HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. i won a medal for every event.

woke up ten minutes earlier than usual to go to the oldest school in the district. 1941 isn't old at all. Ribbons and Lace must be about 130 now and DGS is 180, probably. i got a t-shirt that says: PRIDE OF LANGHAM CREEK. oh ha ha.

Physics Lab with Stephanie was first. this was more chemistry lab, but i still knew nothing. she did all the maths, the scary task of lifting a cube of metal out of a beaker of boiling water while i looked at the thermometer and busied myself with mopping up the table. we had shit tongs that collapsed, especially when she was trying to get some the heavy lead out. it fell back in, splashing boiling water everywhere. luckily, Stephanie is a martial arts expert and jumped back in an impressive display of her excellent reflexes. then she dropped the cube into the cup and that splashed as well.

we thought we'd failed because we missed three problems out. then we got a 28% margin of error when trying to identify Aluminium. we won, which shows how crap everyone else is. Stephanie deserved all of it. i did, however, improvise a makeshift lid with folded-up tissue paper, which stopped a lot of heat from escaping. that might have been our edge.

next was Astronomy with Burjis- we didn't really study, but due to my very basic knowledge of stars, and his very good looking-up skills, we managed to get a lot of it done. it also helped that i printed off images of the 20 odd space objects we had to recognise, so we just checked them off. go us, we got bronze medals, we he wasn't there so i got to wear his. people were like, "how many did you win, Lok?"

i was quite confident about Remote Sensing. there were six people in Physics one day, so our teacher taught us about topographic maps, false colour infra-red and satellite composite images. how hard can recognising hill and rivers be? well, the notes i made were useless and everything starts to look the same after a while. a while being 50 something questions. we got the bronze, though. the other team from our school went to a library and found the book from which all the images of the test were taken. they aced it, naturally.

it was fun, i got to talk to people i wouldn't otherwise talk to, eat pizza and stress positively. Megan, she who helped me in induction day, was practically pulling her hair out. she got gold in all three events she did. am pleased that i didn't do same the amount of work. she was in MUN for the last two days as well... overacheiver. so this wasn't too hard, and our school's team is going to Texas A&M (in College Station, which i think is a town) in April 17th for the State Competition because we were the Overall Champions. this will look very good on paper. i'm too lucky.

i'd like to add that i saw a teenaged Matt there. he was wearing a suit jacket with a white t-shirt and jeans. come on! but then i realised that he was really more of a Jason Mraz. he was wearing a baseball cap and had crap hair. hey, i beat him in physics.

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