academic blunders
so the final academic decathalon competition was this past saturday at Westwood HighSchool. It was an experiance to say the least. Hahaha, I think we were the most unprepared and laid-back school there. At lunch we were playing catch with apples and were making paper airplanes.. Oh! and then Henry made paper boats and then capsized them and drowned paper asif and paper felica by pouring water on them, hahaha, we're 5 years old :) The tests weren't that incredibly bad... hahaha, probably just because none of us really cared. Screw economics though, I knew absolutely nothing on that section. I should have just spent the time bubbleing in the little rectangles so a pretty design was formed ~ tangent: oh, and why were the little fill-in-thingys rectangles? they're usually ovals or cirlces.. but rectangles? that's just strangeness ~ hahah... oh and I definitely did not expect the math section to be as difficult as it was, I felt like such a dumb shiz after that section was over. The essay was definitely a bunch of bullshiz also. i'm guessing that the majority of the people at the competition choose topic No. 3 because it was the only one that didn't have to do with the book we were supposed to read.. Super quiz wasn't that bad either... except that I felt like i total disgrace to GSE, considering that the questions were all about the ocean and such... bah. oooo, now the impromptu speach was a totally different matter. That was the absolute worst. You are handed a sheet with 3 different topics, are given a minute to prep, and then have to give a speech that's 1:30 minimum. Yeah, so the topic decided to speak about was something to the extent of besides Aids and cancer, what illness would you want to get rid of. So being the dumb shiz that I am, read the question wrong and thought we had to talk about Aids or cancer... so after the first 30 secs of my prep time were gone, I realized my err and spent the rest of the time agonizing over my mistake. I eventually decided to talk about retardation or something of the sort. Ugh. it was so bad. I spent half of the minute thirty just standing there and saying "um" or saying nothing at all, and when I actually spoke, it was so nonsensical. When it got near to the end of required time, one of the judges (who was super nice by the way) started to say something, so I just broke in and said "Yeah... I think I'm done" ... hahahahaha, so great. So that was that. at least this stupid thing didn't really count for anything. The awards dinner is on tuesday, so we'll see how I actually did...