Summit Day 3

Forced to wake up at the ungodly hour of 7:00am, I had to get up and ready for quiz (bleh). Grace Covenant had two teams and I was on neither of them, so, to be honest, I couldn’t have cared less. I showed up for Grace Covenant 1’s participation round. We did so bad that we were out after the first round… but wait! Apparently, we were in a tie for the last team that would get to move on to the next round. So three tie breakers later, we were in the bronze round. So was our other Grace team. Both teams moved on easily from there and then lost in Gold round by 5 and 10 points respectively.

I actually didn’t see all of our quizzing, I only saw three speed rounds and two paddle round out of four of each, so I actually made it to the majority of quiz, but some people, Who I honestly do not know the name(s) of, didn’t like the fact that I was rarely (in their opinion) there. Here is what I was doing. Watched participation round of quiz

• Watched paddle for bronze round of quiz
• Watched a girl playing piano while I waited for the below event
• Watched Olympic Bible Fellowship’s fine arts drama
• Watched speed for silver round of quiz
• Found out how all the writing fine arts works in case I do come back next year
• Watched the beginning of Heather’s speech, which I left in the middle of so I could do the below
• Waited for Josh Kirsch (who didn’t come this year) to do his fine arts
• Watched the speed round of gold round for quiz
• Went up and swam with Alex

I had an hour and a half to do nothing. It was awesome, I messed around with all the music I got off of Brian’s iPod and then got ready for Citation ceremony. I was supposed to be down there at 6:00 sharp! BUT I wasn’t and I had an excuse: I was waiting for “Boondock Saints” to download on my iPod so I could watch it during the citation ceremony. :) I’m that cool.

So I show up and I’m sitting by two guys, which is the last thing I wanted. A really, really attractive girl was sitting behind me and two seats to the left but I couldn’t turn around and talk to her so that made me mad. What did I do? I WATCHED BOONDOCK SAINTS! It was quite awesome. So my parents couldn’t be there so my mom asked me to call her when I was going up so she could here. Well, there was a long line of AWANA missionaries waiting to shake my hand and tell me “Congratulations”, so I called her before I got to them. So she was sitting on the line for three minutes of nothing. When I was two people behind the guy who was currently getting his citation, I took the phone out of my pocket and said “alright mom, I’m up next so pay attention.” At this time, I was actually standing on the stage waiting for the person in front of me to get done taking pictures with Art Rorheim and whoever the other guy was. So then I stuck it upside down in my pocket and got my citation, then I shook MORE missionaries hands and I lost signal when I got back to my chair so I called my mom back and she told me that she heard me and she was proud of me. Then I had to go.

I spent the rest of the night wondering how I could talk to the girl in the red dress behind me. I couldn’t come up with anything (I’m surprise too) so I settled on “I like your dress”. That was the extent of it and I was a little upset.

We go out to eat and eat a $25 meal that I didn’t want. Then we get back and Frank calls a meeting. Apparently, people on the team have problems with other people and, instead of bringing it to the person who they had a problem with, they took it to other people, including Frank. So at the meeting, the people who were talking about “team unity” were the same ones who were having underlying problems with other people. It made me upset, but I got over it. The thing that really bugged me was that people had been complaining about how much time I was spending with Alex. It was more than a little annoying to me since I only see Alex for a week a year and I see them all the time. So that was another problem that I had to deal with. So I did.