All I want for Christmas is a pass at 100wpm

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas... It might only be mid-November but here at News Associates we all seem to have our eyes glued on December 25.

As an early Christmas present a lucky ten passed their shorthand exam!!!!  So I think that more than deserves a big, bolded:

WELL DONE J

Not to say that we weren’t encouraged – armed with woolly hats, gloves, scarfs, and a hot mug of mulled wine we descended upon the Christmas markets to find a story and either write up our findings or video our discoveries.

The Christmas markets provided us with many traders and shoppers to interview – although some seemed to have had one German Wheat Beer too many…

Some groups were met with demands to hand over their camera being told ‘this is private property’ but our skilled law knowledge came into force and after a tense few moments the baffled security guard left – without our camera!!

Let’s just hope we don’t have a similar fiasco when filming our actual video piece!

Two weeks away from our real reporting exam we had “the most important reporting lesson we’ve ever had so far” – a mock exam.

It wasn’t all bad though we did get a whole hour for lunch – which felt surprisingly long.

It was a tough two and half hours but afterwards we descended upon the Christmas Markets again for another hot mug of mulled wine and discussed the colour scheme for a possible News Associates Christmas tree. We got as far as deciding that it would be green...

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