They included us!

NPR just put out their iPhone app and we actually show up as a program.

So we've made it through two weeks of podcasts here at Weekday High. We listened to the entire weeks worth of podcasts today, and we noticed a lot of improvement.... I think we might actually be starting to get the hang of this whole radio thing! Seriously, if you haven't checked out the podcasts recently, drop what you're doing and start listening now!

- Lizzie and I kept working on our show for next week. Lizzie interviewed somebody from the Swedish Cultural Center and walked away with a pass for free swedish pancakes! I wish I could get some swedish pancakes....

-Molly and Artur were hard at work compiling some hilarious embaressing stories for their show on Monday, and preparing for their interview tomorrow with Professor Gross.

-When Molly wasn't doing that, she was mocking my personal essay on an experience I had overseas. She hurt my feelings pretty badly, but I think I'll be able to suck it up and finish editing the essay on Monday.

-Bryce was editing his tape that he got at the dog park yesterday. Keano was on top of things as usual, he went and recorded some pieces for the pledge drive.

Afterwards, we went to Nathan's for a small fiesta. It was a BBQ for the ages. We played several heated rounds of botchey ball, and learned that Keano has been hit by a car far too many times.

P.S. I got my wisdom teeth out this morning so I apologize if this post doesn't make any sense.
Pain meds....

Also, as promised, here's a photo of the hip hop group Brothers From Another. You heard about them in Wednesday's podcast...

A PAWFECT DAY

Yesterday. Was great. The majority of us got to interview the amazing Ginger Castleberry, an assistant stage manager at the Seattle Opera Company. We got an insider's look at the makings of operas like The Ring! A 17-hour opera that takes place over 4 days! That's a lot of singing! On the subject of music Beno P. and Michelle D. podded up with The Sounds of The Mixing Board, our 7th podcast! It included an interview with rap group, Brothers From Another and a WeHigh JAM SESH!

-I was fortunate enough to inteview PAWS Companion Animal Shelter Director, KayJoubert, about the current state of animals. Also I tried to collect some VoXPoP over at the Golden Gardens dog park.

-Artur was hard at work putting the final touches on his Thursday econo podcast!

AND thats about what I know about yesterday. From my perspective it was PAWFECT and I hope everyone else at WeHigh had a PAWFECT Wednesday too.

Stay Classy, Seattle

Today was pretty intense. Lizzie and Bryce's podcast went up on our website. I still haven't listened to it but it sounds promising. That is our sixth episode I believe.

I had to get to the station at 9 this morning because I had a phone interview with esteemed journalist H.L. Hall at 9:30. Once I stomached my nerves and got through that, Seattle Times called me at 1 telling me that Mr. David Boardman would be awaiting my call at 3. So the brilliant Irene (AKA The Editor) helped me prepare for this interview in the little time that I had. I ended up doing okay and got some really good quotes. I'm meeting Kee-Kee and Mr. Friend at the Seattle Drum School at 10:30 tomorrow to record our hosting.

Now let's look into what the other interns were up to!

- Molly spent all day thinking of ideas for our Monday podcast. Also, Bryce made her and Nathan laugh so hard they both vomited out their small intestines, which entangled and it was disgusting.

- Bryce, I'm not actually sure what Bryce was doing all day, other than instigating the above.

- Michelle was sitting next to me like all day editing... something. She also got pizza and didn't eat the crust, that pissed me off.

- Lizzie tried to make conversation with me while I ate pizza and drank crushed ice. God I hate crushed ice. She also beat me around and battered me with her volleyball, in addition to not getting anything done on her podcast except coming up with the following list of ideas:

• Animals

• Cars

• Malls

• Environment

It will be groundbreaking I'm sure.

- Kee-Kee was doing interviews for my economy show that comes out this Thursday. He is interviewing some top notch music producers because apparently small music labels are the only ones who can afford to sign new artists nowadays.

- Beno was so quiet all day I actually have no idea what he was up to. Probably something amazing. He was editing constantly.

I'm so informative!

Barbeque at Nathan's house on Thursday!

WeHigh goes to Funkytown

Here's what I learned yesterday: having interns bring instruments to the station and then trying to get them to get stuff done makes for an interesting experience. But luckily we were all pretty productive yesterday, despite a few drumming breaks. Heres what went down...

-Bryce and Lizzie wrapped up their show on teen expression. Its called "Express it" and they go talk to some people at Seattle Art Museum, youth speak, and our very own Artur Sapek. Give it a listen, its pretty darn interesting and made me feel like doing some art. Fingerpainting, anyone?

-Beno and Michelle continued working on their show about music.

-Artur returned from what he calls "hell" ( but in my experience, Ellensburg isn't really that bad) and began coming up with ideas for his upcoming shows. On our break he went and bought a huge tub of Mint chocolate chip ice cream from Rite Aid. I guess he was hungry.

-Keano set up some interviews with people at "Burning Building Records" about how the economy is affecting small record labels.

-And I came up with some ideas for my show with Artur on monday. Its gonna be fun, we have a sweet theme idea and lots of cool plans for stories.

We ended the day with a recorded jam sesh in what seemed like the worlds smallest recording booth when all seven of us were in it. I was on the djembe, Bryce played the spoons, Lizzie rocked out on an aluminum water bottle, Artur tried his hand at recorder, Michelle went crazy on the harmonica, Keano snapped and Beno stole the show with Lyrics like "Funkytown". It was good.

Ellensburg

Glad I'm out of there.

It's not my day to blog, but I thought I'd write something about camp because I was there for like three days and missed two days of the 'ship for it.

The camp was based in CWU, where the guys' dorms were amazing and the girls for some reason got put in these brick-wall dorms with no bathrooms or AC. It was one of the bigger topics of discussion throughout camp.

I saw Mr. H.L. Hall speak twice, and a third time our staff met with him and he critiqued our paper in front of us. I didn't ever get an interview with him, as the camp director never emailed me back and I felt too awkward and busy already to ask him for an interview personally.

While there I took a 16ish-hour course in InDesign over those three days. I also took shorter, 1-hour courses in Opinion and Feature writing, and the psychology behind Graphic Design.

The food was horrible. I ended up going to Domino's three times. Amazingly, through the balance of me not eating anything else the whole time, I didn't gain any weight. And I was kind of hoping to. Dang.

The overall city of Ellensburg is incredibly boring. I could not live there, I'd either lose my mind or become an alcoholic.

I was disappointed in how optimistic everyone was about the future of journalism, not once did anyone bring up any possibility of the fall of print journalism. This made it completely awkward for me to try and start my story anywhere because there really was no story.

I had a brief phone conversation with Lizzie while there and that reminded me of everyone and how great you guys are. I'm excited to return Monday and start on my economy podcast. I also have to find a musical instrument now I guess. Fudge. I am not a musician.