Do you Know who I am?

If I was to explain to someone what I looked like, my complexion, the colour of my eyes my height and weight, would they know who I was? Say I told them my age, my distinctive marks and peculiarities and habits would they be able to tell me from a crowd?

Would that person be able to know that I want to be a world class journalist, and that I think that the reason the world engages in war and hates on people they have never seen before, is because they are ill informed and ignorant, if I told that person I had 4 piercings would they know? When I tell someone that I look a certain way and I am of a certain nationality, that is only a piece of the pie and a very small one, its like a shell with nothing inside only when I tell you that I dream of going to work for Time magazine one day and that when I read a newspaper and see someone’s by-line, for half a second I see my name on it, will my build not matter. What kind of person am I, with my friends I am someone else, with my family I am another totally different person, what do I think I will bring to the journalism industry with this type of complex behaviour. I want people to be able to say that I changed their point of view about the Zimbabwean issue or a person confronting a government issue because I wrote that story that some deemed to boring and for uneducated people who don’t even read never-mind by the paper. When every body conforms to the money world, writes for money, or become lawyers and accountants, I want to be the person who always stood by her word, to help inform and educate and make them laugh.

Hence until you spare some of your time to talk to me, you would never know that in today’s money hungry world, only drive will take me to were I want to be and knowing that someone out there still likes to read their newspaper with a cup of coffee in the morning. Therefore I am confident to say that you would not have been able to tell by my facial hair round neck and eyebrows.

all you need to know

“Journalism is organized gossip.”
Edward Eggleston

Gossip is a powerful tool in journalism. But more so, information that people don’t know is a powerful tool. It is human nature to want to know what others know. So, if you think about it logically, being a journalist therefore gives you alot of power, it makes you an important person. I want to be an important person. I want to have power. I can tell you now that I’m not going to get that through Bob Mugabe death tactics. So thats why i’m a Rhodes first year journalism student. My name is Andrew Brukman. I’m from Cape Town but went to school in Grahamstown.Our blog is about sharing experiences through writing – or blogging to be more specific. People experience different events and places in different ways because so many different factors, race, sex or ways of viewing life. So why not blog about these different perspectives of events. We are gong to be challenging eachother to do things which we wouldn’t normally do. Something out of our comfort zone. We believe that by doing this it opens up your perspective of life and makes you consciously think of what you are experiencing. Something which is different gives you the ability to compare what is normal to you. How are we going to do this? We have in our group two black girls and two white guys. What better way than to have a set of people so opposite in order to experience different events or places. The great thing about this is that these challenged will no doubt spark debates and issues will be raised which we will be able to write about. This is going to be fun

“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.”
Edward Steichen

what kind of blogger am i?

Different people have different personalities. With each person we interact with some parts of your personality is shown to them but with each person we interact with we present ourselves in a different way.
Being a journalism student enables one to voice their opinions on the world we live in. when one becomes a journalist your views on life change or you develop greater knowledge than you had before due to the different thoughts and views that are expressed over time. When one blogs they express their personal views on a certain issues for instance the type of political system we are living in compared to the one years ago, but also at the same time accepts other people’s opinions and tries not to be negative. The kind of style that is written is usually aimed at journalism students who might find what you write interesting and might want to contrast and compare it to their own personal knowledge. We might all live in the same world but we see life differently to others. As a journalist student you speak and project your voice for those who are never listened to when spoken and try not to be biased. When one blogs you learn about how other people live, you interact with other journalists in different societies that you never imagined would be possible. As a journalist you read and get inspired by those who have written and blogged pieces of writing that might changed your life but also you question and challenge your ways of thinking. It is never about you look like but it is all about your personality and the type of characteristics you have, and how ambitious you are about life that makes you a good journalist. One must never think that learning stops at a certain but everyday you learn something that might help you in the near future. What some people never understand is that without journalist the world would never be as advanced and connected as it is today. People always say that solders in the wars are the most important people but I say the journalist who put their lives in front for a story so that the world would be informed is the true solider. They never get called up but volunteer for them that this is what I want, this is my job and it is up to me to make a difference. If being a journalist is all about the pay check at the end of the month than you are at the wrong place but if it is about the passion and the love for journalist that toy are a journalist student. A true journalist never stops reading because a reading journalist is a good journalist.

who are we?

this is the team.....
we are journalism student from grahamstown, rhodes univeristy. as you have already noticed our blog name is grahamstown diaries. we will be covering various things in our blog for instant our members consists of two white guys and two black girls. we will be challenging eachother to do things that are outside our comfort zone. we will attempin the unattempted things. other topics will be covered for instance music review, movies reviews, politics in grahamstown and as students that affect us in our everyday lives. what is the latest trend in fashion and any issues that will be on our mind that we would like to address. the main aim of this group is to show that it doesn matter weather your black or white we all can do the unexpected.