Update from Vegas

Hello Everyone.

Day one at the National Tournament. Boy part of me wants to tell you how many people there are here, because its huge, but part of me wants to tell you its just like every other tournament I've attended back home in Idaho. So I won't tell you about either :P. Hee Hee.

OH I know I'll tell you about how specific the rules are here. Its crazy. So we are split up into 45 different sections and then theres about five people in each section, but they can't just write names in order, no that would be too simple. Instead they give us crazy numbers like U890 and U345. And they expect you to remember it! When its your turn (After you've spent forever looking for your stupid number) you go up to the counter with your number and draw three questions. You have to keep one and lay the other two face down. Now here's the kicker: You have to say in this order your section number, your code number, and the number on the question.
Now try to remember there are 45 of us all trying to do this at the same time. "25, U894, B2" "39, U332, C7" "3, U132, A1" It was really crazy. And if you don't do it that order they have full rights to yell at you. YIKES!

I did four speeches today. Here were my category areas:

1. Education and Issues of Youth
2. American Politics (MY FAVORITE!!)
3. Environment and Sciences
4. The Wars

I did pretty good. I have two more speeches tomorrow, and then I find out if I will go on.

I'm off to bed, giving four speeches is exhausting!

Smiles,
Joyful :)

Shopping!

So today we went shopping in Vegas.

Well, first we registered for my events. That was really fun. We went to the student union center at UNLV. They had all kinds of vendors and colleges there. Oh, and the free stuff!!!!!!!!! Did I tell you that i L-O-V-E! Free stuff! I mean, I got two or three decks of cars, a nice fabric bag, pens galore, orderforms, buisness cards, and brouchures. I mean they had it all. Well, except for the college that i really wanted to meet, Point Lomma Nazarene. So we're walking around all these random little colleges from the middle of nebraska and oklahoma, wisconsin, and then i see this sheet of paper where point lomma should have been, but were. they there? Of course not, the one college i really wanted to talk to, doesn't show up. But hey! What can ya do.

I'm off to e-mail point lomma and ask them if they'll be here later this week. Well see.

So after collecting all my free stuff (except for my awesome stuff that wasn't there from point lomma), i went outside. They had all sorts of fun stuff. Kareokee, basketball, a zero gravity machine, it was crazy. We toodled around there, and then left to return to our hotel.

Then the shopping! Well, i don't know why i titled this blog shopping. We went to the outlet malls, and nobody really got anything. I got a few shorts and Mom and Gramma picked up a few other little things. But really we didn't get much, (But hey who needs to shop when you can get a ton of free stuff!)

Well off to have dinner (grilled cheese and tomato soup, my favorite!)

Enjoy your day.

Smiles,
Joyful :)

Welcome to Vegas!

Hi everyone!

I'm in Las Vegas Nevada. Why? For the National High School Speech and debate competition. I qualified back in February and I can't believe I'm fianlly here!
We register today and the tournoment gets under way tomorrow at 8am (ick, i'm not a morning person). I'm super excited.

I'll tell you what happens, but for now i have to go and get ready for the day (And decide which flip flops to wear green or orange, i just can't decide)

Anywho,

Talk to ya later,
Smiles, Joyful :)