Auburn-Riverside + Gig Harbor Speech Fest + life...

Hello, and I'm sorry I didn't post sooner, it's been a hectic week.
First off: Auburn-Riverside

Friday:
Friday Josh and I competed in Student Congress (hereafter refered to as Stuco), he in Novice, I in JV. This tournament was HUGE, over 250 debate entries and 380 speech entries. I gave three very good speeches, and the Parliamentarian even went up to Dawna afterwards and told her what a good speaker I was. Unfortunately their recency was all screwed up, so even though I was better than most of the people who trophied, they gave more speeches hence won the trophies. Oh well. Ali did LD and he went 3/3, not bad! I saw the Kingston team, but I didn't actually get to say hello.

Saturday: (five hours later)
Ali's alarm apparently did not go off, so Kelsey (watching), Kallie (judging), me, and Dawna drove off without him. Oh, and now I must mention the stupidist school policy. When the driver must stop for gas in a school vehicle, all persons inside the vehicle must vacant the premises until the gas is finished being pumped. Basically: If something bad does happen, we only have the memory of watching our coach be blown up, not the actually being blown up ourselves. How comforting.
Anyways! So we got there and met our two novice duos and Ali. There were three rooms of DI, and I didn't make it to finals, although I was pleased at how I did: 4/3/2. The people who did make it were insanely good, and they all beat me before. Oh, and Frank struck up a conversation with me in the commons, so that was fun. :) I watched a round of open IR then, and a round of open HI. Then I found Frank and Mitch in the hall waiting for postings and started talking to them. :) I gave Mitch some advice on a crappy judge, and impressed Frank by pointing out an error in Mitch's logic. (Keep in mind, both of these boys took first and third in Open LD at the biggest tournament in Western Washington thus far this year. They are both incredibly smart, which is part of the reason I love hanging out with them. :) ) SO I watched a round of Mitch's Impromptu, and I walked into the room and he wanted me to sit next to him. :D So afterwards I went to watch Impromptu Finals (Mitch made it, yes) and I also spent many hours between rounds with Kelsey and Ali. See, they eventually found out about my interest in the Kingston brothers, and so they promptly began mercilessly teasing me. Unfortunately there wasn't anyone for me to tease Ali about, but Kelsey did have her eye on this one dude from Renton... ;)
So yea, I watched Open Impromptu Finals, and Mitch took 2nd. :) Afterwards we all crowded into the auditorium, and Ali got 2nd for Novice Extemp. and one of our novice duos took 3rd. I got to go up on stage to get their trophies because they had left, and there were like 400 people crammed into the auditorium, I'm serious! It was a super huge tournament. :)

GIG HARBOR:Time is running short, not much happened that was interesting. 13 Things girl was there... >:| I got 2nd for Memorized Interp, they combined HI and DI because they were so small. So it was fun, and I now have another trophy. :)

Life
ooooo yea..... you know the feeling when someone hates you? Yea, it's like that. Actually, it's exactly that, not even 'like' that.
Plus side: I don't have to deal with her until Thursday, and I get to see some of you dudes tonight... Oh, and Ali doesn't hate me. Oh, and it's one less day until Elliot and Erika get back.

Renton 12/1 + 40th post!

HELLO!

okay, so I just got back from the Renton HS invitational. It was the first tournament where both Edmonds and Thomas Jefferson (an interp. POWERHOUSE, they have like the best in the state) were competing so there were new DI's for me to beat (and be conquerored by). The two which won were AMAZING, the 1st place actually had this guy crying in the 1st round, I am not kidding! I got 4th out of the seven open DI's there, which I am I guess okay with. The girl who ripped her piece off of nationals FINALLY got crushed by a judge who gave her a 5th because she ripped her piece, I am so happy about that. :) So she actually ended up placing ahead of me, but she didn't trophy so I was happy. The snow was simply gorgeous, and it was so pretty! Ali and I were standing on the stairs talking and watching the snow. :) We had our novice duo there (#3 for our team!!!)and they won FIRST. !!!!!!!! Ali also won 2nd for his Oratory. :) He is so good! dude! My impromptu topics SUCKED and consequently I got 5th each round, a personal WROST. But I wasn't _too_ crushed because all the other people were super good. I now have a grand total of 207 NFL points. Oh, and for those of you who care, Kingston was NOT there. ;) Unfortunately. Anyways! Erika and Elliot rode down with us, which was super fun, something which doesn't normally happen. They're leaving for Guatamala on the 8th and not coming back until the 30th! NO FAIR!!!!!!!!
Yea, and I have to go now,
bye!

