someone as important as a minister but it will probably be a lot of fun and I'm sure I'll learn a lot from it. Really looking forward to it.
As it's Valentines day today I'd better write some other things I like as well - I'll call it love for now -.
I love that winter is going away soon, even if it has come back stronger the last week.
I love that I get the chance to meet a lot of old friends from my elementary school, gymnasium and elsewhere.
I love that I passed my last test and wont have any more until autumn.
I love that I'm most likely going to get to work as a sports teacher for around 8 year old kids a week or two this summer. I wouldn't want to work as it full time but for a week or two it's just wonderful, I love kids.
I love the number 17, which for some reason is my new lucky number. It used to be 8, I'm not really sure why it has changed but it has. It's a nice number :)