Yeah, I know I said I would make an update soon, but it didn’t exactly turn out that way, huh? And no, I haven’t been sleeping straight So I apologize for those of you who have been refreshing my page every two minutes to get the latest and greatest story straight from the horse’s (I mean… my) mouth. And now that I’ve put it off, I have even more to add, including the ever-fun AP scores and college registration. But first, the trip to Greensboro and National Beta, right after these words from our fine sponsors.
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So, the first day, I got up super-early (for me at least), at 5:00 (yes, AM). Got a shower, all that good stuff you normally do for hygenic purposes, got all my stuff together, and packed up to leave for the High School parking lot. Got there slightly early (about 5 minutes), so I talked to the other people who had gotten there already. Soon Debbie! (<-yes, that exclamation point is mandatory) got there with the bus, and we loaded everything up and all that good stuff you would regularly do to prepare for a long ride. And yes, the bus ride was very long. If I had thought the drive to San Antonio/Corpus Christi was bad, it was nothing compared to this. And it wasn’t a charter bus… no, it was just a regular school bus (it did have air conditioning and the best bus-driver ever, so that helped it a little). So we drove. And drove. And then, for good measure, we drove some more. When we finally got to Nashville, we first went to the Parthenon and toured it. Our tour guide was pretty weird, and had a very heavy Russian-esque accent. The Parthenon was pretty neat. Then we drove over to the Opryland “complex” (I supposed that’s what you’d call it), where we were to spend the night (take that, suckas!) After we got checked in, got all our stuff to the rooms, we went over to the mall. The group I was with just walked around for a while, and we ate the “The Aquarium” restaurant. It was friggin’ good (and friggin’ expensive, too!)! I can honestly say that their Blackened Catfsh is the best fish meal I have ever had in my life. And it actually did have an aquarium in the restaurant. After the mall closed, we went back to the hotel and just scattered about, and enjoyed the scenery. It’s massive inside the Opryland. And there’s tons of foliage to look at. It’s very cool.
The next day, we did more of our favorite activity in the world, we drove nearly all day in the bus. So yeah, we drove ’til about 8 o’clock at night, when we got to Greensboro. We didn’t really do anything else interesting that day.
The next morning, we had Quiz Bowl competion, where we won our first match against Byng, Oklahoma, but got knocked out of the second round. Ate at the mall in Greensboro (it’s one of the biggest malls I’ve seen, but that doesn’ mean anything). Afterwards, we were required to go to the campaign meetings. I thought that most of the speeches and skits really weren’t that good. I though some of the ones at Arkansas’ Beta Convention were better, but what do I know? After that, there was the Special Talent portion, and the talent was really good, except from this one girl from Texas, but I’m not going into that catastrophe. Afterwards, some people (including Mr. Vest!) went to Hooters to eat. I didn’t go, though. I went with some people, and we met other peeps in the lobby area. And there was the best thing ever. These people from Tenessee (I think… I’m not completely sure about that, though) were going around offering money for someone to go to their state Beta President (he wasn’t running at Nationals, though) and pretend to be gay. Finally, Jake Li (some of you may remember him as the “China-Man” that was running for secretary) agreed to do it, with some hillarious results.
The fourth day included a trip to Wet and Wild: Emerald Point waterpark. I really didn’t enjoy it. Though Wesley, Nicci, and I made a friggin’ awesome sandcastle. (In fact, we deemed it “Castle Friggin’ Awesome”) Sandcastles > Joo During the General Session that day, the Group Talent competitors preformed, and man… some of these schools put some major cash into their sets. They were all really good.
The next day, we went to the last General Session, and they had this guest speaker/motivator who was really good, in my opinion. Then there was the prerequisite awards and “You’re Leaving, I’m Going to Miss You” speeches, though they weren’t actually all that bad. After the session, we packed up and left for more great times on the road… in a bus… not fun… We got to Nashville again, and stayed in the “Millenium Maxwell House Hotel” (and yes, the coffe in the room was Maxwell House brand). Then we went downtown and looked at “The Strip.” It wasn’t very interesting, but I did buy a T-Shirt at Hard Rock that’s friggin awesome.
The next day we loaded up again, and made a stop at “Loretta Lynn’s Crappy Kitchen. However, we did find something very cool in the gift shop. They sold Katanas there (in case you didn’t know katana = samurai sword). Of course, a ton of poeple bought one (including myself). So now it’s know as Loretta Lynn’s Samurai Sword Shop or something like that. We continued to drive even more, until we finally got home.
Though I did love the trip, I was glad to finally be home and sleep in my own bed.
Next on the agenda, AP test scores:
Chemistry = 1 (what I planned on getting, in case you don’t know… don’t take AP chem)
English = 2
Calculus = 3
Finally, today I registered for college classes today. I’m only taking four classes, but that’s still 15 hours of classes. I got Calculus I (5! hours), Comp I (3 hours), Computer Science (4 hours), and World History I (3hours). Not too bad, I submit.
So I hope you people are happy, now that you have your Bryan’s stuff fix. That’s all I have for now… tune in next time, (probably not the) same Xanga time, (more likely) same Xanga channel!
And excuse me if I left errors in my typing, I didn’t go back and read over it.