Omg States was like so much fun for me! Like missing school was awesome enough but like the whole thing was awesome! It required a lot of work on my part though, constructing and launching bottle rockets, but placing 2nd in the state was awesome!
First was the bus ride. I sat with one of my bestfriends for the 3 hour long bus ride. It was a lot of fun! Didn’t really do much on the ride there though. I still enjoyed it a lot!
Next we went on like a nature walk thing or something. It was like kinda boring for me since I really didn’t do much there. Apparently part of the trail (the best part) was closed and many people that were at States previous years complained about it. I honestly didn’t care too much, but other people said it would’ve been soo much more fun if it were open. Instead we ended up eating lunch right there. I tried skipping stones with another one of my bestfriends, I failed and he did amazing so I ended up just looking for rocks for him to skip, but then we got in trouble cause we weren’t supposed to throw rocks or something. Then we took like team pictures and all and I had to grab and hold my other bestfriend so she would be in the picture. Then we had to like walk all the wway to the buses, my bestfriends looked occupied so I went to play football with some 8th graders while we were walking back!
After that we checked into the hotel. I thought it would’ve been one of those crappy holiday inns, but turned out that it was pretty nice! The room had two beds though and I was rooming with 3 people… Luckily the bestfriend across the hall brought an extra sleeping bag for me, so I used it to sleep when it was “lights out”. The hotel had a nice arcade too! I spent $20 worth of tokens to try beating the terminator game there. I split the tokens with my partner (one of my weirder friends) to beat it eventually! She wasn’t too bad, but I beat her like everytime ;D I found out that I’m really terrible at air hockey though, I ended up scoring on myself more than I scored on the other player, which in the end made me lose everygame xD Then we went to our rooms and like didn’t realy do much, we were supposed to sleep at like 11pm according to one of the toomates but like we were too busy making noises and sounds and talking to fall asleep until one got serious about it then told us to stfu and sleep.
Next Day, first we woke up to our usual Sexy and I Know It alarm. I couldn’t tell if I had slept for long since I remember being awake when everyone else was sleeping and then like hearing the alarm and like instantly being awake. I never checked the times I was awake, might’ve been the whole night or I might’ve slept a little. I got up and like got ready, then my roomates and I decided to mix a Monster and 5 Hour Energy together to make an ultimate energy cocktail or something! Then we pakced everything up and then went downstairs for breakfast. The breakfast line was ridiculously long, like stretching out across the hallway. Apparently almost every team that was competing stayed overnight in the hotel so there was like every team getting breakfast. The breakfast was crappy though, I almost threw up after eating some.
Then we went to SUNY Ulster. It was really boring at first, I was sick for sometime and I was like feeling really bad. I watched some bottle rockets being launched and timed them, they weren’t very good at all. The top time I saw was about 7 seconds. I walked around and wished my friends good luck on their events and kinda just chilled and walked around. We played football instead of eating lunch like gelinas vs Port Jeff. It was funny since both teams really sucked. I barely did anything. Saw that one bottle rocket got like 20secs and then 18secs. Knew that they were gonna get first since they were really good since 4 weeks ago and we just started building a week or 2 before the competition. Then we launched our rockets, I hoped that we wouldn’t fail and that we’d be ok. Since I was an alternate I sat on the side and like watched the launches. I was happy that we got 18 and 17 seconds for each our rockets!
Then there was the awards ceremony. It was realy boring at first and the bleachers in the gym sucked. It was like hot and sticky in the whole gym and it was just horrible. I was actually nervous at first, but then realized that we would definately make it to the national tournament so I wasn’t suprised that our school got 2nd in the state and made to nationals! It was amazing! Everyone was so happy! I was too! Took pictures of us and the winnig trophy, but it was cheap and broke within the few minutes that the team recieved it.
Then we went to eat dinner. The food was pretty bad, worse than the previous nights dinner in my opinion. I didn’t eat too much, I didn’t feel that good again, but it got better quickly.
Finally was the bus ride home. It was better than the bus ride there by a lot. I didn’t sleep even though I felt tired. The Science Olympiad coach told me that I was going to come with the team to the National Tournament next month because I helped contribute to the team’s success or something. I guess I helped with bottle rockets but Idk how much I actually helped.
Overall it was a lot of fun and I’ll be looking forward to next month! :D
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Played airsoft today for like the first time in months. It was kinda fun. I shot people a lot and then got shot a lot. My gun is alright. Everyone else loves it though. WE need more people to play. It got boring with 5 people, one with a sucky gun that couldn’t shoot 5 feet. I’ll prob be playing again with them later during break though xD
So glad Spring Break is here! It’s awesome. I actaully have things to do this break. I have to take over bottle rockets for my partner since he’s going away to Hawaii. I can’t believe he’s leaving it to me though since I’m really dumb. I spent the day try to make stuff but ending up yelling at the materials since I couldn’t get it to work the way I wanted it to.
Track practices over break. It might ruin it all!
Going to play airsoft this Friday. Might go paintballing or something, but I have no idea.
Going to the Movies to see the Raid Redemption and Hunger Games.
Working on Bottle rockets. Building and testing until my partner gets back.
Should be an interesting break! xD
