TIME FLYS...IT SHOULD HAVE WALKED....

MAN TIME REALLY FLYS..WHEN REALLY SHOULD HAVE WALKED...

IVE BEEN SICK FOR TWO WEEKS AND IT REALLY SUCKED. I MISSED SO MUCH AND I AM SO MAD. WELL ATLEAST I HAD SOME EXPERIENCE OF BEING A MINI REPORTER/STORY TELLER.

MY LAST STORY A.K.A THE BIG FINALE WAS FUN TO DO. USUALLY I WOULD BE SLEEP AROUND 2AM BUT NOT ON MONDAY. I WAS UP CREATING MY LAST STORY. WHY? WELL I WAS THINKING A LOT, MAINLY ABOUT WHERE I LIVE, HOW I LIVE, AND WHERE I WILL LIVE IN 20 YEARS. WEIRD. IDK...SO I STARTED THINKING ABOUT FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND STARTED TO CREATE MY POEM. (ENJOY)

I DID SOME JOB SHADOWING WITH PHYLLIS YESTURDAY, IT WAS FUN. WE WERE ON A MISSION TO ASK PEOPLE ABOUT GROCERY SHOPPING. FIRST WE WENT TO A PARK BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF COMMOTION GOING ON. THERE WAS LIKE 5 POLICE CARS AND THIS MAN WENT TO JAIL. MAN IT WAS CRAZY!! I ENDED UP GETTING A STORY ON ACCIDENT..LOL..NO REALLY I WASNT SUPPOSE TO BUT THERE WAS 2 WOMEN THAT SEEN THE WHOLE THING SO I WAS INTERESTED IN TALKIG TO THEM.

ANYWAYS WE LEFT THE PARK (IN THE AWESOME HYBIRD) AND WENT TO A LOCALE BUS STOP. IT WAS FUN BECAUSE I SEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE I KNEW AND ASKED IF PHYLLIS COULD INTERVIEW THEM. THEY ACCEPTED THE REQUEST. IT MADE THE DAY A WHOLE LOT EASIER.

TODAY IS MY LAST DAY IN WEEKDAY HIGH BUT THIS ISN'T THE LAST YOU'LL SEE OF ME. ILL BE AROUND. I HAD A GREAT TIME. THANKS NATHEN FOR HELPING ME WITH MY STORIES AND BRAD (IF BRAD HAPPENS TO READ THIS FROM SCHOOL) THANK YOU TOO. THANK YOU STEVE FOR THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY. TODEELOO...LOL..TO THE KUOW STAFF AND INTERNS...ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR SUMMER.

SINCERELY,

DAEDAE WiLLiAMS

Space cars

Hello all,

Today's show is called "You Don't Have to be a Rocket Scientist." Lillian went to an arcade and talked to some people about the games they like to play, and I did the story about Rocket Racing. It was a lot of fun to do. I got to interview Eric Lindbergh, the grandson of Charles Lindbergh, and that was fun. I also got to interview Granger Whitelaw, which is really a story in itself. Much thanks to both of them for talking to me.

Enjoy !!

Ann

sup WeHigh

Haven't posted on here in hella ....
This week Ann and I have been hosting the podcast. It's a lot of work and last-minute cramming, especially since I have soccer in the mornings and can't get here till the afternoon. It's pretty fun though, in a tedious way I guess, trying to come up with creative scripts and connect stories. I can't believe Weekday High is almost over! Seems like just yesterday that Brad and Nathan were cracking bad jokes about like... pineapples, or something.

Two podcasts left to host, then the last day.
I'll definitely miss wandering around the mazes of sloped floors here, getting voxpops in the hot sun or cold rain around the U District (thanks to Seattle's dialectical/bi-polar/global warming weather), chillin in the Green Room, editing pieces and just the everday "banter" that goes on here... Hey, I might even miss the arctic-like temperatures of the basement..... Okay no, definitely not.

