Districts II April 27, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration, smiling is good for you , trackbackVarious other quotes and stories…
The church was hot. VERY hot. So hot that I just walked in and opened the window in Mr. S’ room, without asking if it was okay if it was opened… (Rachel, who was keeping score, is always cold!) Samwise: “Hace muy calor.” [It is very hot.] I realized that he was sort of addressing me and finally agreed with him. Peter said that it took me long enough.
Speaking of windows and Samwise, he almost jumped through a closed window on Friday. He was going to run out the open door and re-enter through the open window. However, as soon as he exited the room, Andrew slammed the window shut. We all laughed. Sam came flying at the window at rather top speed and came to a screeching halt. Hadn’t quite forseen that happening…
Anyway, when I opened the window, the guys on the team in front of the window threatened to sue me!
Ben L: “If a bullet comes through that window and hits me, I’m going to sue you.” (I want to see how he’s going to do that!)
Evan: “If [something, I forget what] happens, I’ll sue you.”
At least they wouldn’t be suing me for dying of heatstroke.
I was high-fiving Miss Dance’s team. I got her, got Tim, got Sarah, got Michael, and was standing there waiting for Johnny. Given the fact that he was coughing his head off, I decided NOT to high-five him and instead just go with, “Have a good quiz.” But then he continued to cough and I added, “Are you okay?”
Johnny: *very convincingly* “Yeah! *cough* I’m fine! *cough cough* *choke* No problem at all! Have a — *cough — great quiz!” *whacks himself in the chest* “Okay, good. I’m good now.”
Also as we were going into Mr. S’ room yesterday (this was before I opened the window) I realized that it was the especially hot room…
me: “Oh no! Not this room again!”
Meghan: “AAAAH, no!”
me: “Everyone take a deep breath!”
Meghan and I: *GASP*
everyone else: *stares at us* *starts laughing*
I’m just realizing that I have a lot of stories from Mr. S’ room…
Johnny: *jumps on a quote the two verses* *says them* *goes to sit down*
Mr. S: “I need your reference please.”
Johnny: “Oh. Yeah. Eight and nine.”
Mr. S: “No, I’m sorry, that’s wrong.”
Johnny: *heart stops* (You could literally see him freeze.)
Mr. S: “It was verses eight and twelve.”
Johnny: *verrrrry slowly starts to breathe again* “Hahaha. Wow. You scared me. I was like, WHAT????“
He explained to me later that he had almost passed out. I don’t think that was an exaggeration.
Also in Mr. S’ room, I was watching a quiz. Mark got one right. (He is in the habit of doing that, having come ridiculously close to have a perfect year.) Danielle started going crazy. Sarah, who was sitting beside her, gave her an odd look and then also started jumping up and down. After a minute, everyone in the room turned around to see what they were screaming about. A spider. Things took a few minutes to settle down. 
Uhhh yeah. Relevant quotes: “I had no idea what was wrong! I thought that you were so excited about Mark getting a question!” “Timeout for the audience!”
My team this year was fun. It was an all girls’ team — Joanna, Sarah, me, and Mary Beth — and Joanna rather suddenly realized that we all had blue eyes. Okay.
During the one time out Joanna whipped out her calculator (which is named Connie) and started calculating her average. (”Her score is so high she needs a calculator!”) This was obviously much to the amusement of everyone in the room. As I said in the last post, easily amused.
And to be fair, I ought to include myself in the “easily amused” category. During the top 15 quiz offs… where I’m not sure that a single question made it past the second syllable unless part of the reference had to waited for… Griffin decided to start finishing the questions and answering them for me. (Quietly, so that the kids quizzing couldn’t hear.) I actually started laughing. Oh dear. It really cannot have been that funny. Adrenaline does funny things to people’s minds.
Joanna: “Filthy language from your lips.”
Quizmaster: “Shame on you! That’s correct.”
Michael: *answers*
Mr. C: “…I’m sorry. You were in Galatians two.”
Michael: “Oh. Okay.” *walks dejectedly back to his seat*
Mr. C: “But so was I. Good job.”
(We seem to have some rather sadistic quizmasters who enjoy watching us squirm!)
Jordan and I were making plans for a new kind of Districts. Plans which involved everyone promising not to jump until at least the third syllable of the questions. There would be fewer errors, more points, and it seemed like it would make everyone happy. Jordan was in, and I was watching, a quiz this year where everyone in it (okay, there were only five people in it, but still) had perfect quiz outs. That was lovely. We should do it more often.
