Radio Feature

Talent: Meier, Herman

Scotland Trip

TRT: 02:04

10-25-13

NAT SOUND: Birds chirping

ANCHOR: It’s a 8 a.m. While most students can be found sleeping, Senior Christina Bolt is hard at work for KWSU.

NAT SOUND: Keyboard and mouse clicks

With every keystroke and click of the mouse Bolt gets closer to completing her project, but her job is not the only thing on her mind.

Bolt enjoys reminiscing about the full semester she spent studying abroad in Scotland.

[Bolt Bites.m4a]

BOLT: “I miss it so much, it was a new experience everyday over there, different people everything was so different.”

ANCHOR: Although an enjoyable trip, her time was not all fun and games.

Bolt chose to study in Scotland to expand her knowledge on producing documentaries and was excited to get to work. Blot was in for a surprise when she arrived at the school as she discovered that the teaching style overseas is very different from Washing State University.

[Bolt Bites.m4a]

BOLT: “It’s really made me appreciate the way they teach things over here that I really enjoy learning this way and it does fit my learning style. And that people in other countries do have it harder than us the way they are taught, especially in the UK, this just works for me more.”

ANCHOR: Life in Scotland for Bolt was vastly different than it was in the US.

At times the transition was not easy as Bolt did not have access to a car.  

[Bolt Bites.m4a]

Nat Sound: Cart rolling + Checkout beep + buss rolling

BOLT: “Over there I had to go to the store and get groceries on a bus and then walk them from the bus, which was very far. And then up four flights of stairs, that kind of sucked.”

ANCHOR: Even though her friends knew she was having a great experience half a world away, as her friend Denise Gibbs points out, they still missed her back home.

GIBBS: It was crazy to think that Christina was on the other side of the world for 6 months and I just couldn’t talk to her whenever I wanted to like normal.

ANCHOR: And although Bolt loves Washington State University and living in Pullman, she will not hesitate to share her desire to return.

[Bolt Bites.m4a]

BOLT: “ Until you go there you don’t understand the people or anything. It’s defiantly easier for me to understand other people’s cultures now. From going over there and meeting them and seeing what it’s really like and not what a movie has showed me. You’re in a different country. It’s way more fun than you think it’s going to be, I would love to go back to Scotland.”

ANCHOR: In Pullman, I’m Herman Meier.