I'm gonna follow in Lillian's blog-steps and give a big shoutout/thank you to everyone at Weekday High and KUOW. You guys are awesome. Ridiculous at times, yes. But awesome nontheless.

It's been fun.
Mad love, yo!

-Elena

Lucky Number 14

Can you believe today's show is our 14th!?

Today's show highlights Weekday High 2008's theme of Activism. Lillian Warner reports on why teens today are perceived as indifferent towards politics. She talked with an organization called Washington Bus. What she found out proves that most teens aren't apathetic at all. Then, Kat Beame interviews her classmate Keshav. He gets puzzled looks from his peers when he tells them he wants to attend West Point Military Academy. Kat tells us why he puts up with them.
Listen: Apathy is For Losers


(from http://www.washingtonbus.org/)

Here's the Washington Bus that travels around the state. Learn more about them here. They are awesome. The guy I interviewed, Toby Crittenden, was really nice. He was the first person I interviewed that I didn't know. It was a phone interview too, which I had never done either. Irene had to do some frantic made-up sign language telling me to hang up the phone and press the right buttons while I was talking with Toby. Haha.

Sooo Rainy!

Hi. It's raining really really hard today. My mom said a funnel cloud was forming on the coast, and funnel clouds are apparently the precursors to tornadoes. ...But I thought Washington never got tornadoes?

Today was really good. It sucks that everything is winding down for Weekday High. I don't think there was one thing I did that I didn't really enjoy. Even hosting. Also, all the people at KUOW are geniunely friendly and interesting (really, really smart, too). Probably one of my favorite things this summer has just been meeting and talking with different people in the hallways and stuff. I knew this internship was going to be good, but I didn't think any job-type thing could be this fun. So I guess this blog entry is just to say thank you to everyone at the station for making it such an awesome place to be. And also to say thanks Nathan, Irene, Brad, and Steve for working with us/teaching us awesome things/letting us be interns and everything.
Also, In the past 6 weeks, I've noticed that I've been writing in shorter and choppier sentences.....
Anyway, to not end on a sappy note, I thought I would post a couple pictures. Here's two from the place I made an audio postcard of, the Night Market in Chinatown.

My awkward microphone and messy hair.

Some old and young people playing Mah-Jong.

Short and Sweet

Hello All,
It's my first time hosting and so far it's going well. Today's show includes a vox pop from Capitol Hill, and an essay by Bryce. Enjoy !!
Ann

Voting and Spandex
Listen (MP3)
Monday, August 25, 2008

Young people will be crucial to this year's election, though political activism can take many different forms. Ann Kane talks to youth voters about why they will cast a ballot. Also, Bryce Jacobson is only sixteen, but shares a personal essay about his own influence.

Text me tonight

Hey all-It's Kat and mine's last show as producers. Tomorrow we just become ordinary old interns again. *sigh*I'm sad it's over but also a little relieved. It was a lot of work! I never expected to be working eight hour days......
Anway, today's show is all about texting! Well, not quite. Elena interviewed a friend of hers who is heavily involved in the Obama campaign. And since Obama plans to announce his VP via text message, Kat and I thought it would be fun to do a Voxpop about the importance of texting. Enjoy!

Txt the v0t3
Listen (MP3)
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Barack Obama plans to send his VP choice via text message to supporters, but is it possible to text something meaningful? Kat and Kaitie seek to answer that question. Also, Elena Degel interviews the youngest Obama delegate to the Washington State Democratic Convention.

