Saturday we had fine arts, in which I was performing a flue piece and a dance. I had forgotten the flute music at home and had been writing it out, but yet the morning of fine arts came and I didn't have three copies of it. So during Rebecca's piano piece, I had to go down to the lobby where I saw the Snodgrasses and made copies. With the exception of beginning my piece wrong, my flute piece went well and after watching Ben play his violin piece (which was awesome!!) and listening to Shaney's and Brian's speeches it was time to get ready for my dance. When I was in the elevator with Rachel Wohl, I was about to fall apart and confided in her that I didn't think I could do my dance. When I got up to the room, I had to find my CD and outline... this ended up being a problem because I couldn't find my outline and my CD ended up being blank. When I found out that my CD was blank, I ran downstairs trying to figure out what to do. I LOVE MY TEAM!!! I tried to call home to get my family to e-mail the track, but that didn't work because the internet was down. Anyway, I still would have need a computer, which, thankfully Brian had one and we were able to connect to the internet. Than Marcello had an iTunes card which we were able to use and we were able to burn a copy of the song onto my blank CD and I was able to do my dance. If it hadn't been for my team, I would have never been able to even compete with my dance!!! I love them so much and I'm so glad that they were there.
In my dance, I ended up having to improve and almost lost a shoe. Also the CD kept skipping. None the less, I was able to make it through my song. After this performance, I was expecting to get participation or very low bronze. After my dance, Rachel performed her dance which was amazing and I completely expected to get a very high gold score if not first. But the expressive arts judges are so bad!!!! The gave Rachel a participation and me a bronze!!!! Something is wrong with that!!!
enough ranting...
Monday, June 16, 2008
Friday night... after quiz and citation
After gold round was done, I was disappointed but I knew that we shouldn't have made it out of participation and so felt blessed that we got so far. Following quiz, we took team pictures (including one of Brian's angles... lol) and those who were getting their citations had to get ready. In citation they had some seniors receiving citations perform their fine arts pieces. The cellist and violinist were amazing!!! (of course they were asian, but still...) The night went well but one eventful thing was that Shaney kissed Art and Jack Edgar. Then we had dinner after taking Citation pictures and the night was pretty much over..
Dinner was expensive, but it was really good. But after dinner we had a team meeting which did NOT go well. One thing that I do remember is that at this point in time, our team was not unified at all and one person commented on that and said that there was no way that we could unify in a mere to days, to which Daniel replied, "Don't underestimate God."
Dinner was expensive, but it was really good. But after dinner we had a team meeting which did NOT go well. One thing that I do remember is that at this point in time, our team was not unified at all and one person commented on that and said that there was no way that we could unify in a mere to days, to which Daniel replied, "Don't underestimate God."
Gold Round
In gold round, my team was second on the sample question (which the first team got wrong). This question was "Stand up and sing the AWANA theme song as a team." That was so much fun!! (even though both Rachel and Rose were slightly embarassed). When we stood up, I was wondering which key to sing in, and so when Shaney started us off it was a blessing. In this round, each question missed or right was very important, especially with only the top 5 teams being able to go on. One question that could have easily allowed us to go on if we had gotten it right was a list about something concerning believers, which Shaney stood up to answer, but couldn't figure it out. Even though we didn't get this question right, we did get a few right.
Multiple choice was really fun though... We got 100% right and we had an awesome quiz master who, when giving the answer for multiple choice questions, says "The correct answer is B! The correct answer is B!" or whatever the answer is. I had heard him last year, but Rose hadn't heard him yet and so when he started talking, she was so excited! In the round, she fell in love with him (not literally) and exclaimed "He's adorable!" One question in this round that could have also saved us was thrown out even though it was completely legit. Anyway, at the end of this round, we ended up in 6th by five points.. therefore missing platinum by 5 points.
This was the second time in my quizzing career where my team missed something by 5 points and so it was disappointing (the other time was in 8th grade where my team finished 2nd by 5 points).
Multiple choice was really fun though... We got 100% right and we had an awesome quiz master who, when giving the answer for multiple choice questions, says "The correct answer is B! The correct answer is B!" or whatever the answer is. I had heard him last year, but Rose hadn't heard him yet and so when he started talking, she was so excited! In the round, she fell in love with him (not literally) and exclaimed "He's adorable!" One question in this round that could have also saved us was thrown out even though it was completely legit. Anyway, at the end of this round, we ended up in 6th by five points.. therefore missing platinum by 5 points.
This was the second time in my quizzing career where my team missed something by 5 points and so it was disappointing (the other time was in 8th grade where my team finished 2nd by 5 points).
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