I’ve started my second year at the University of St. Andrews, and I feel like I’ve barely had time to breathe. With the increased workload and abundance of school activities and functions, there is never a dull moment here in Scotland. However, I decided that it was finally time to sit down and write a post about one of my most exciting weekends to date.
As most of my Facebook friends will know (because of my frequent and incessant postings) I recently interviewed Hugh Grant and Jamie Dornan, amongst other famous celebrities. What many people don’t understand is why I did this. People seem to reject my response that it’s because I’m super famous and popular, and they wanted to talk to me.
The real reason is that I am the Vice President of the student television network in St. Andrews (wooo go BubbleTV!) Because of this, the President and I covered the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, which is a golf tournament held at The Old Course in St. Andrews. Many renowned golfers and amateurs (celebrities) participated in the tournament and town festivities. We were lucky enough to obtain press passes and witness the tournament alongside other (professional) media outlets.
From the Wednesday (practice day)- Sunday of the tournament, we spent all day, every day at the course. Most days, I seemed to have my life together: I wore cute outfits, brushed my hair, and put on some makeup. Of course, Saturday morning (after getting only 3 hours of sleep… late night of karaoke) it was POURING down rain. My only rain jacket with a hood is bright yellow… so when I had the privilege of interviewing Hugh Grant and Jamie Dornan, I looked like a freaking human minion. That doesn’t matter, I charmed them anyway. They were so kind to give a few minutes of their time before teeing off. Luckily everything happened so quickly that I did not have time to get nervous until after the interviews.
The entire experience was something I will cherish forever, as cheesy as that may sound. It was also my first experience with journalism on a somewhat professional level, especially considering most of my previous film experience has been scripted. Comparing the two is like comparing apples and oranges. I would definitely say that this was way more stressful… we had to hope and plan ahead of time to make sure that we’d be in the right place at the right time.
Luckily, we were pretty successful and created an awesome video that you can check out here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?
