My first shoot yesterday started at 9:00. I drove into the city and made it to the office at 8:30, when I was suppose to begin setting up for the shoot. I quickly grabbed the heavy bags of gear and started my trek on foot. On 17th street, someone yelled after me and handed me the small notebook that had fallen out of my back pocket. Apparently the gear bag had pushed out the notebook. I immediately checked my other pocket and found that my wallet was missing.

I asked a few street sweepers, but they hadn't seen it. There was no time to keep looking, so I went straight to the shoot. The Prime Minister of Lesotho was giving a speech. I arrived sweaty and disheveled. I could not even shake hands with the other media people covering the even, because my hands were all sweaty. I got there just in time to set up my camera and catch the speech.

Afterward, I lugged my equipment back to the office and went searching for my wallet. No one had seen turned it in. I needed an ID to get into the afternoon shoot, so I had to find the wallet. Finally I searched my car and there it was!

The afternoon shoot was at the State Department. The Prime Minister was signing an agreement with the Millennium Challenge Corporation to receive a development grant. Condoleezza Rice was there to give a speech. The shoot went easily and I was able to edit both the English version and the Nguni version in a total of 45 minutes. We have to do two versions of everything we shoot for the South African Broadcasting Corporation.