About The Scarlett Kite
Hi! I'm Scarlett Kiteway, I'm 21 years old, a journalism student in Perplex City and this is my blog all about the excitement over the search for the Cube. I'll be keeping track of what the media over there is saying about it, and maybe a little bit about my life as well!
So, this is kind of a sad story :( I've been interested in journalism for years now, and when I got accepted to Marmalejo I interned for a couple of weeks at The Sentinel. (That's when I met Iona.) I loved it! Loved it loved it. I think I did really well, and they liked me too, and I really wanted to work for them. You know, like, be a girl-about-town student reporter, or on "what the young people are doing nowadays". That happens, right? So I managed to wangle myself a meeting with the editor, to make my presentation. My sister helped me put it together (she can be a sweetie sometimes. When she wants to be...), and it looked amazing, if I do say so myself! With all the different things I could write, and mock-ups of how it could look, and pictures of me and examples from other papers showing how they have young reporters as well. I worked so hard.
And... you know how this story ends... they turned me down. Right down. Point blank.
:(
Iona says I'm really talented, and I just need to work hard at college and come back to them when I'm done studying, but I had this brilliant idea! (lightbulb!) I thought I'd write a blog about this game my father's launching, about the search for the Cube, and also looking at the Earth papers, to see what they're saying about it. I know my blog's going to be really awesome, and when The Sentinel see it, they'll just have to employ me, if only as their "cube correspondent"! :)
Now, OK, I admit I've had a little bit of luck here as well, because I happened to mention this idea to my dad while one of his techie guys was listening, and he said "How about if we use this site as a test for our communicating-with-Earth systems?" (well, he didn't actually say "communicating-with-Earth", but went on for about 20 minutes about some complicated stuff that needs testing, but anyway that's the gist of it). So here I am. The first person from Perplex City to write a blog you guys can see. Hi!