mission accomplished

partially, anyway.

in mock trial we uhm...were cruel to hudson school, wrecked high tech, and killed union hill, but alas, did not own bayonne. we were very close, though. we made it all the way to finals and we gave it our A-game, but i guess it wasn't enough. =/ oh well.

aaron was sad because he was no longer undefeated. my personal record is 3-1, which is all right with me. and aaron gave me one of the best compliments i've ever received--"between you and my sister, i learned from the best." =) it makes me really happy because both miriam and aaron are really great.

another great compliment i was given was from mark who said, "i'm glad i know my best friend is a virgin." not only because he's sure of my chastity, but it's nice to be called someone's best friend. =D

everyone did such a great job for mock trial. christine and aaron were fierce and brought out their best against bayonne, semira grew so much and was absolutely amazing. i think i did well, too. haha. and all our witnesses were awesome. ashlei is a worthy second-generation fani. both are so passionate and so great, perhaps the best witnesses i've seen. shah and amro were awesome experts and i'm just amazed that amro learned his stuff so quickly and was so good. he was a fitting b. f. skinner. i love sarah and it's nice to know that mock trial has a great future; she's going to be a great attorney and i fully endorse her, and even if she decides to only be a witness next year, she'll still be great. and of course, mark proved to be a great witness as i knew he'd be. he was the best crier there. =)

and we had decathlon yesterday. kirsten made us all t-shirts! i'm glad we finally have decathlon shirts, lol i came up with the slogan because we couldn't think of anything else. the theme is civil war, so i suggested "for scores and medals, here we go." sometimes i worry that people won't get aural puns. like in my speech, which i was editing until 4:30 AM the day of the competition and had to memorize quickly, i say, "we grew quite close. we were like two Bs in a Bach." i think the judges got it.

i think we did well, but we won't know for sure until tuesday. i hope and pray we go to states. i owe all my success to God and i'm hoping that we're meant to go on to states again this year. please, Lord!

we learn who won speech and essay on monday, though. i'm defending champ for the essay category so i'm really hoping i get it again. but who knows? as long as i earned the team a good amount of points i'll be happy. i'm aiming for 7,000 points, i guess, just so i can better myself. (last year regionals was about 6,700, i think).

now i will have time to write! yay!