News station visit -June 20, 2007

The highlight of this day was visiting a scenic newsroom station.
The beginning of the day went as most days do: wake up - dress - breakfast - class. After class ended we had time until our 2PM appointment with the professor. While waiting for two, I and a friend walked over to a vegetarian restaurant almost 15 minutes away. The restaurant features a well prepared buffet and a waiter who brings you your drink. The food is so good... it makes me want to be a vegetarian! To describe the food is hard, but there's definitely flavor in those vegetables, it's not just lettuce. There's rolls of who knows what, breaded jelly, Chinese style noodles, weird but good lasagna, breaded pastries and of course a variety of diced fruit. It's also rather cheap, a little over four dollars for the plate and drink.
For the newsroom visit we went up to the very top of a hill were the news is broadcasted with ease. The view was breathtaking and as many of us posed for a photo it served as an ideal description of our trip- journalist students on their way to a news station by a small but mesmeric look of the world.
The tour was interesting as an English speaking Brazilian employee took us through the many assets of a popular news station. We got to see a professional recording studio, an elaborate newsroom with numerous television sets on the walls (all in different channels), two radio stations, and two to three rooms through which they broadcast news shows.
After the detailed tour, most of the group made their way to a popular mall by the sea side. It's one of nicest malls in the island people say. It's a complex building with seven floors- three for shopping, one of administration and three for parking. It was unusual in the fact that the top three floors were reserved for parking! While it is common for our buildings to have lower level parking floors, it seems common for them to have parking toward the top of the building. So there we went, shopping and wine tasting on the lower level floor with tons and tons of weight positioned six floors above us.