By Diana 

After a month long hiatus, much-needed break from McCaskey’s student newspaper, I’m back into the swing of things and hitting the ground running with a good story about a McCaskey East student awaiting a heart transplant. Whether or not I’ll need a translator is yet to be known because no hablo espanol y no se si hablan ingles .

Yesterday, I did an interview with Stephen Christian of Anberlin. It took some perseverance to get a hold of him, but it’s nothing new. Musicians on the road or somewhere with bad cell phone reception are hard to get a hold of. He was a cool guy and it was a good interview. If you’re an Anberlin fan, look for that article/interview sometime in late April.

Tom Morello (a.k.a. The Nightwatchman) will be releasing his debut solo album April 24. I’m excited to hear and review that for an early May Teen Weekend.

I’ve also been preparing for the trip to Biloxi, Miss. a group of McCaskey seniors and teachers are making in June. (You may have read the article in Lancaster New Era…) I’m excited. My main concern would be how hot and badly burnt I’ll be. I’m not a fan of hot weather. Oh, but what an aspiring journalist will do for a good story…

Yesterday, a group of us (four teachers, four students and two of one of the teachers’ kids) went to the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg to see Hurricane on the Bayou. It’s an IMAX movie about Hurricane Katrina. It was short, but good.

When we drove past the Whitaker Center, the teacher’s son saw the Hurricane on the Bayou poster and said that he saw the poster for “Hurricane on the Balcony.” Ha ha ha. Kids…