The National Spelling Bee

The National Spelling Bee has concluded, and Katharine Close was the winner. It was extremely suspenseful, and I am coming back next year to compete. I have already started studying! Tomorrow morning I am leaving for Seattle, Washington to compete in the National rhythmic gymnastics meet!

Washington D.C.

I am currently in D.C.! I went to the Smithsonian yesterday and saw the original American Flag! It was very cool. I also went to see the White House today (just the front and back), I toured the Capitol Building with my pen pal (Carolyn, are you reading this?) and I met a lot of spellers and got their autographs. The bee starts tomorrow morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leaving!

I am leaving for Washington, D.C. in two days! Woo-hoo! I hope I spell well. I am going to have a fantasmigoric time. When I am finished spelling, I will go to Seattle and compete in a national rhythmic gymnastics meet! Wheeee! I finished re-reading all the spelling rules from Carolyn's Corner.

Gooooogle

I created my very own Google specialized home on Friday night! It is very cool. It has the weather, all my favorite websites, Sudoku puzzles, the time and date, and a things to do list. I like it. I am going to Washington, D.C. on Saturday for the national spelling bee! Wish me luck! Right now I am studying by drilling on the Consolidated Word List, which is a list of all the words that have ever been used in the spelling bee. I am also doing an etymology workbook. It's very hard to prepare!

Akeelah and the Bee

I watched the movie Akeelah and the Bee last week! It was fantastic. There were some factual errors though, such as that Akeelah would not have had eight months to prepare for the National Spelling Bee. It was still a really good movie though. I advise all the readers of my blog to watch this movie. It gave me some good study ideas.

Woo-hoo!

I made it to Junior Olympics in rhythmic gymnastics! Yesyesyes! I got third place out of all of the age groups put together! I got first place in my age group! It was fun! Yay! Now I'm going to Junior Olympics! And I'm studying spelling on the way back home because I live in Tigard, Oregon and I am in Arlington, Washington.

Random

Today my swim coach announced to my whole swim team that I had won my spelling bee. I was absolutely mortified! (There's a good word for spelling.) I am going to compete in a regional rhythmic gymnastics meet the day after the day after tomorrow. The weekend after that I am going to perform in a ballet performance of Sleeping Beauty. I have a really busy schedule. On top of that I have figured out how to fit in four hours a day of spelling!