Day at the fair = coolest internship ever

By Katherine Waters

Sun Staff Intern

NORWICH – In my almost three-month stay at The Evening Sun, I have not been asked to do any embarrassing tasks as an intern. In fact, I didn’t even fetch the coffee until the opening of Dunkin’ Donuts when I was there at 5 a.m. I thought to myself that this must be the best internship ever. I’m allowed to write about what I want. They trust me to make phone calls and do interviews, and they even liked my “Punching the Clock” article. I thought I had it made, until the fair waltzed in to town and I was lucky enough to be assigned a task with Sun Staff Writer Jessica Lewis.

Now granted, at the age of 20 some may say my work experience is limited. Even so, I do not think it is normal for your boss to hand you a 20 dollar bill and assign you to spend it at the fair. The task was to be able to do as much as possible without going over $20 between Jessica and I. This was obviously going to be fun.

For $20, we wanted to have lunch, ride a ride, play a game (Jessica wanted to win a gold fish), have dessert and leave satisfied that we had participated in one of Chenango County’s largest events.

We decided first to explore the things we could do for free. We wandered through the exhibition hall and out to the 4-H section where we saw the bovine competition take place. Their heads were nice to look at, but the judge was looking at the other end. I don’t know why.