Quizzing “Practice” and Other Randomness April 16, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration , 3commentsThere are reasons that we don’t tend to make it past Districts. “We” meaning the people with whom I practice. “Practice” meaning… well, sometimes I do have to wonder what it means.
The truth is, we laugh. A lot. We talk politics. We talk about whatever is going on — in the world, in school, in our lives. We also practice some quizzing. We talk about what the Bible means when it says such and such. We laugh — I already mentioned that, but it deserves being mentioned again. We smack each other and get frustrated with each other when the other people won’t buckle down and get to studying. We make up charades (if we ever do a charades quiz, I think we will have all the other churches beat. *grins*). We play tag-team quizzing. And by Districts quizzing, it is mostly down to the kids who love it the most and who have done the most of everything… laughing, teasing, and (hopefully) studying.
But even at Districts practice tonight, the practice-to-laughter ratio was… low.
Peter: “RECONCILED YOU BY CHRIST’S SON! And don’t say that’s wrong. ’cause it’s not.” *sits down*
Andrew: *cough cough*
me: “Peter. That was totally wrong.”
Peter: *glare*
me: “Christ’s son?“
Peter: “AGGGGH.”
Samwise jumped on a question about the verse He who has been stealing must steal no longer… but had no clue as to what it was about (stealing). The rest of us were trying to give him hints. So I grabbed the pocket knife which Andrew had been flipping around… Andrew gave me a most incredibly shocked look and then figured out where I was going with it. Unfortunately, Sam didn’t. Miss Dance tried saying to Sam, “Do you have anything in your pockets?” She’s too polite to be a pickpocket. 
Our clock was rather unhelpful. I think Sam diagnosed the problem as lack of a battery. He became disgusted with it, and, after Mr. G suggested that we use it as a frisbee (apparently all that it’s good for at the moment) tossed it out the window. Yes, it is spring, and the window was open. It landed on a shrub. Sam’s comment? “Time flies.” Ha. Ha.
Observation: It is difficult to concentrate on quizzing when David is coming and sticking his head in the window and making weird faces at me. Open doors don’t bother me as much.
Miss Dance and I were high-fiving each other. Peter was fortunate enough to be sitting in between us. Mr. G suggested that we high-five him in the head. It reminded me of Never a Dull Moment.
Andrew was being odd tonight. (Not that it’s anything new, but I usually don’t end up sitting next to him.) He has a habit of coughing in such a way that you can’t tell if he’s trying to give you a hint or choking on air. I… being the dreadfully helpful person which I am… whacked him on the back. He gave me another rather startled look. 
Fortunately, he didn’t hit me back — if he had, I probably would not be here typing this.
We did a really lovely tag-team quizzing effort… that is, it would have been lovely if someone had known the answer. Sam jumped and passed it off to Peter who gave it to Andrew who gave it to me, despite the fact that I had pointed out that I didn’t know the answer.
It’s strange how much James and Romans still come up. Samwise jumped on something that I was very glad that he, and not I, got, because my answer was straight out of Romans. Drupert tried something later about “Every good and perfect gift…” At least… we have good memories? We remember things three years later? Sort of like Butterbur. 
Now on to the other randomness.
We sang All in All tonight. That is classified in my mind as being a campfire song. Guitars. People singing. Stars outside. Good classes. Being a little chilly. And not having much of anything that needs to be focused on other than what you are learning in classes, what you are learning about God.
Those kinds of songs tend to make me want to cry.
Which is kind of crazy when I’m standing in youth group.
But, so it goes.
Today actually felt like the beginning of summer, so I ended up listening to or singing all sorts of summer-y music. Newsboys, Casting Crowns, Take You At Your Word by Avalon. Which brings me back to quizzing, and Districts.
Goodnight.Â
