Big day of big news

Here's the good news first. A couple of weeks ago, I kicked up the exchange effort and sent through my first application for an internship, which I need to complete before I can graduate from journalism. Five days later, I was faced with an email interview with Haley, a producer at KXAN News.

Of course I was pretty nervous, but also happy that I didn't have to get dolled-up to sit in front of my laptop. The general knowledge questionnaire was tricky seeing as I didn't know the Mayor of Austin, or any Texan members of the U.S. Senate. Luckily the quiz wasn't a linchpin.

So this morning I was greeted by an email from Haley, and to my surprise they wanted me, in all my curious, Aussie ways. Hooray! Me? An intern at a U.S. news organisation!!! This will be in-ter-esting!

OK the bad news (although not so bad in reality) is that when I finally got round to find out the bank I joined last year on the roadtrip, I discovered to my dismay that it was indeed Washington Mutual: the largest bank failure in U.S. history!!!!! And it happened only a month after I joined. I have absolutely no idea what I should be doing about that, but I guess I'll have to wait till I get there. It's on the list: find out what happened to roadtrip money.

OH!!!! And some other exciting news. I met Curtis Stone on Wednesday!!!!!! Who is Curtis Stone? Well he's a bit of a celebrity Australian chef and quite popular with Ms Winfrey. That's me wearing one of my work uniforms (on my lunch break of course).