So all of last week, our year had work experience. Myself and Róisín went to raidio nd life, an Irish radio station in Dublin. I was surprisingly calm on our first day, but definatley excited. We got the bus into pearse street and walked to merrion square. Everyone who worked at the station was really nice and friendly, one of our supervisors gave us a tour of the studios and how everything worked. We spent the first day working on stories for that evenings talk show and ringing up people for interviews. We had to speak Irish the whole day, and at first it was a bit hard because both me and róisín were kind of rusty but soon we got so used to it on our lunch brakes we'd be speaking Irish without realizing it.
The atmosphere there was so relaxed and easy going, and there wasn't a particular dress code or anything. On wedensday one of the sound technicians showed us how to use the equipment for doing a show on air, and we got to do it ourselves for a pre-recorded music programme. We did this thing called a vaux pop aswell,it's where you pick a certain topis and interview the public or people on the streets to record their opinion on the subject. We went onto the streets of Grafton to intervies passers by about a controversial mini Miss Ireland pageant in St. Pats College. At first it was hard to approach people but after a while it got easier, the challenge was finding people who spoke irish! We edited the recordings together and it aired on the show that night :)
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