Saturday, pridie Kalendas Februarias, In Pictures
My day in pictures.
This was the start of my day:
Closer:
This was the end of my day:
Overall, a good day.
Today was Hoosier Certamen Invitational, the first competition of the year (there are no fall competitions) for my JCL kids. They have been practicing every Friday so this is when it all pays off. The day did not start too auspiciously however. Just as I was leaving my apartment to go to school and meet the kids for the drive over to the school hosting the meet...I backed out of my parking spot and before I could turn and drive off, a car driving out of the parking lot ran into me. Dented my rear driver side door, probably scratched the paint though under the wintry dust it's hard to tell at the moment...no other damage, and I wasn't hurt. Fortunately even when one is not looking out for cars backing out as one drives through the parking lot, one still doesn't drive terribly fast, so it's just a bit of a dent, as seen above. Definitely just cosmetic damage since I still managed to drive to certamen and back safely! The other car fared worse - the headlight on the corner of the car that hit me was torn off along with what appear to be some bits of metal or plastic from the light's housing (which are still, in fact, sitting in the driveway, I noticed when I got home from certamen; but I'm not going out tonight to confirm their structural composition for the curious. ;-) Anyway, no serious damage except to the schedule. I was leaving early enough to have had time to run in the building and have ten minutes or so to make sure I had everything I needed, before the kids would arrive...after the accident, by the time the police got there and did the accident report, I got to OUR school at just about the time we were supposed to be at the HOST school. Luckily the host was only 20-25 minutes away, in Noblesville, so we were not very late after all. But it was a very frazzling start to the day.
I only had two teams at this meet, since Latin I is gone. :-( Four of my Latin 2 honors kids played on the Intermediate team, and I had five Latin 3/4 students for the Advanced team; four is the limit to a team so the fifth girl - who is in Latin 3 not 4 - had to play on the wild card team instead. (Wild card teams are formed when the number of teams present isn't divisible by 2 or 3 to facilitate a round robin.) Poor girl, last year she had to do that too at one meet when none of the rest of her Latin 2 team was able to go so I didn't register a team for them!
So, we took two teams...you noticed the last picture above? Oh, am I a proud Magistra today. Both my teams came home with first place trophies! We won both the Intermediate and Advanced levels! We have had trophies before but never more than one in the same day. A few years ago, Denny's Latin 2 team...which means basically Denny himself...took first place at both invitational meets AND at state convention, and so far that has been our best season. (Last year our Novice - Latin 1 - team took first at the January meet but that was our only trophy of the year.) Two teams getting first at the same meet - I'm calling that our new record! Can you believe HSE is cutting the program when these kids are so amazing?!
So, I think the trophies make up well enough for the morning havoc.
More certamen photos (I offer no more car photos, bleh): Flickr Set
This was the start of my day:
Closer:
This was the end of my day:
Overall, a good day.
Today was Hoosier Certamen Invitational, the first competition of the year (there are no fall competitions) for my JCL kids. They have been practicing every Friday so this is when it all pays off. The day did not start too auspiciously however. Just as I was leaving my apartment to go to school and meet the kids for the drive over to the school hosting the meet...I backed out of my parking spot and before I could turn and drive off, a car driving out of the parking lot ran into me. Dented my rear driver side door, probably scratched the paint though under the wintry dust it's hard to tell at the moment...no other damage, and I wasn't hurt. Fortunately even when one is not looking out for cars backing out as one drives through the parking lot, one still doesn't drive terribly fast, so it's just a bit of a dent, as seen above. Definitely just cosmetic damage since I still managed to drive to certamen and back safely! The other car fared worse - the headlight on the corner of the car that hit me was torn off along with what appear to be some bits of metal or plastic from the light's housing (which are still, in fact, sitting in the driveway, I noticed when I got home from certamen; but I'm not going out tonight to confirm their structural composition for the curious. ;-) Anyway, no serious damage except to the schedule. I was leaving early enough to have had time to run in the building and have ten minutes or so to make sure I had everything I needed, before the kids would arrive...after the accident, by the time the police got there and did the accident report, I got to OUR school at just about the time we were supposed to be at the HOST school. Luckily the host was only 20-25 minutes away, in Noblesville, so we were not very late after all. But it was a very frazzling start to the day.
I only had two teams at this meet, since Latin I is gone. :-( Four of my Latin 2 honors kids played on the Intermediate team, and I had five Latin 3/4 students for the Advanced team; four is the limit to a team so the fifth girl - who is in Latin 3 not 4 - had to play on the wild card team instead. (Wild card teams are formed when the number of teams present isn't divisible by 2 or 3 to facilitate a round robin.) Poor girl, last year she had to do that too at one meet when none of the rest of her Latin 2 team was able to go so I didn't register a team for them!
So, we took two teams...you noticed the last picture above? Oh, am I a proud Magistra today. Both my teams came home with first place trophies! We won both the Intermediate and Advanced levels! We have had trophies before but never more than one in the same day. A few years ago, Denny's Latin 2 team...which means basically Denny himself...took first place at both invitational meets AND at state convention, and so far that has been our best season. (Last year our Novice - Latin 1 - team took first at the January meet but that was our only trophy of the year.) Two teams getting first at the same meet - I'm calling that our new record! Can you believe HSE is cutting the program when these kids are so amazing?!
So, I think the trophies make up well enough for the morning havoc.
More certamen photos (I offer no more car photos, bleh): Flickr Set