Music From today's show: Song 1="No Cars Go" by Arcade Fire
Song 2="Someone Great" by LCD soundsystem

Weird Food

Today's show seems to revolve around weird food. Elena, Kat, and myself walked around the Ave sampling bubble tea. I had never had bubble tea before.....It's a little strange in my opinion. Listen to today's show and you can hear all about that. We also have an audio postcard from Lillian. She went to china town and walked around the night market. A night market is a staple of chinese culture and apparently sells lots of weird food-including fried scorpions.
Only one more show left and then Kat and I hand over our producing duties.
Listen Now: Take Me Out: The Night Market Listen (MP3)

Two down, two to go

Phew, second podcast done! Lillian and Bryce had warned me about how long it would take to produce a show, but I didn't really believe them. At first. Now I do. But it's still a lot of fun-and very rewarding. Plus I like telling all my friends I work at KUOW!
Today's show we have an interview with Goodspaceguy. No, you didn't missread his name. His name is actually Goodspaceguy. He's running for the 7th congressional district this year. Kat interviewed him about his views on politics and space colinazation. That's right, space colonization. We also have a VoxPop on the history of people's names (thanks Lillian and Elena!)
Enjoy!
Listen: Out Of This World
Music from today's show: Song 1- "True Faith" by New Order
Song 2-"You Only Live Once" by The Strokes

My Grandma the aid worker

On today's show I interviewed my grandma about her experiance as an aid worker in Darfur. Here are some pictures from when she was there.

Listen here: To Grandmother's Tent We Go

Where in the world...

...is Kaitie's grandma Phyllis? (you better believe I made sure the syllable count works, so you can sing that to yourself all you want).

Well, she was here about two years ago:




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You can find out more about Kaitie's globetrotting, life-saving grandmother by tuning in to Monday's podcast, with new hosts Kaitie Marshall and Kat Beame.

I'm going out in the world

Today's my last full day in the Weekday High office. I'll be in briefly on Monday, but then I'm headed out to Springfield, Illinois, for graduate school.
Springfield isn't as in the news, or as in need of aid, as Darfur, but a hundred years ago, it wasn't a peaceful place. There were some pretty terrible race riots in Springfield on August 14th and 15th, 1908. 9 people died. The riots were one of the events that led to the formation of the NAACP. WUIS, Springfield's public radio station, ran a really excellent half hour documentary on the race riots on Illinois Edition last week. You can listen to a stream of it here.
Thankfully, Springfield's a mostly peaceful place today, though the Illinois government (which I'll be covering) has been full of debate the past two years.
And Springfield, Ill. could possibly be the home of The Simpsons (that link might be broken), though I think it isn't, given that Homer and co. go to Capital City, and Springfield's the capital of Illinois.

Darcy Burner and Kazabeth--Adventures at Summer School.

Too young to vote, but not to volunteer
Today's show is about getting involved. First, we hear what Kat Beam found when she interviewed people involved with the Darcy Burner campaign. Darcy Burner is running for Congress in the 8th District. Kat learned why some people vote, why others don't, and a whole lot of other things. Then, Ann Kane highlights the Urban Impact Youth Summer Camp in South Seattle. She found out that despite popular beliefs, summer school can actually be pretty fun.

Well, that's it--Lillian and I did our time. We wrote, hosted, and produced a whole week of podcasts. Yes! It was painful at first. But we started to get the hang of it around the third show. What will we be doing for the next two weeks? Putting together stories of course. We'll sit in KUOW's basement, locked away in some room with awful lighting for four hours every Monday through Thursday. For two more wonderful weeks. Or at least the other interns will be. I start school on the 25th, so I won't be here for the last week. You'll miss me. Really.

As I type this, Kat and Kaitie (or as I like to call them, Katherine and Elizabeth) are working on next Monday's show. They get to experience all the pain Lillian and I were put through. So exciting. Anyway, stay tuned for Kazabeth!

--Bryce.

Bryce, the Olympian

The Olympics have started! To celebrate, we've devoted today's show to sports.

Audio Gold
With the Olympics in progress, the Weekday High Interns thought it appropriate to ask people about their own Olympic moments. You know, those times when you experienced monumental triumph…or failure. Also, should dodgeball be an Olympic sport? Elena Degel reports.

