so excited i could BURST!
OHMYGOSH! This has to be one of the awesomest days OF MY LIFE! I think I'll even capitalize everything correctly in this entry! Today was so perfect! It was district Academic Decathlon competition, and Corinne was sick, so we only had 14 going, and we were all pretty down about everything and we all felt like we didn't know enough and we were complete failures... so yeah. We arrive at Skyline at 7:45 (way too early) and start studying while getting breakfast and blah blah. (We all looked snazzy in our BAAD TO THE BONE shirts!)(BAAD stands for Bryan Adams Academic Decathlon)(haha) The essay was first, a question about Teiresias' role in Antigone and Oedipus the King... I totally knocked that test out. Essays are wonderful for me! Then we had a 5 minute break and I ran to the bathroom, the meeting place for the girls. Rini, Cristina, and Thoa were there and we talked about how we did, then tried to remember stuff about Ecnomics and Social Science, the next 2 tests. We returned to our testing rooms and took those 2 (neither of which I feel confident about) and then we took Math and Music, and I stink at math but I felt really confident about music! I loved the music materials and I read them thoroughly. Then it was LUNCHTIME! Our pizzas were waiting on the table and we studied during lunch. Christine and I left to pee and when we returned everyone looked really excited and was frantically waving us over, a TOTAL change from earlier when we were all really discouraged... then Xuan whispered to me that Mary (who is a grader plus our coach) knows our scores and we're in THE TOP THREE! OHMYGOSH! So we all freak out but can't let anyone know that we know! It was torture. Then we take the Literature test, then the Art test, then the written Super Quiz (which, this year, was Astronomy)... then we get out and go to the auditorium for the Super Quiz Relay, when we have to go to the front and answer the questoins from the board. It's not half as embarrassing as I'm making it sound. So 3 students from each category compete and they picked ME as one of the B students, which I argued about because I didn't study much for Super Quiz but they made me anyway, and I ended up getting 2 out of my 5 correct. (which is actually good!) Then Super Quiz Relay was over and we took all our junk to the cars and returned to the auditorium for the AWARDS ASSEMBLY! OHMYGOSH!
Soooo... I ended up getting a BRONZE in Essay, a GOLD in Music, a BRONZE in Literature, a GOLD in overall B student (as in my scores all together were the highest out of all the B students from the 12 schools there! Awesome!), and BRYAN ADAMS GOT SECOND PLACE IN THE DISTRICT! (behind Science and Engineering but ahead of TAG, Hillcrest, Skyline, Sunset, W. T. White, everyone!) Last year we got 6th so it was GREAT! And we were all screaming and laughing and crying! OHMYGOSH! It was splendid! Now the next step is Regionals in January, which only 9 students compete in and I'm probably one of them! Awesome! Then... who knows? State? Probably not, but it never hurts to dream big!
Here's to going to sleep with a big head.
-tib
Soooo... I ended up getting a BRONZE in Essay, a GOLD in Music, a BRONZE in Literature, a GOLD in overall B student (as in my scores all together were the highest out of all the B students from the 12 schools there! Awesome!), and BRYAN ADAMS GOT SECOND PLACE IN THE DISTRICT! (behind Science and Engineering but ahead of TAG, Hillcrest, Skyline, Sunset, W. T. White, everyone!) Last year we got 6th so it was GREAT! And we were all screaming and laughing and crying! OHMYGOSH! It was splendid! Now the next step is Regionals in January, which only 9 students compete in and I'm probably one of them! Awesome! Then... who knows? State? Probably not, but it never hurts to dream big!
Here's to going to sleep with a big head.
-tib