Today I wrote thank you notes to iStar Financial, (who gave me the $100 savings bond), Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica. They were pretty identical, though.
I've been getting lots of congratulations from people, and it feels weird. I can only imagine what it's going to be like at school tomorrow. People already know me as the speller girl and such, but now that's going to be basically my whole identity. Especially from my science teacher, who enjoys making football references just to see my reaction (bored), and who also types about 3 words per minute, hitting the spacebar instead of tab.
This is gonna be great.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Spelling Bee
I haven't posted in a while. But my mom was talking about it, so I just now remembered to blog! Whoops.
Nothing much has changed, until yesterday when I won the spelling bee! This means I am going to the National Spelling Bee. It's something I've seen on ESPN for like 5 minutes, but aside from watching Akeelah and the Bee I don't really know what to expect. Mom always said I could make it, but I just shrugged and told her "We'll see." Going was never my goal.
At the bee, I told myself that I just wanted to be in the top ten. But when Therese dropped out in the 5th round, I told her "I'll win it for both of us". However, I didn't really believe that. Every time I came up to the microphone, I braced myself, thinking, This is it. This is the word I won't know. This is as far as I'm going. But I knew almost every single word! There was "nightingale", "tortilla", "bratwurst", "nemesis", "ostentatious", "precipitate", "oregano", "turpentine", "monomanical" ( i just guessed for that one), "poultice", "cyanide", and the winning word was "deciduous". Pretty easy considering some of the other ones: ""malloseismic" was a word I would have spelled wrong. So was "shaddock". Not exactly common words.
So, I have a 3-foot tall plastic trophy that I don't know where to put, two 4-inch binders full of words to study, a book written by last year's winner, a dictionary, $20 that I got after registering, and a reservation for a hotel in D.C.! But I probably won't get to see the sights, even though I love the subways & museums.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee starts on June 2. Wish me luck! I'll try to write an update every day while I'm there.
Nothing much has changed, until yesterday when I won the spelling bee! This means I am going to the National Spelling Bee. It's something I've seen on ESPN for like 5 minutes, but aside from watching Akeelah and the Bee I don't really know what to expect. Mom always said I could make it, but I just shrugged and told her "We'll see." Going was never my goal.
At the bee, I told myself that I just wanted to be in the top ten. But when Therese dropped out in the 5th round, I told her "I'll win it for both of us". However, I didn't really believe that. Every time I came up to the microphone, I braced myself, thinking, This is it. This is the word I won't know. This is as far as I'm going. But I knew almost every single word! There was "nightingale", "tortilla", "bratwurst", "nemesis", "ostentatious", "precipitate", "oregano", "turpentine", "monomanical" ( i just guessed for that one), "poultice", "cyanide", and the winning word was "deciduous". Pretty easy considering some of the other ones: ""malloseismic" was a word I would have spelled wrong. So was "shaddock". Not exactly common words.
So, I have a 3-foot tall plastic trophy that I don't know where to put, two 4-inch binders full of words to study, a book written by last year's winner, a dictionary, $20 that I got after registering, and a reservation for a hotel in D.C.! But I probably won't get to see the sights, even though I love the subways & museums.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee starts on June 2. Wish me luck! I'll try to write an update every day while I'm there.
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