Mr. Poston

For this blog, I interviewed a crazy cool teacher....Mr.Poston!

1. What did you want to be when you were little?

MP: Fireman

2. If you could meet one person, alive or dead, who would it be, and why?

MP: John Lennon------------ Imagine

3. What's the funniest thing you've ever experienced?

MP: My kids

4. What is your favorite subject to teach and why?

MP: All of them-St.A students Rock

5. When have you been the most embarrassed?

MP: In high school, when I went tubing on the lake.

6. Why do they put Braille on the number pads of drive up teller machines?

MP: To inspire people to do new things.

7. When you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?

MP: Purple

8. Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

MP: No

9. If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex in the box?

MP: God exists, there is no "if".

10. What's the strangest thing you've ever eaten?

MP: Ostrich Burgers

11. What's been the scariest moment of your life?

MP: My child running toward the street/My child at Cardinal Glennon Hospital

12. What happens to an irresistible force when it hits an immovable object?

MP: No work is done, W=FxD

I also asked him for some random facts about himself and he said...

13. I wish I could teach as well as Joy Jones

14. My family is my world.

15. I love learning new things.

16. My heart has been broken, three times. The first time, I rarely spoke to anyone for 3 years. The 2nd and 3rd time have brought me closer to God.

17. I hate leftovers.

18. Fishing is the best way I relax.

19. Sometimes I see pink elephants.

20. Do you have any blackberry cobbler?

I would like to thank Mr.Poston very much for taking the time to answer all my questions..

--Cheslynn Litke

IMEA Festival: District 5

On Monday, October 12th, junior and senior high kids from all over this district came to Effingham grade and high schools to audition for places in the band, chorus, and orchestra. Each musician had to prepare a set of audition material...This ranges from scales to etudes to music excerpts.

The kids who make the cut get to participate in a program called IMEA (Illinois Music Education Association) District 5. There is a junior and senior division for each branch of musicality. On Saturday, November 21st, all participants go to EIU and have a full day of rehearsals, before the concerts that night. The concerts take place in either Doudna Music Center in the Dvorak Hall, or in the Martin Luther King Jr. Union Hall, in the Union Ballroom or in the Grand Ballroom. It is an opportunity for top placed musicians in high school to make it to all-state. Making it to all-state for a musician is an honor, and it's the equivalent to making it to state in sports for a basketball player.

The competition is cut-throat, and for all musicians (other than strings who are allowed to go as sophomores due to low numbers) are eligible once they become a junior. You must make the top percent of your instrument or voice range to go. The experience of IMEA is a great one. You learn so much, and you are exposed to kids your own age who share a love for music, as you do. I wish luck to all those who made it this year, especially to those of us from St.A :)

--Cheslynn Litke

Clara Zwetler :)

We've had the opportunity again this year to have exchange students come to St.Anthony. I would like to highlight one in particular, Clara Zwetler. She is 16 years old, her birthday is July 23, 1993. She is from Heidelberg, Germany. She has one sister, Lea, who is 11.


Clara wanted to come to the USA to improve her English so she can come here to study after high school. She said she misses her best friends from home, and she can't call them as much as she'd like. The thing she likes most about America is that her grades don't count towards her German schooling, and the thing she likes the least is that Starbucks doesn't have her fave coffee. Her favorite American food is Oreos, and her least favorite is anything blue, especially blue Gatorade. She said the easiest thing about being here is making new friends. The hardest thing is knowing she has to leave so soon.

Back in Germany, she goes to parties, concerts, shopping trips, and spontaneous trips to other countries for fun. Here in the US, she goes shopping, goes to concerts and runs cross country (varsity!) for fun.

We have all enjoyed having her here, and we'll be sad to see her go.

--Cheslynn Litke