i am

a future business leader of america.

in the beginning of the year, i went around telling my friends that. (it was sort of as a joke, i guess...) well, they laughed - more at me than with me. anyways, yesterday, I and fellow other FBLA members went over to west ranch high school to compete in the Gold Coast Sectional Conference. i was kind of apprehensive going into it, since i didn't really "know" anyone in fbla. sitting alone on the bus didn't really help either, but it was alright. jason and connie were infront, howard to the right, and tiffany northeast (haha). so it was alright.

on the way there, i crammed - flashcards, retook tests via iphone (technology is so convenient!) bonded with ipod. read some thief and dogs. thought about life. thought about my personal statement. thus far, i'm only a couple sentences into it.

i wish i took pictures that day, but i was worried that my phone would run out of battery (which it almost did) so...sorry! so we arrive at west ranch high school ,which is really close to six flags and calarts ..which are in valencia. haha. so we arrive. we sit around for a while, munching on granola bars and capri suns. by now, i've realized how painful heels are. i wore my mom's own heels (who knew my mom had oscar de la renta heels?!) so you can imagine how much i was complaining. finally, we get called into the gym for the opening ceremony crap. they made us sit through the campaign speeches for vp of something, vp of something else, president, and pr. honestly, the speeches were pretty cliche, corny, horrible, arrogant, boring, and too cutesy for my liking. ..but that made it so much more fun to make fun of them. one guy was talking about how he accomplished soooo much blahblahblah. fbla is kind of treated as a sport i guess. with teams and all and cheers. after all the speeches and school introduction crap, they announced the mr. fbla contest. they introduced the guys ,their height, their school, hobbies, and their favorite dance move. pretty funny...the talent contest was the most fun though. most guys sang. most guys sucked at singing. one sang love bug, one sang that one song, one did a really cool magic trick. but o m g one guy sang a song he wrote while playing guitar. it was like he was serenading the crowd. he was adorableeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. howard started doing the wave thing. ADORABLE!! (!P#!!! haha okay that's 'nuf.

testing
was so fucking insaaaaaaaaaane. honestly, almost nothing i studied was on the test. i can't even reiterate the types of questions on the test! gahhhh. i was so disappointed at that point. 1 hour, 100 questions. alot of venue questions, standard questions, historical questions, stupid questions. some question's grammar was so awkward and wrong. i thought it was weird how some people didnt take advantage of the full 60 minutes...odd. so it was me and jon up to the 60 minute mark. sitting there, staring at the test, checking our answers
i'm glad that i didnt take business calc first, or else my morale would've dropped dramatically. this test was even more insanely hard. 30 minutes in, i was only on questions 13. o.o insurance lingo that i didn't understand. analyzing graphs, charts, etc...and math?! omg. i ended up just filling in all Bs for the second half of the test.

six flags!
so i hung out with howard, aaron, michelle, elsa, lucy, tiffany, jason at six flags. x2 was closed when we went. so we went to eat. we ate for a long time...which bit us in the ass. then we went on tatsu. it was scarier than i expected! i seriously was screaming the whole time i was on. you're positioned belly down ,as if you were flying. and there's upside down loops and all that good stuff that was just O.O i just might die right now if the safety contraption lets out.
by then it was about 4 so we had to hustle if we wanted to get on another ride. so we chose goliath. everytime ive gone to six flags, i've always pussied out on going on goliath. have you seen it?! it's fucking HUGE! while we were in line, my hands were sweating and there were times where i zoned out... we played ABCD and boom chicka boom boom and ten fingers. in the end we just kinda talked since the game usually just died out.

magic moments theater
is ghetto. haha. they had benches instead of theater seating. i wasn't really nervous at first, but as the other events' finalists got called up, i started sweating again.. (oh dear). i started thinking of the hypothetical situations...if i didn't place, if i didn't place high, if i didn't make state. the whole time, i was just hoping to get called up as a top ten finalist, but right as they called my name, that thought erased. i was surprised when i wasn't called for 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, and at 6 they announced that 6th place and above made state. i was felt surprised, relieved, accomplished, satisfied (more than that), just that feeling of accomplishment, of having done something on your own. at that point, i was satisfied with anything. then they announced 6th, 5th, and i was amazed......was it possible for me to win this? and right then they called 4th place- from walnut high school......summer ko and killed it for me. they didn't even have a fucking plaque for me! i was kind of disappointed at that, but i was happy at the same time that i placed in top 5 and made state on my first trip to sectionals. bittersweet. i guess i couldn't have expected much ,right? i looked back and i saw aaron (aka jon) on stage still. !!! he placed second. very well-deserved. go walnut!

got corn, drove home, sleep.

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