First Assigment: OH NO!

I started my internship with La Prensa Gráfica on a Tuesday, June 8th. That was exactly 3 days before the Soccer World-Cup began. So my first couple assignments had to do with this worldwide event.
My immediate boss, the multimedia chief, likes to challenge the new employees with not-so-easy tasks during their first week at the newspaper. I learned this the hard way. They had been collecting interviews of how much people knew about the World-Cup as an event. They wanted me to put it all together as an entertainment piece of three to five minutes long. We were talking about four hours of material and interviews to be reviewed and condensed in this piece. Material I had not previously seen. The piece was to be ready Thursday, to be published before the World-Cup kicked off.
I have experience as a video editor from the newscast at school, Live at Five. But I had never found myself with such an amount of material and so little time to produce a creative, dynamic, not news-related video. And as my first assignment, I wanted my piece to represent and showcase my abilities and capacity. It was a true challenge.
I worked on going through all the material that Tuesday afternoon. As soon as I got home I worked on drafting a production plan, and learned that sometimes your work cannot be ruled by a nine-to-five schedule. Next morning I was sent to a public event, to be broadcast live for the newspaper’s website. I used the afternoon to work on my video assignment. I was able to finish it in around four hours. I know it does not sound impressive, but I was in the process of learning how to use Sony Vegas 9.0, the editing software they work with.
My co-workers were incredulous; they said they had never seen an intern produce so well in a program they are still adapting to. The Chief of photography was so impressed he asked me if I would be interested in trying out for an editing position in his department. He insisted he needed someone with the “ability and readiness to learn” I displayed. I could not be but flattered, having to deny the offer for I have not yet graduated, and I am really not interested in working on slide-shows every day. But my boss was not impressed. She barely made any comment about my work, which I still think a little odd... But hey, it was okay for the sake of beginnings! Here is a link to the finished product. Yes, I know it is in Spanish; and NO, I am not about to subtitle the whole thing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeitHQyGdUw&feature=related