on the spot

Was sent to join activities held by another voluntary orgnization these two days. The activity was aimed at stop people from spitting and littering. CBC(yesterday) and NBC(this morning) were with us and are going to air the news in the following few weeks.

CBC took us quite a long time to finish shooting. They kept waiting for a good issue/ event to occur. And their patience recieved a good reward. A young man spitted on the road and wasn't willing to swap it, while we were trying to convince him that it was not correct, a passer-by couldn't stand it and said, "Give me the tissue, I'll swap it for him." And she later joined us in convincing him into admit his fault. They later have interviews with both the young man and the lady.

NBC took it a lot easier, we did our thing and they follow us. But they design some situations and scenes as well. I don't think they're taking the same strategy as CBC. But they look a lot more professional. They have a producer, a girl for translating, a man for interviewing and two for sound-recording and filming. They even had a small interview with me and another volunteer, pretty exciting. The video will be aired in the TV show "Today." I think it's pretty famous around, for even though we don't watch NBC in Taiwan, I heard of that show before.

This trip to Beijing made me realized the importance of language ability and I do benefit from it so far. Hope Zhang could insist on English studying even after I leave here. Then this could be a small positive impact I made during the internship. :)