Chiles High School Invitational

It was today. I volunteered for approximately 8 hours. It was insane.
I had to proctor the Algebra I people for the first session. They were quite loud... Diana was in the next room (my English teacher's room) and Shuyao was proctoring on the other side (which was my Spanish teacher's room) and I was in the middle, in some random Dual Enrollment English class that looked like AP Lit.
For the second session, no one wanted to go in my room until the last minute, when FINALLY, the main group of Deerlake geometry people came. Marshall was like, "It's my cousin." and they came in. In no time, I had as many people as tests- 25. Unfortunately for me, there was door between Diana's room and my room, and their pencil sharpener had problems (Diana later told me to tell my English teacher to get a new pencil sharpener...) and so random people came into my room to sharpen pencils. Then, more random people came in. I had to make sure I had 25 people quite a few times. Plus, they kept walking around... Yige, Lisa, Catherine, Vickie, Joseph, and some other Chinese girl were all in my room. It was awwwwwesome. They were really good (angelic, compared to my first session...). Someone asked for scratch paper, and I was like, "only if you desperately need it" and they all desperately needed paper. Before, our MAO president had told us not to give out paper because it was expensive. I said, "the papers aren't double-sided and you could rip off the cover..." so Marshall said, "what if I like the cover?". More people wanted paper, so I took it out of my box. To my astonishment, I had around 50 pieces of paper. Handing out paper was interesting. Random people wanted more than one, and then this Lincoln kid couldn't decide whether he wanted 2 or 3, and this kid with a Wisconsin sweater said he didn't want one but I forced one of him since Wisconsin is awesome. It even had Bucky on it. Then, I had ONE PAPER LEFT so I held it up and said, "I have one more paper left...", turned around to walk back, and suddenly, almost half the room raised their hands for the paper. I had no idea who to give it to, so Marshall said "I'm your cousin!" so I gave it to him. Then, this Deerlake kid thought that was unfair. LOL! The rule-reading was weird because they said stuff like, you can only have your calculator, answer sheet, packet, and a pencil on your desk, but calculators are NOT allowed except for Stats... Both sessions were sooo boring... For the second one, I stared at everyone more because the room was so full. PARtially through the test, Yige dropped one of his scratch papers, and I had to go pick it up so he wouldn't have an opportunity to cheat. Then, this Deerlake kid diagonally to the right of him(same one who thought it was unfair that I gave the last paper to my cousin even though everyone already had at least one) dropped his test packet about 20 minutes later. He picked it up too quickly for me to walk over there, though. Throughout the hour, random Deerlake Chinese kids would look up at the time. That was interesting. And then, random people who look at me like they expected me to turn into a rabbit for them or something. After everyone was done, Marshall obtained the maximum possible number of pencils. I let him take the one that belonged to the school that was in the box, and poor Diana was like, "It's the schools!!!". But Chiles is so rich... Then, we had free lunch because of our awesome haleconia-colored t-shirts. I stole Diana's sweater and William and I ran around for a while (William ended up walking) until we hid behind the brick poles and Diana came to get it back, which made her say she that wasn't talking to us on Monday even though she is. After Diana and almost everyone else who we'd seen left, William and I hung out for a while in Mr. Friedlander and Mr. Goldstein's rooms. William finally sent Jack the picture of all the food. He pretended to be the food god. It was interesting. Then, off to the awards ceremony... We kind of stood in this small-ish group of Chiles people, but when the PPT presentation started, I went and sat in front of Marshall, who was on the left of Yige, who was on the left of Joseph. Joseph was funny. To get my attention, he said, "Hey, Marshall's cousin!". Yige surprisingly knew my name very well. That was kind of scary. Marshall didn't call me anything. If he wanted to say something to me, he either looked at me, or, since most of the time I was facing the other way, he would lean over and I basically had to realize that he was talking to me because his voice got closer. PARtially though the PPT presentation, the music abruptly stopped, and after that, it was chaos. The results wouldn't come because they were having technical problems, so all this weird stuff happened. Some guy opened Notepad and wrote messages (with really bad typing) to everyone while there was a small Rubik's Cube-off (during which Joseph and Yige tried to get Marshall to go up...) and the FU people spoke about their Nu Alpha Theta and their ugly blue and orange shirts. Ann and Lila did the worm before that. Michael and William spent much of the awards ceremony playing Tic-Tac-Toe with a DS Lite. My cousin was the only Deerlake person who placed in Geometry, with something like 12th place. When they got to Alpha Open, more people were missing and so they all "volunteered" to go up for people. No one did, but after most of the commotion, Marshall said, "I wanna be a girl." I fearfully turned around to him and Yige was chuckling.
The trophies were odd. As soon as I looked up at the tables, I expected to see shiny, beautiful gold-colored things. Instead, they were tiny, 5-inch tall pieces of hard substance with a circular part that could spin. Many Chinese guys were amused by the thing that spun after they received it. It was insane. A lot of CHS officers were mad because our sponsor had ordered them, and never told them about it. Those things were tiny. The sweepstakes awards were little rectangular pieces of ugly glass. The team trophies were hideous...
Vestavia Hills dominated the competition, obviously. All these preppy-looking people did amazingly.
What a long day... So many little things happened. I guess it was kind of fun, but not as good as I wished. A lot of people left right after lunch with the free food, and Jack, Par, and much to the dismay of a few Deerlake Asians, David, didn't go because they had already planned to procrastinate with the history fair by using the last weekend (it's due next Tuesday) to complete it. William procrastinated even more. He purposefully stayed for the awards ceremony so that he wouldn't have to work on it for a longer amount of time. I guess I was the only non-officer, non-sponsor, non-allumnae (I don't remember how many L's it has...) who didn't have copious amounts of homework, tennis, or dates. HAH- dates... That brings me to my VP... He actually asked me "how did our school do"... The older students WROTE THE TESTS... Wow...
I think that's enough for now.
I've successfully procrastinated with my history homework that I should've finished today.) (one-eyed smiley)