Last week, the New Jersey Qualifier made Region X history! It was the first tournament in our region with double octafinals and our first double loss. Thankfully, the debaters didn't get disqualified.
I normally HATE host housing, but our hosts were awesome. They gave us food, were really nice, and the house was beautiful. I really didn't want to share an air mattress with my sister, so I decided to sleep on the Thomas the Tank Engine bed. It was really uncomfortable, so I slept on the floor the last two nights.
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| Photo credit to Johanna Florez |
One of my friends, Caleb, won Thematic! He hadn't broken in that speech at any of the other three tournaments he went to. (: During the awards ceremony, I was sitting with a bunch of people from club, at when we saw he was in top three, we were sitting on the edges of our seats.
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| Photo credit to Steve Min |
What I love about the awards picture is how diverse everyone's reactions are. The shortest one, Nina, is just so happy she got to finals, even though she got seventh. Paul (the Asian guy) and Robert (the tall one with dark hair) look kind of like, "We knew we'd do well." And you know, that's okay. They've been competing for years and they do really well. And Caleb is so shocked and happy because he didn't think he'd break at all. :)
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