Archive for July, 2008
Sansouci Palace in Potsdam
Here are the IIJ Summer 08 team: Peter and his beautiful wife, Andrea and her kids and the participants
I just can’t imagine how a King will visualize such a beautiful architectural design in the 17th Century as Sansouci Palace in Potsdam. (more…)
1 comment July 31, 2008
HIV/AIDS: Shocking Advocacy at InWEnt
Thuy,Linh,Arthur, Van Ane & Tung
Grace, Julie, Regina, Richard and Roadwin during the group exercise
Line (standing), Regina (sitting) and Tung from Vietnam
How will you feel as a journalists if you are told you have to write to convince your governments to legalised the oldest profession on earth prostitution (referred to as Commercial Sex Workers), homosexuality (referred to as MSM: men having sex with men) and Intravenous drug users (IDU) as the only way to finding lasting solutions to the spread of HIV/AIDS?
But that is the shocking revelations Regina and Line told us today. (more…)
2 comments July 28, 2008
Obama Fever in Berlin
- Obamamenia
Despite our three weeks plans to sit at an advantaged position close to the stage where Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama was to make his infectious speech and possibly get a handshake as pressmen participating in the ongoing Multimedia and Online Journalism by InWEnt IIJ, that was not to be because of the 200,000 people that turned up. (more…)
2 comments July 28, 2008
Live at Olympiastadion for Hertha BSC vs. Liverpool
Jalal,Richard,Sid and Julie having a bit b4 Hertha BSC vs Liverpool match
The Management of InWEnt International Institute of Journalism (IIJ) is not sparing anything to ensure we enjoy our two months stay in Berlin.
VIP gate for the press
I am not a Liverpool fan but I just wanted to be at the Olympiastadion having heard so much about it.
The match between Hertha BSC and Liverpool at Olympiastadion was for 7.45p.m German time but we arrived 30 minutes early and still had it smooth entering the stadium.
The fact that journalism is the best profession in the world was again demonstrated when we were given express entrance at the VIP gate to the stadium.
The fans cut across all age brackets from the young to the very old, they were there live. (more…)
Add comment July 23, 2008
Sachsenhausen: The Holocaust Did Happen
Leaving the S-Bahn train to the camp
When participants were asked to indicate interests to go the Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen (the concentration camp used by Adolf Hitler to perpetrate the evil against the Jews and perceived political opponents), nothing prepared us for the painful picture Dr. Horst Seferens (in charge of the media at the centre) was to paint. If ever anybody was in denial, that changed as soon as we embarked on the tour of the facility. (more…)
3 comments July 22, 2008
Why is hard to blog in Berlin
Ulf and Peter during training
Guys, if you happen to go through the kind of drilling from Peter, Jan and Ulf (the three trainers at the IIJ InWEnt 2008 Multimedia and Online Journalism) in the past three weeks?, you will understand why is not easy to blog daily.
Even though there are things that happened in the past weeks that should have had me running to blog every minute, but guys, class resumes at 9.30 and from the hostel to the Institute it takes about 40 to 50 minutes to get there, that is if you leave the hostel at 8a.m. Then once you are there, all you want to do is check you mails. No sooner have you sat down and here comes Peter announcing: “ok ladies and gentlemen, turn off the screen of you computer and change to the other room plueeeeeeeeeeze”.
6 comments July 19, 2008
My German Experience
Fun photo before boarding the train
I am right now in Berlin, attending a course on multimedia and online journalism by the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) and InWEnt (Capacity Building International) from June 28 to August 30 in Berlin, Germany.
I and 15 other journalists from Africa, Asia and South America have been offered admission for the course by the IIJ, towards broadening our knowledge and skills in journalism.
The course seeks to also improve our knowledge, understanding and reporting of key development policies strategies between the developing and least developed countries and the industrialised countries, which will improve our contributions to our employers. (more…)
4 comments July 3, 2008