Bryce and I put together the vox-pop from our trip to the Pike Place Market. We asked people about Olympic moments that they've had in their lives. Some people were confused, though, and thought we were asking them if they had been in the Olympics. Those answers didn't make the final cut. Elena's excursion to a community dodgeball game took place at Bobby Morris park.

These were some Olympic Moments too....


Nathan and Brad were wondering today what country's won the most summer Olympic medals per capita.....and the answer was Finland. What was even more surprising is that for both the winter and summer Olympics combined, the country that has won the most medals per capita was Liechtenstein!

Cheese, Leather, and Collectibles

A couple of weeks ago, the Weekday High Interns were released amidst the hustle and bustle of Pike Place Market.

Community market, family table
In a series of audio postcards, the Weekday High Interns take you through the Pike Place Market – stopping along the way at Marakesh Leathers, Golden Age Collectables, and Beecher's Cheese. They ultimately end up at Ann Kane's dinner table.

We visited the different shops, interviewing the wide array of people the market attracts. While Kaitie and Kat learned more about Golden Age Collectibles, Lillian and I could be found in Beecher's Cheese, recording squishy macaroni and cheese sounds. While Ann interviewed a young leatherman at Marakesh Leather, Lillian and I recorded the sounds of a swinging trashcan. And after a long day of walking around the market, Ann invites us to her dinner table--a place where she feels she can truly be herself.

Again, Lillian and I are forced to write, host, and produce another show. But it's getting easier and less painful.
Huzzah!

Bryce and Lillian at Pike Place Market

fourth week already?!

This is my first blog post ever...how strange....
anyway-I can't believe we have started our fourth week here at KUOW! It's going by so fast, probably because it's so fun (awwwww.......).
I interviewed my grandma the other day about her experience as an aid worker in Darfur. I was surpisingly nervous-I didn't expect to be that nervous to interview my own grandmother! But it went well. I learned a lot about my grandma and her experiance. Hopefully I can get some pictures and post them on this blog for all to see.

update by brad: Here's Kaitie as an actress (from our second show)

Voila! The magic of the internet.

People and Places

Today's show is about friends.

Winning Friends and Influencing People

Kaitie Marshall and Lillian Warner both know some pretty cool people. Today, they each tell their stories. Kaitie shares some good times she's had at a park, while Lillian talks about her experiences at her friend's house.

This was our first go at producing a real, finished podcast. Our music choices could fit together a little better, we think. We probably won't be having Yo La Tengo, Madonna and the Beatles together in our upcoming podcasts.

Tomorrow's show should be good though. It's about our field trip to the Pike Place Market...which was fun. Brad took some pictures, so we will have those too.

ITS WEIRD..IN A GOOD WAY

BEFORE I STARTED WEEKDAY HIGH'S INTERNHIP I DIDN'T EXIST (ON THE INTERNET). A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO I TYPED MY NAME IN GOOGLE AND GUESS WHAT POPPED UP? ME...IT WAS ME AND KUOW.ORG POPPED UP TOO. I WAS LIKE WOW...WEIRD IN A GOOD WAY. SO NOW I FEEL IMPORTANT AND SPECIAL!!

Well, today Bryce and I put together the first show that we're hosting on Monday. It was hard. Editing was hard (Brad laughed at Bryce's volume adjustments/fade outs! In a nice way though.), coming up with ideas was hard, sharing ideas was hard, and organizing a script was hard. I hope we did ok. I just have to add, though, that Bryce was awesome at editing and fading and putting stuff together.

But, I have to say, this whole week has been really good. Everyone is so cool and fun to be around. Job shadowing was awesome. I sat in when Sara Lerner interviewed a chef about peaches. I never realized there was a difference between soft peaches and actually ripe peaches. I feel like I've been tricked my entire life...
Also, seeing Gloria Steinem in person today was definitely a highlight.

And yeah, I totally agree with Elena and DaeDae. The room we're in is freezing most of the time.

Thursday: Go to church, or GO TO YOUR ROOM!

Today's show takes a look inward, using our inside voice.