Unfortunately, we didn’t quite manage to get everyone else on board with that plan.
Abbi: *is sitting by herself in the corner*
Peter: “She looks lonely.” *goes to check on her*
Abbi: “Oh no, I’m just humming.”
Peter: *comes back* “She says she’s fine. And she sent me away.”
me: “Don’t bother her, she’s busy!”
Peter: “She’s humming!”
me: “Yes! She’s busy humming!”
Peter: *rolls eyes*
He and I tried pretending that we had never met before. I don’t think it was very convincing. ^_^
Griffin was sitting beside me during some of the top 15 quizzing (obviously, as he was telling me the answers, and you can’t be yelling them across the sanctuary!) and cheering for everyone. I don’t know if I made a face at him or what, conveying something like, Griff, that is my ear, and I used to be able to hear out of it!
Griffin: “Sorry if I yell.”
me: “You do.”
Griffin: *laughs* “I know.”
If?
Michael: *freaking out* “I don’t know what to do! I don’t know what to do! Call a timeout!”
…meantime…
Joanna (who was not on Michael’s team): *jumps up to call her own timeout*
Johnny (Michael’s captain, and Joanna’s younger brother): *jumps up frantically to call a timeout* “Timeout! Hey! Timeout!”
Joanna: “Um, Johnny –”
Johnny: “TIMEOUT!”
Joanna: “Haven’t you used up all your timeouts?”
Johnny: “I need a timeout!!!!”
Quizmaster: “Um, yeah. You used them all.”
Joanna: *grins* “I’ll call a timeout for you.” (Which she had been going to do anyway!)
us: *looking for our coach — Mrs. B, Sarah’s mom*
Sarah: *sighs* “I bet she’s at the health food store. We drove in here and she goes, ‘Aah! LOOK! A health food store!’ and I’m like, “Moooooommmm!’”
*talking with Johnny between the top 15 quizzes* (He was very close to being in the top five at that point. Talk about wound up.) We decided that really, quizzing is simple. “Jump! And answer questions. Correctly. Two steps to success.” *grins*
Johnny did make it into the number five position, thus saving many people a lot of nail-biting. (The top ten go to Internationals.) So… I caught Johnny — that is, he caught me — out in the foyer. He was talking to Emily and began yelling at me. “Wasn’t it? WASN’T IT???”
me: “Wasn’t what? And good job Johnny!” *starts to walk away*
Johnny: “GET BACK HERE. Now tell Emily. Wasn’t it?”
me: “Wasn’t what?”
Johnny: “Wasn’t that last quiz AWESOME????”
me: “YES.”
Johnny: “Woo. Dude. I am just so obnoxious up there.”
Emily and me: “No you aren’t!!!”
Johnny: *grinning* “Yeah I am! I’ve got this jacket, and, wow, last year I had…” *runs fingers along face*
me: “Yeah, blue stripes… which I missed seeing.” (Actually, I did obviously see it, as he had used my paint, I just didn’t get to watch him quiz that way. *sigh*) “Augh, that was incredible.”
So then I got a hug from Johnny. Which was also incredible. (Johnny just is incredible. You have to know him.)
And I’d like to add that I was really pleased with how my friends did this year. Aside from all the top 10 people, who are good quizzers. I was proud of Michael (who as a first year quizzer did some absolutely phenomenal quizzing — Michael: “Hopefully next year I’ll know what I’m doing.” For a guy who “didn’t know what he was doing”, he did very well.) and Samwise did some great quizzing. He was content with how he did. I was impressed with how he did.
I know I’ve thought of a few more stories from Districts, but I think that’s mostly it for now.
And I did cry yesterday, but it was because I was hacking slicing an onion up. I came pretty close to it walking out of the building though. Oh well. To quote Antion, Hasta luego. I am confident that I’ll be seeing many of those kids again. Our citizenship is in heaven…
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nothing about how well i did why you little rude unthoutfull freak
(actuly i didnt do too well at distrects)
YAAAAAAAY!!!!! DISTRICTS!!!!!!! Man, I wish I could have just come and hung out with y’all. That would have been so much fun! ^_^
Oh yeah. There was this one speech tournament where the room was BOILING!!!! Hence the Judah breaking the window incident.
I am depressed I was there (not as a quizzer, but still the same) and you forgot the most famous quote: Respect the tie,RESPECT IT!. Districs was pretty fun this year but nothing can top last year I must say . Especially when John gambled away our roster! (its a peice of paper with our names on it so the quizmaster knows who to call on.)
lol and u also forgot about the rain