By Emily Matejcek and Lisa Kopecky
For us to get to know our new students and for you to get to know the new additions to our population, we have interviewed ten new students and one very special new teacher. Here are the questions we asked them:
1) What was your first impression of Mini-School?
2) What do you think of zebras?
3) How do you feel about Michael Jackson’s divorce?
4) What’s the biggest problem you’ve had this winter?
5) Do you have any pets, if so who?
6) Do you have a favorite band or musician?
7) Are you reading a book right now?
8) If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
9) If you were stranded on a deserted island for eternity, who or what would you want with you?
KORTNIE HANSEN:
1) It’s free.
2) They’re odd.
3) I don’t care or know anything about it.
4) I ran into seven snowbanks in the first month that I had a driver’s license.
5) A Pomeranian named Taz. (Mason says it’s a little yippy dog.)
6) Nine Inch Nails.
7) No! No books!
8) Cancun, Mexico.
9) Kyle (Really! What a surprise!)
MIKE PHELPS:
1) Uh, I liked it.
2) They’re white with black stripes. A living personification of bar codes.
3) He was married? I didn’t know he was even married. I didn’t know Elvis had a daughter. “Where have you been?” Mainstream.
4) It’s too damn cold.
5) A dog named Jesse, two cats named Sybil and Winston, and a horse named Dusty.
6) Jefferson Airplane.
7) No.
8) I’d go to bed.
9) I refuse to incriminate myself.
MOLLY LATTERNER:
1) I wanted to get in it really bad.
2) They’re cool. They’re my favorite colors.
3) I don’t think they should have gotten married in the first place.
4) Walking home a half mile each day after school.
5) Hobbs, a Norwegian forest cat, Katie and Peaches, Chocolate labs, Bear a poodle, and two goldfish.
6) KORN and Trent Reznor.
7) No.
8) Florida.
9) The whole band of KORN.
JOSH DAY:
1) Different.
2) They have white and black stripes on them.
3) I hate Michael Jackson.
4) I was snowmobiling up north, both tires blew, one on the way up and one on the way back.
5) Yep, two chocolate labs and a short haired, black and white cat.
6) No.
7) No.
8) To sleep.
9) A house with a lifetime supply of food.
ANNA SACLOLO:
For those of you that don’t know, Anna isn’t technically a new student. She was in Mini about two years ago.
1) How do you feel about coming back to Mini? I feel good about it. I feel like I have a lot of support, less stress, and less pressure.
2) A very interesting horse. I’d like to ride one someday.
3) I couldn’t care less. “Poor skin disease man.”
4) Last Monday my car broke down, a cop came, and I thought that he would help me, but he put cuffs on me for an unpaid ticket and brought me to jail. I was in there from 3:30 to 12:30. They took my tongue ring out and didn’t give it back, totally unjustified.
5) I have a kitten, she’s all white with long hair, her name is Kitten. You have to roll the T’s when you say her name.
6) I envy music very much, I like to make and feel music. She has no favorites.
7) Not reading, but writing in her book.
8) Hamburg, Germany, and meet up with my friend Michael Pahl and party down.
9) I’ll just have to wait until it happens for real.
CHRIS WEGLER:
1) Hectic
2) Zebras? They’re horses with stripes.
3) Don’t care
4) Staying in school
5) No pet
6) Not really
7) No
8) Montana
9) I don’t know
ANDY MILLER:
1) Dazed and confused, fine, normal, easy
2) Are you kidding me?
3) Who cares, it’s all publicity. It’s just a way to get rights to Elvis’s songs.
4) Going back to school
5) Three dogs (two smoyds, golden lab)
6) Beastie Boys
7) Geometry and the radio
8) Snowboarding in the Swiss Alps
9) The Swedish bikini team.
MATT BALDWIN:
1) It’s O.K.
2) They’re cool
3) Don’t care
4) Work
5) No
6) Beck
7) No
8) Arizona
9) Sock
TOBY MARSHALL:
1) Laid back
2) I really have no feelings for them
3) I don’t worry about that either
4) The winter itself
5) A dog – a big mutt
6) Yes, but nobody in particular
7) Yes, Pyramids of Egypt
8) Europe
9) My keyboard and a really long extension cord
AARON CONNOR:
1) I like the community feel, it might be hard to adjust to, you never know how you’re going to be perceived. What do you think mainstreams view of Mini is? A condescending view.
2) I really don’t care for zebras.
3) I was kind of hoping they’d fuse into one person.
4) Depression and anger issues
5) I have two cats – Heather and Spam
6) The Who, John Norris, and Beethoven
7) A few, On The Road, A Clockwork Orange, and Naked Lunch.
8) San Francisco
9) Allie Andrus
JOSETTE BAKER:
A special teacher taking over for Pauline while she is out with her baby.
1) The staff are real close. I felt accepted at first, but now I’m not so sure.
2) I like zebras
3) I’m really not interested, but I’m just glad children weren’t involved.
4) I had appendicitis
5) No
6) Enya
7) Yep, Circle of Quiet, History of God: 2,000 Year.
8) Kenya, to see the zebras
9) A boat
It’s always nice to find out how new people see Mini-School and give them a chance to tell us a little bit about themselves and what they like. Maybe they can do the interviewing next time around.