Catching your reflection
For Bryce Jacobson and DaeDae Williams, reflection comes naturally. But both have a complicated relationship with their quiet time. On today's show, Bryce and DaeDae share personal essays about time spent in church and at home, respectively.

Today's show features a crackly version of The Beach Boys' "In My Room." Watch it spin.

Ahh, the vinyl single. I'm old enough to actually own one of these.

It's nice to see the interns posting on the blog. It only took three weeks of prodding...

Grill Sergeants , ABBA , and Passions ..

So ... I guess this is what we do here at Weekday High .
Go on Facebook and blog .

Ha , just kidding , kind of .


I figured I'd be ( somewhat ? ) productive here and post a blog .
Well let's see .
Yesterday I job shadowed Phyllis Fletcher , an awesome KUOW reporter .
Unfortunately the day was pretty uneventful . We discovered this cooking show "Grill Sergeants" on the Pentagon Channel . Which was hilarious . And awesome .
Then we went to interview a professor at the UW about snow pack/climate change science things .

Anyway , it's pretty fun .
My only complaint is that I'm inside for an entire day , in one of the few months Seattle has of actual decent weather .
Oh and I agree with DaeDae , it's pretty much freezing in here . And it's really hot outside . So every morning I have to debate with myself on whether to dress for heat or cold . It's quite a conundrum .


Now Lillian and Bryce are looking up songs for next week's podcast . So far they've mentioned ABBA , Madonna , and ... musicals ?
Yeah .... good luck with that guys .
Oh and now they're talking about Passions . And soap operas .

Well there it is , my first post on Weekday High's blog .
Uh ... sorry about that . Ha .
I don't really pride myself on my blogging abilities .

- Elena

THIS IS SO COOL

WEEKDAY HIGH's INTERNSHIP IS SO COOL...ACTUALLY IT'S TOO COOL...I'M FREEZING!! I'M SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE THAT HAVE THEIR OWN OPINIONS AND IDEAS AND ITS INTERESTING TO HEAR THEM. BRAD AND NATHEN ARE VERY FUNNY, THEY CRACK ME UP EVERYDAY.



THE ONLY OBSTACLE THAT I HAVE TO FACE 3 TO 4 TIMES OUT OF THE WEEK WOULD BE CARRYING MY EQUIPMENT EVERYWHERE. IT IS SO HEAVY! BY THE TIME THE SUMMER IS OVER I SWEAR I WILL BE ABLE BENCH PRESS 250 POUNDS!..LOL



I LOVE THE PODCAST INTRO, BUT IDK WHAT BRAD WAS DREAMING ABOUT... "BEAUTIFUL PINEAPPLES?" AND ITS GREAT HOW THEY ADDED THE PART WHERE I SAY I LIKE TO STUDY PEOPLE AND I'M NOT STALKING THEM...WOW..THAT SOMETHING I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW...LOL.

OVERALL, THIS IS A GREAT AND OPPURTUNITY FOR ME AND FOR ALL THE INTERNS. I FEEL LIKE AN MINI REPORTER, I FEEL IMPORTANT.

Wednesday: Are you in' or ing?

At the end of today's podcast, our third, you'll have heard from all seven of the Weekday High interns. So that's another thing you can cross off your "to-do" list.

Starin', racin' and partyin'
Three Weekday High interns tell personal stories using gerunds (only without the “g”). First, DaeDae Williams stares deep into her family’s psyche. Then, Anne Kane enjoys watching a good race. Finally, Elena Degel reflects on the Capitol Hill Block Party.


This show features the musical stylings of Kimya Dawson. Her website is, as expected, kimyadawson.com. She's also on livejournal.
Other music on today's show: Pete and the Pirates' "Ill Love" (which was featured on KEXP's Song of the Day podcast) and Takka Takka's "Everybody Say" (download it from The Daily Rind, like Nathan did).

