Write-O-Rama Summer Session 2 What’s Hot July 14-25, 2014 @ Hofstra Write-O-Rama & KidsDay How did this picture of Jimmy Fallon As is tradition in Write-O-Rama, each year we get to partner with get on the front cover of the Editor of KidsDay to write articles, conduct interviews, and our newspaper? You’ll work together as a team for 2 weeks. In addition, we are able to try have to look inside the never-before-seen products and meet celebrities! Instead of asking paper to find out! the celebrities common interview questions, our unique writing team asks personal questions that kids can relate to. The trips we take are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, such as going to movie premieres and interactive exhibits. This session, we were able to interview musicians Nico & Vinz at NBC studios! Look inside to read their answers and to learn about our experience. Make sure to check out the Session 3 newspaper for more of our celebrity encounters and exclusive adventures! Check out all of the creative stories written by the Write-O- Rama group! You will also find our interviews and pictures Also from the game with Inside... The Harlem Wizards! Inside this newspaper are some great do-it-yourself crafts and activities that you can try at home. We hope you enjoy this issue of our newspaper! Nico & Vinz (& Jimmy Fallon, Too!) By: Bianca Kisin (PM) “Am I Wrong” video in Afri- ca is to show the good side Hi my name is Bianca and I of Africa. They said that had the amazing opportunity to there may be poverty but meet Nico and Vinz plus Jim- Africa still is very joyful and my Fallon. If you don’t know upbeat even when poverty who Nico and Vinz are, they is an issue. are singers who made the cool As we finished the inter- new song named “Am I Wrong.” view with Nico and Vinz, As I walked into their dressing Jimmy Fallon stopped in to room on the set of The Tonight say hello to us. I was star Show, I was honestly really ex- struck. I am a huge Jimmy cited to meet Nico and Vinz. As Fallon fan so I was hyped we started asking Nico and when I met him. He does a Vinz questions, we could see skit that I really like, so I that they were both also very recited the whole skit back nervous. To be honest, Nico to him and he started and Vinz are really sweet and laughing. He is such a nice down to earth guys. They an- guy. After that, we left NBC swered me with such mind- studio. I had an amazing @ NBC Studios blowing responses and I found time and hopefully I will be that super awesome about able to do that again. That them. Something cool I find out was a once in a lifetime ex- was why they filmed the “Am I perience and I couldn’t be Wrong” video in Africa. The more thankful. reason Nico and Vinz made the one famous person...who would you invite and why? 3) What do you think is the hardest thing about this career? Nico and Vinz answered all of our questions and gave us autographs! It was amaz- ing. You’ll have to read the up- coming issue of KidsDay to hear their responses to our questions! We were about to leave, when Jimmy Fallon walked by. He was super nice and gave us all hugs. I was really shocked he walked by. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I am a really big fan of Jimmy Fallon and During our interview! so are my friends and family. It was exciting getting to meet him and tell my friends and family and Tammy) and we interviewed about it. One of my favorite parts By: Darleine Abellard (PM them. They were really nice. I was getting autographs from Nico was really nervous, but as we and Vinz for my two friends and I had the opportunity to meet got into the interview I wasn’t me. My other favorite part was Nico and Vinz. They are the musi- nervous anymore. The ques- when Jimmy Fallon came by. I will cians that sing one of the summer’s tions I asked were, 1) If there always remember this experience. hit songs, “Am I Wrong.” They were was a movie produced about When my teacher asks me what I starring on The Tonight Show Star- your life, who would play you did this summer, I can tell them ring Jimmy Fallon. I was with three and why? 2) You are hosting a all about Write-o-Rama, Kidsday, other campers (Bianca, Peckelle, dinner party and must invite Nico and Vinz, and Jimmy Fallon! By: Peckelle Bethune (PM) other girls started to get autographs and take pic- This was by far the best day of tures, which they were my summer! I went to the city with more than happy to do. I the Editor of KidsDay and some stepped into the hallway to people from my Write –O–Rama get my phone to take pic- class to go to NBC studios to the tures and that’s when Jim- Jimmy Fallon show and interview my Fallon came from Nico and Vinz. Though their around the corner. Jimmy dressing room was small, we made was really nice to all of us the best out of it. Nico and Vinz and we even got a picture were nervous in the beginning of with him and talked to him. the interview but as it went on I was so happy, because I they got comfortable and we were thought that I wasn’t going all laughing and having a good to meet him but we did and time together. They are so down to I’m thankful. After we left earth and easy to relate to because no could stop talking about they are just two guys following the interview, including me, their dreams and wanting to make and for the whole rest of the it in the music industry. Once the day I was happy. Jimmy Fallon! interview was over, me and the Tammy, Bianca, Peckelle & Darleine ! of being able to meet the two friends of gratitude, the duo has a lot of re- more enjoyable. In the green room spect and appreciation for their fans; they two seemed very excited and they said that they feel that their fans happy to talk to us, when asked are important because they wouldn’t about their feelings towards success be where they are today if it weren’t for they seemed very grateful, and also them. When asked about the music mentioned that it was one of their industry and their favorite aspect of it, childhood dreams to have one of they had this to say: “of course our Getting autographs! their songs become popular in the favorite part of the music industry is United States. They were very hum- the music, but our least favorite part ble towards their success, because of of the music industry is the business the fact that when they were children aspect of it, but it comes with the job.” they found it very hard to imagine During the interview we asked the two By: Tammy Pierrot (PM) that they would have a hit song in if they had any planes for the future, the United States, due to their hum- they said that they don’t know about On July 21, the kids at Write-O-Rama ble beginnings in the small country got the special opportunity to meet the years from now, but they know about of Norway. But when asked about what is ahead, looking forward to the musical duo, Nico & Vinz. We talked to the challenges that they faced in the Norway-born artists, who wrote the release of their new album which they their careers, they said that in life said is a chance for their fans to get very popular summer song, “Am I and in fame, you go up and you go Wrong.” We talked to them about their the full spectrum of their music and to down, but when you go down in your fully understand them. The two stars feelings on things, such as how they feel career you learn what you need to about their fame, success, and their are not only looking forward to their know to get to the top. They said that new album but they are also looking plans for the future, Here’s what they life is like a mountain in that you had to say about those topics. We met forward to touring with Bruno Mars. have to start at the bottom in order The Norwegian duo says they have a the two on the set of the Tonight Show to get to the top and as you go you with Jimmy Fallon, at NBC studios. large amount of respect for him as an get the chance to grow as a person artist, and as a person. I am glad that When talking to the two musicians I was and you learn what you need to very impressed with their sense of hu- I got the chance to meet these two know to get back up. Besides being amazing people, and get to know them mility and how humble and nice they humble and having a large amount were to us, which made the experience just a little better.