Tuesday, March 10, 2009

A New Class


Hello and welcome to my blog.  I have started writing again because a new class has started.  This time it is a class entitled New Media.  New media will allow us to get a look into what the future of the communications industry will bring to us.  The industry is moving down a path toward more user generated material.  As a society we all have the means and the technology to be a blogger or make wikis as well as create podcasts.  Anyone today can be the journalist they may have always dreamed about.  

Over this past break it was actually very uneventful.  One of the things that I did was that I had a nice little birthday party for my grandma who turned 86 this year.  I sat down and talked to her for a while because I was actually very interested in some of the stories that she had to tell about her and my grandpa during the time of World War II.  One story that she told me was of something my grandpa did during D Day.  My grandpa went over to Normandy a few days after the invasion took place.  As he and his infantry were running up the hill he noticed some of them were not there.  He ran back and grabbed the men and saved them from almost certain death.  Another story I loved was that he actually had to go into hiding in France for a few months because he had lost his brigade. 

 It was very interesting talking to my grandma and hearing these stories that I had never heard before about my grandpa because he never really talked about it.  I think its because it was what he was trained to do and never really thought of it as heroic.  

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