Tuesday's show: acting out

We've settled on a general theme for our podcast of activism. We're starting today with the first three letters.

Two tales of two actors
All the world’s a stage, and it’s full of smaller stages. We have interviews with two interns that have found their own stages. Kaitie Marshall discusses the barrier-bridging in her youth theatre’s cast and crew. Then, Kat Beame puts on a suit and tie as part a mock trial.

Above: Kat Beame in the aforementioned suit and tie. Photo by Brittany Carroll-Watts.

This show features a special guest appearance by Weekday host Steve Scher and the Weekday High choir. One of them has been relieved of their duties.

And our theme song of the moment is Yo La Tengo's "You Can Have It All." Hear the whole song here or buy it here.

Podcasts are go!

Like a fledgling duckling preparing to leave its nest, Weekday High has flapped its feathered podcast wings for the first time today. It's a precious yet awkward moment. Here's the show and description:

Welcome to the Weekday High Podcast
It's been a year, but we're back online with a new crop of high school students. Join us as we hear voices from our seven interns as well as managing editors Nathan Friend and Brad Iverson–Long. Today, University Prep senior Kat Beame reflects on the timelessness of campfires.

If all goes as planned, we'll be flying like mighty mallards by the end of the month. Our plan is to produce four shows every week, which will be released Monday through Thursday. If you want to get every episode straight from the source, subscribe to our podcast. Here's the RSS feed. (I'll also post a link in the sidebar.)

If you like what you've heard, let us know. You can leave comments here or, if you really like us, you can be our fan on Facebook.

We'll be back tomorrow, with a bit more feeling.

Better know a story format: Audio Postcard

Yesterday, we introduced the audio postcard format to the interns. What's an audio postcard? It's like a paper postcard, only with sound. It's short, colorful, and brightens your day. And how do you make one? Kayla Sargent, a Weekday High intern last year, wrote this instruction manual:

How to make an audio postcard by Kayla Sargent
Writing an audio postcard is the same as writing a paper postcard. Except when you send an audio postcard, you don’t need to pay for postage.
When you're sifting through your mail, and you see a postcard, the first thing you look at is the picture on the front. The picture draws you in, and gives you a visual of the place the postcard is from. The first sound of your postcard should do just that. Get sounds from the setting that will enable people to visualize where you are. That sound should be first, just like the picture on the front of a postcard.
If you were going to send a postcard from Hawaii, it would have a picture of a tropical beach on the front. To give the listener that beautiful blue watered beach, record the ambient noise of the beach like waves, seagulls, etc.
Then, you flip over the postcard, and read the letter. The first sentence is usually along the lines of “Hello ____! (Place where you are) is fabulous! Find a way to let the listener know exactly where you are, and what it’s like there. In the postcard from Hawaii, a news report of the weather would serve this purpose, “it’s 77 degrees today in Hawaii.”
Then you go on to tell your friend about all the fabulous activities you are doing. Put in the sounds of those activities. In the Hawaiian postcard, sounds of people playing on the beach, and of a tour guide’s spiel would be good.
Then find a nice way to end the postcard. This is the part that says ‘See you soon,” or “Wish you were here.” To end the Hawaii postcard, native Hawaiian music that slowly faded out would do the trick.
When making an Audio Postcard, don’t limit the sounds you use. Conversations, music, ambient noise, machinery, etc., anything that will take the listener from where they are, to where the postcard is from is good to use. If the place you are visiting doesn’t lend itself as easily a Hawaii, just remember that an audio postcard should tell the listener where you are, what it’s like, and what you are doing there.

Kayla knows what she's talking about. Her audio postcard from the basketball courts at Green Lake (listen to it here; it starts at around 2:50) was featured on NPR's YouthCast last year. It won an award. Kayla even got a free tote bag.
NPR has a more authoritative guide to audio postcards, but it's written by an adult.
This summer's interns will have audio postcards from other areas around Seattle, starting next week.

