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Journal of Philippo Sisko

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Journal of Philippo Sisko
student, journalist, freelance writer

Monday, September 24th, 2018
01:39 AM

A good start of the week! I’m still getting adjusted to my new job, but things seem to be going well. It helps that I have a few friends from university who came here as well, so I’m not totally isolated. I always hate that about new environments: having to start from zero in terms of making friends.

After work, to celebrate the start of our second week, we went to the usual lounge to have some snacks and a few drinks. I was tired, but we’d promised to meet. It wasn’t so bad and I had fun, so no issues, right? Granted, this will cost me tomorrow, when I have to get up early. Even now that I’m writing this I’m already yawning and struggling to keep my eyes open, but I promised Mr Varoufakis, my Contemporary Selenid Literature professor, that I’d blog as often as possible.

Oh, speaking of blogging, I suppose I should summarise the day’s events, for posterity. Today the attended the opening of the Friendship Festival, an annual event organised by the Sartorian Embassy. It was quite fun: there was typical Sartorian food –which I love-, traditional dances, an exhibition on Sartorian technological advances, and some speeches by the Ambassador and our Foreign Minister. I had to write a draft article for the Herald, under the supervision of another reporter.

I was also asked to write an article about this explosion near the border with Kalos. That one was boring: apparently there was a skirmish along the border, some kind of confrontation between Kalon and Selenid border patrols, but the government is keeping everything under wraps, so there wasn’t much to write about. I struggled to draft the article, and in the end my supervisor admitted that the little I’d written was all that could be realistically said about the event. She said she’d sent a message to a correspondent near the border, to see if they could find out more, but she wasn’t feeling too confident that there is much of a story with this.

In any case, I really am falling asleep now, so that’ll be all for now. Good night world!



Philippo Sisko is an undergraduate student of Selenid Literature at the University of Byzantium. When he's not urban exploring, he likes to write silly stories. He's a Junior Correspondent at The Byzantium Herald, and wants to specialise in travel journalism.

Philippo is on Upper and Canvas.




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