A BIG decision!!!

Today I got an email. This email starts with, "Dear Aspiring Journalists, Congratulations to each of you for your acceptance into the WJI New York Convergence course to be held this May 11-30! We are looking forward to meeting you."

 

This is to say that the World Journalism Course that I had applied for, well I was accepted.

 

So I have a BIG decision to make. Going for the course is a major opportunity. Only 13 students were accepted this year and I was one of them. It means I would finally get to go to NYC – not just go but go to school there and work there for 3 weeks. It would give me exposure to many prominent journalist, force me to practice and hone my skills as a journalist while learning many new things. And one of the things I think about is that as I'm working on starting a project to teach impoverished children writing/media skills this would give me more knowledge and skills which I can pass on to them. If you want to know more about the course check out WJI New York Convergence Course.

 

The negative sides include that I have to be gone from Kenya for 1 month. And that is 1 month at a time when I have many amazing opportunities here: writing for the Nation Newspaper, working with Nairobi Chapel, working with K Krew in their radio and TV programs, website and missions, starting my impoverished children's media program in three schools and possibly in some of the Compassion Int'l projects, and who knows what else. It would definitely be hard to leave right now.

 

Yet I think, its just for a month, all of those things will still be here when I come back and this opportunity might never come again. I mean what journalist wouldn't love to get their start in NYC??? I applied for this course during the turmoil that was Kenya in January, feeling that I was actually eligible and that since life was so confusing, it might be a good time to go for it. Now life is not so confusing and I have so many things going on but I still did apply because I felt I should.

 

Please pray with me as I make this decision over the next few days. Also pray that God will provide the necessary finances: I need a plane ticket from here to probably Atlanta and then to NYC and back, I will also need money for personal expenses and other things that come up. Thankfully I have the money I made writing for WORLD which will cover the tuition fee.

 

AHHH, I'm excited. God has provided me with SO MANY opportunities. Actually I'm writing this blog while I wait for a pastor to come back to his office so I can interview him for an article I'm working on. This whole week as been filled with meetings and interviews and believe me, I LOVE my job!! Like I said God is doing amazing things!