Days of Interns Past

This isn't Weekday High's first rodeo or its first summer of producing radio stories. Our past summers' work is available through the links on the right, but they deserve their own post.
Last summer, Steve, Nathan and I worked with a group of girls to produce VoxPod, a podcast and blog (and MySpace page!) that showcased our work. We focused on voices and stories from local communities of choice and chance.
In 2006, Nathan, Steve and the interns focused on their connection to our waterways. You can search KUOW's archives to listen to their work, though much of it was part of a Weekday show on the health of Puget Sound.
The summer of 2005 was theme-less, but the interns produced a batch of good stories focused mainly on their fellow teens. Scan through the archives for stories about teens and dieting, interracial romance, Native American identity, and other meaty topics.
Four years ago was an election year, obviously, and the interns focused on politics at the neighborhood level.
That's all the Weekday High work available online. Weekday High's just a tiny part of a nationwide youth radio movement. Other excellent examples include Youth Radio, Curie Youth Radio, and Generation PRX, as well as the links Nathan cited in the last post.
Have a good listen and a good weekend.

Listening

Yesterday Producer Jenny Asarnow stopped by Weekday High for a "lesson" on youth radio. I put lesson in quotes because what Jenny really stressed was how flexible, diverse, and creative youth radio can be. So even though we listened to and discussed a bunch of different stories, the take home message was to use them as jumping off points to produce our own unique sounds.

If you're interested, here's what we heard:

- Ghetto Life 101 - by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman in Chicago and Dave Isay in NYC for Sound Portraits

- What we wish we could tell our parents - by Curie Youth Radio students in Chicago

- The Cruz Azul - by Claudia Villa for KRCB's Voice of Youth in Sonoma County, California (and withouth music on The World)

- DNA of the Black Experience - by Anyi Howell for Youth Radio in Oakland, California (and without the poem on NPR)

And as bonus, here are the links to two of the youth radio specials Jenny produced for KUOW - with special help from some Weeday High graduates.

- Getting Raised - "Getting raised isn't easy. In this hour-long special, we hear stories from those who know. Teenagers explain how to deal with in-your-face parents, abusive parents, absent parents and becoming a parent when you're still in high school."

- The Migration Project - "All teenagers search for identity, but some ask "who am I?" in more than one language. Young people tell us what it's like to cross the border, learn language, and lose language. We're not going to pick apart policies. We'll hear what it's like to be a young immigrant."

Impressed...as usual

You know, this is my fourth year working with the Weekday High School Internship Program (or WeHigh), and each year I continue to be impressed with how quickly the interns pick up the tricks of the trade.

Take yesterday, for example. We did our first lesson on audio editing, never an easy or particularly fun lesson. We (Brad Iverson-Long, or Iv-Lo, and myself) were teaching the interns Adobe Audition, now the industry standard for audio editing. It's a complicated program, even for those of us who have been cutting and fading for some time now (that's NOT a drug reference). But after just an hour of playing around with the program, everyone seemed to have picked up the basics.

They were cutting together and polishing a fake radio program Brad and I threw together just for practice purposes. Here's the raw audio, and this is what it sounds like after some rough editing (to download, scroll to the the bottom of the linked pages, also think they will only stay active for 30 days).

Oh and by the way, the music we grabbed from our friends at KEXP. The songs are I Wish that I could see you soon by Herman Dune and Fools by The Dodos.

Want to try your hand at audio editing? You can download a free 30 day trial of Audition from their website.

Start Your Radio Engines

Hello, world. Here we are:

Here are six of Weekday High's interns hard at work. This photo exemplifies how most people make radio these days: silently huddled over computers, ears covered by headphones.
We've worked two days so far. Day 1 we discussed storytelling, and Day 2 we focused on writing for radio. So now we can confidently write about how to tell stories.
We'll have nice and shiny podcasts ready in just over a week, but for now you can visit the Weekday High page at KUOW to find out more about the Weekday High interns. You can even hear their voices.