GPSD in Wisconsin was definetly something. I would like to say that it was fun, but the only fun thing I can think of is hanging out with one of my best friends, Jaelyn. The rest just ranged from awful to eh. Yes, that's how pessimistic I am. Do NOT give me a lecture on how to be optimistic though. I just got one from my doctor and countless lectures from my mother. I know how to be optimistic, I won the dang optimist club competition!
However, I didn't win the optimist speech competition thing at GPSD. I think I should have gotten second or third since my speech was very well written. However, I decided to present my speech in spoken english instead of ASL and I got beaten down for that. I was the only person presenting in spoken english and that's not good in a room full of deaf people, a panel of deaf judges, and an interpreter who can't fingerspell. However, I thought the people chosen were good choices except for one. I thought Linzie, a girl who had a very well written speech, should have won. Oh well though. I can't decide for the judges.
We got sixth place for academic bowl. However, in our defense, the format was odd. The teams would take turns answering questions. There were no buzzers. One team would go first and answer that question first. If they got it right, they were given a point and a bonus question. The other team couldn't answer unless the first team got it wrong. It was stupid as poop. The questions weren't balanced out right according to difficulty. Sometimes the other team got much easier questions than ours. It was plain dumb.
I teased Jaelyn about Brandan, this weird guy who asked for her phone number. Thankfully, we had to leave for the airport before he had time to walk upstairs to get his phone. I felt sorry for the poor dork, he was relatively harmless. Let's see, what else did me and Jaelyn do? We sang songs from Spongebob, talked to our friend John (his name is actually Andy. I would tell you why we call him John, but it's a pointless story), and we talked a lot about stalkers for some reason.
I am so odd around Jaelyn, but hey, we have fun. Thankfully though, I keep my common sense. I love that girl though. She's so much fun to be around in small doses. I had my Jaelyn fix for the week. I'll get to travel with her next week to the Jr. NAD conference in Riverside.
The weather in Wisconsin was awful. It was gray, cold, and drippy. It even snowed on our last day there. Ugg. Not cool. I LOVE rain if it's at a mild temperature. If the water is on the verge of freezing, then it's just not fun.
The plane ride home was late at night, but I had a cup of strong coffee to keep myself awake to help Jaelyn with her homework. She wanted me to read a few pages of Night by Elie Wiesel to help her with questions, but I ended up reading almost the entire book. She didn't mind me keeping the book from her, she decided to just not do the homework since the directions weren't very clear.
It was an amazing book though. I'll provide further commentary when I do the book reviews after I have completed my 13 books for the Read-a-Thon thing.
That was my trip to GPSD! Not much of an adventure, but it was still fun and not so fun. Goodbye!