Snohomish Invitational 2007!!!!!!!!!!

Hello wonderful people!

I am in happiness right now due to the events of Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th of November. :D
Not that I think you all care so much, but I want to remember this tournament, so I'm going to describe it, and you can read as much/little as you want.

Friday
We had a full van! Ali competed in LD, Kelsey came to watch, Josh was in the House, and Jonathan and I were in the Senate. I gave my authorship speech for my coffee resolution and a neg. speech on a resolution to decrease airport security during the first half. There was only one guy who did congress at Gig Harbor as well, a dude from Central Kitsap. The second half (oh, by the way, the room we were stuck in was like a TOMB and was SO COLD) I acted as P.O. (presiding officer, the wielder of power) for the first hour, then gave an aff. speech concerning giving prisoners the option of taking army time instead of jail time. It was pretty fun, and I was in the top six speakers. :) Unfortunately, Shorecrest also had three speakers in the top six, and those three advanced to the top three and consequently swept the speaker awards. (idiot shorecrest, they're almost as bad as snohomish)

Saturday
I got to sleep in on Saturday! We had to be at the park n' ride at 7 which was way later than usual. ;) We got a nice table in the commons and at about 9:30 Elliot, Erika, Henry, and Alex joined us. Kelsey, Kallie (judging), Ali, Kate, and I rode down in the van. Kate and I watched Ali's 4th LD round before the speech postings were up, and he had a WAY biased judge. Dawna actually got mad at him, which is very unusual for her. She kind of huffed and got up and left as soon as the round was over, and Kate and I just kind of looked at each other. That judge sucked. So for each 3 DI rounds I was in rm 18, with the other 5 contestants in open DI. Competition for that event was stiff, and I decided optimistically I hoped for 3rd. Impromptu was loads of 'fun', because I hadn't given an impromptu speech since March, and each of my rooms had either 8 or 7 competitors (the normal amount for a room is around 4 or 5) which meant a lot of 5th places. My first speech was good, second SUCKED! (Elliot came and watched me that round) and the third speech was okay. I didn't make it to impromptu finals (big surprise, I was surprised with the people who actually did make it to finals. But instead we went to watch Open Duo finals in which 2 of the 3 teams competing were FROM OUR SCHOOL!!!!!!!!! It was a super fun round. :D The room was PACKED, and our humorous Duo received lots of laughs, as did the funny parts in our dramatic Duo. Afterwards, seeing as how the tournament was running obscenely late, I went over and talked to my friend Catherine from Snohomish for like half an hour until they announced awards. I was pretty nervous, but not as nervous as I normally am. ;) Perhaps after 8 tournaments I'm finally calming down. ;) They called DI first of the events in which our team competed, and there were three awards. Duo was second, and our team took first and second. (OMG IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!) Erika and Elliot will be representing our District at State in March, since they won first. :D Ali also won first in Novice for his Oratory, and the rest is history. It was one of the happiest nights thus far, and I made two friends on the Kingston team *blush. Apparently we are going to have double-practices with their team since we're so close to them and we both have small but good schools. ;) As for MY RESULTS from Snohomish, if you couldn't tell, I got 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Sorry for posting again so soon....

...but I had to share this picture.
It's the limit!!!

Happy All Saints Day!

Hello dear peoples!

Well, two of my fingers really hurt right now, so this will be rather brief. :( I know, you're all so sad. I'm glad you are loving my quizes! Honestly, if none of you are double-entering them, there are not a few people who are voting but not commenting. FEEL MY RATH. Comment! I want to hear from you!
Life is good. :) My first tournament of this year was October 26th/27th, my first time in OPEN! Needless to say, it was quite fun. I got 4th speaker in the Senate, and a perfect 20 in one of my IE rounds. Snohomish tourney is 11/16&17!!! I am SO going. :D We have about 4 duos right now, the most in our teams history, and 3 of them are awesome! Henry and Alex performed their duo today, and it was AMAZING! We were in hysterics! At one point Elliot was laughing so hard he was crying-I'd never seen him laugh that hard. :D What a riot. :D :D :D
Okay, I have a chemistry test tomorrow, then I'm going to a Murder Mystery dinner at Erika and Elliot's...it should be REALLY FUN!
Love to you all!