Speech/Debate Tournament #2

Things I learned at last weekends competition:

• Never listen to Dave's directions, he sends you directly into the traffic.
• Make sure that Jason has a working cd payer in his vehicle or else he gets grumpy.
• If you are going to join Jason in stealing the girls keys and towels, be prepared to sleep with one eye open.
• Break in all new pairs of shoes before wearing them to a tournament where you have to run around all day.
• If you have to wear new, unbroken-in shoes bring sandals, bandaids and neosporen with you.
• Do not engage into a debate with random-crazy-mis-quoting-the-Bible-hotel-patrons-from-the-inner-city (even if there are five of you ready to throw down; Jason, Dave, Hannah, Shawn, and me).
• Don't eat too much food when your body is physically reacting to being nervious even when you are not mentally feeling it (ie. waking up early with an upset stomach that doesn't go away until the entire competition is over).
• Don't forget to look at the judge who is giving you your time signals.
• Don't eat really greasy fish and chips dinners right before the awards ceremony from an English Pub when all you've had to eat that day is a banana and orange juice at 7-something-a.m.

* and for those of you who are still wondering what happened with my possible oops? Nothing. Apparently I have a flare for expecting the dramatic. All is well in love and war.