![]() I also loved learning more about Diwali and how it is celebrated. I could feel the excitement and energy of the moment. ![]() The scenes with Nikki and Yash out together celebrating Diwali in the city at night where so perfect too. I can see why it was mentioned and am happy I got to learn about it thanks to this book. I spent some time looking up each place mentioned to learn more and see it firsthand and wow! What a city!? The mosque mentioned in Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, is incredibly beautiful. I really enjoyed the trip aspect of the book as well and felt like I was on the best tour bus ever getting the highlights of all the best places in Dubai. I loved the little bits of comedic relief she brought to the story and how she could make both Yash and Nikki blush. Her relationship with her family was so special especially with her sister, Lilly. It was smart and funny and heartwarming too! I loved Nikki, stubborn and frustrating but funny and passionate too. "Was this how Americans felt during Christmas? Like everyone just celebrated it? Or they assumed they knew what today was and was thrown around in a joyful anticipatory atmosphere boldly shimmering with holiday spirit out in the open?" Not everyone here is the same, but we're part of the whole." "We've only ever been in a bubble celebrating our culture. We go out of our way to collect them, bring them securely into our lives, cherish them, protect them, maintain their beauty. And those friendships are like fine gold. We have superficial friends, acquaintances, people who shouldn't be trusted at all, passerbys. "But one thing I've learned is that good friends are hard to find. Since I listened on audiobook, these quotes may not be completely accurate but they really stuck out to me: I will definitely be reading more by this author and listening to more audiobooks narrated by this voice actor! Very impressed. I absolutely loved everything about this book: the setting of Dubai sight seeing during Diwali's celebration week (foods and drinks galore!), Nikki's supportive parents and younger sister, Nikki and Yash's dynamic, and the focus of photography and visual art. And why it mattered.” For the rest of the year, she says, every assignment had a secret-a hidden point that the students had to figure out in order to produce a good story.Eeeeeekkk! This audiobook is amazing! Teenage photographer, Nikki, is forced to spend time with her (ex) best friend, Yash, after a summer of avoidance following a falling out between the two when both their families take a trip to Dubai for Diwali. It wasn’t enough to know the who, what, when, and where you had to understand what it meant. “In that instant I realized that journalism was not just about regurgitating the facts but about figuring out the point. Finally, he said, “The lead to the story is ‘There will be no school next Thursday.’” “It was a breathtaking moment,” Ephron recalls. Then he laid them aside and paused for a moment. According to Ephron, she and most of the other students produced leads that reordered the facts and condensed them into a single sentence: “Governor Pat Brown, Margaret Mead, and Robert Maynard Hutchins will address the Beverly Hills High School faculty Thursday in Sacramento.blah, blah, blah.” The teacher collected the leads and scanned them rapidly. Robert Maynard Hutchins, and California governor Edmund ‘Pat’ Brown.” The budding journalists sat at their typewriters and pecked away at the first lead of their careers. Among the speakers will be anthropologist Margaret Mead, college president Dr. Peters, the principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire high school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new teaching methods. The teacher reeled off the facts: “Kenneth L. They would write the lead of a newspaper story. ![]() As students sat in front of their manual typewriters, Ephron’s teacher announced the first assignment. ![]() To get the facts, you track down the five Ws-who, what, where, when, and why. Although the students had no journalism experience, they walked into their first class with a sense of what a journalist does: A journalists gets the facts and reports them. Ephron still remembers the first day of her journalism class. She became a journalist because of her high school journalism teacher. Ephron started her career as a journalist for the New York Post and Esquire. “Nora Ephron is a screenwriter whose scripts for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seattle have all been nominated for Academy Awards.
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