Sorry for the delay, but I should wrap this blog up. Most of the 21 or so people who follow this blog would know by now that I'm back in Ottawa. I got home on Oct 3rd and was at work Oct 4ht. My new gig is with a new show called "The West Block with Tom Clark". I'm assigned to the show as the ENG Tech, or basically the camera, editor and handle all the field shoots.
We started off with a bang by heading to the G20 in Cannes, France. We had a sit down interview with the Prime Minister, and did the show live from France. Since that time we have done a few road trips and had sit down interviews with the likes of John McCain, Peter MacKay, and Premier Redford of Alberta.
The show is full HD, and I've been able to get a lot of new toys to play with. The nice part is that get to do a lot of lighting and fortunately I'm given sometime for set up.
It wasn't really a tough call to pull the plug on China. I've had a great run with it and enjoyed it immensely. There are so many stories that we didn't get to. The few we did really opened my eyes to the world and what's going on it. I will miss all the people. Including Ben O'Hara Byrne, who was instrumental in getting me there in the first place, Jas Johal, who came after Ben, and Zhai Qi, Fan Di the people who worked for us there, and the many, many other friends I made while being there.
I would have loved to have stayed, but home was calling me back. It's time reconnect with family and friends for a while. Perhaps if I'm lucky enough to get another chance at something like this I do think I'll grab it, but, I hope Maggi will join me for it.
Since being home, I'm on a Wednesday to Sunday shift. It's a nice way to move back in to Ottawa. If I had to go back to the daily grind, I think it would be a much harder adjustment. The weekly deadline allows us to work on stuff with some thought and time for set up and reflection.
I'm hope that I'm not done completely with spot news, as I do miss that spontaneous challenges that it brings.
Anyways, I haven't figured out how I'm going to modify the blog or start a new chapter.
I'd just like to end this by thanking my wife and family for there support as I traveled the world and put myself through some interesting situations that they may have been less than pleased with. Without their support I never would have been able to do this.
Cheers everyone and will let you know what happens in the next chapter.
Barry
