Happy March, everyone! My, how time flies when you're having fun? And clearly, that is what I must have been doing (having fun) to have not have written in so long... Actually, (if you can believe it) I have been incredibly busy with school. Apparently this is the pile on the homework month. As I mentioned in my last post, we had another Science Olympiad invitational on February 25. Since it was so far away, we decided to drive there on Friday and stay the night, which turned out to be a good plan. The hotel we stayed in was quite comfortable and had good decor, and my sister and I went swimming on Friday night with a couple of other people from the team who were also staying there. At the actual meet, we did pretty well, and other than the school being quite confusing, I enjoyed myself. I believe that overall, the team scored 5th, and on my events, I got a 1st (which was totally unexpected because we couldn't do part of the test), 2nd, 3rd, and two 5ths. In the event that I was put in last minute, microbe mission, I was able to make some contributions and not feel completely useless, which made me happy. The only unenjoyable part of the day was my event Sounds of Music, where you build and play your own instruments. Well, the person who was asking us to describe how we built our instruments was extremely uncooperative. At times my partner and I thought he was joking, but apparently he wasn't. At one point, he asked if we cut the wood on the instruments ourselves, so we answered truthfully that it was my Dad who actually cut the wood, but we designed everything and put things together, etc. But looking at what he wrote on our score sheet, he obviously didn't hear the "but". Maybe his hearing aid selectively hears things, or something. After that question, the questioning went immediately downhill, and we never quite recovered. When I finally got to playing, I accidentally skipped a line, which completely messed us up. But other than that (and the extend awards ceremony with a bunch of immature middle school-ers), I enjoyed myself.
Basically since then, my life has been one test after another. From March 6-March 8, we had a bunch of standardized test to take, which exhausted me for a few days following. Tuesday was the ACT, and we got to leave after the test was over, but on Wednesday and Thursday, we had to stay at school for the rest of the day and go to classes! Let's just say that I was a little out of it after those tests. At one point, I was almost about to go to the wrong class when one of my friends stopped me. Then, on Saturday, I had to get up early and take the SAT. I have two questions: who is the stupid person that scheduled the SAT in the week of statewide testing, and why did my mom sign me up that day, of all days??? Actually, it wasn't too bad, other than being the last room out because, for some reason, the room wasn't set up when we got there, and then we had to put it back the way it was in the end. Being honest, though, I was so tired of taking tests that that might not have been my best test score.
In the meantime, I have been celebrating a bunch of birthdays. My sister had her birthday on February 27th, yesterday was my friend's birthday (as well as my half-birthday), so I got her a chocolate cupcake, and today is my brother's birthday. I think my mom got a marzipan cake for my brother, which we will eat tonight. I am sure it will be delicious. And speaking of deserts, March 14 was Pi day, so, naturally, we had to get some pie. That was very tasty as well. Lastly, a random side note - I just finished reading Silent Spring by Rachel Carson for my English class, and enjoyed it a lot. Even though it was a bit outdated, I found it enlightening and would recommend it to anyone. So, until I have another day of testing - next Saturday, the Regional competition for Science Olympiad!
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