World Traveler

is what my friends are calling me. Two days after crossing the pond home, I left for Washington, D.C. along with 5 girls from The Chimes staff for the ACP conference. "ACP?," you ask. ACP stands for Associated Collegiate Press. Each Fall, in conjuction with the College Media Association, a conference located at a journalism capitol in the United States is generated. This year the locale became D.C.

The six of us girls headed out Wednesday evening around 7 and arrived in the political capitol of the U.S. at 8:20 the next morning. After checking into our hotel, we walked to the conference hotel a few blocks away. The weather, although a bit chilly compared to California, was great in the high 50s. Simple registration, a few scans of the conference program, and we were on our way to sessions.

Three days later, we had attended approximately 3-5 sessions a day, had our newspaper print edition critiqued, our online edition critiqued, taken "field trips" and expanded our knowledge of the current trends in journalism as well as inspired to improve our newspaper.

Pictures and stories to follow...