Hello, all. G-star here. Back from the BOB competition with a guilty conscience and an annoying tune stuck in my head.
Before I begin, you should know two things: despite my energetic and smiley personality (which you can't tell on here, because, really, how do you make typing energetic?), I'm a horrible pessimist. I come up with the worst possible consequence for every action.
Secondly, I'm ridiculously competitive. I have to win everything. 24/7. It's terrible.
We practiced in the car the whole way there, and we did pretty well, so I was confident. When we got there, I borrowed a pen (in the process nearly forgetting who lent it to me), sat and listened to an hour-long assembly about the rules we had read on the way there, and went off to our first battle. It went decently; we were evenly matched and every now and then caught a question the other team answered incorrectly, but were beaten both times. After that was the tournament, before which two teams from the preliminary rounds are eliminated. When they finally put up the tournament schedule, I went into shock. Why? WE WERE LAST OF THE 16 TEAMS TO MAKE IT AND THEY HAD PUT US UP AGAINST #1. THIS IS CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT!!!! Those jerks.......they should at least give us a CHANCE.
We tried to keep our hopes up by saying to each other that they probably just had such a high score because the other team sucked and they picked up a bunch of questions, but as to be expected, we lost. Badly. Well, we did pretty well in the first round (In Which Book), but lost a bunch of questions in the second. I was pouting the entire time, and I think one of the girls, our alternate, got ticked off at me...
I didn't respond well to any of this because of my competitiveness, and I was a little depressed afterward. (Well, you'd be, too, if you'd spent six months reading and practicing just to get out in your second match.) Fortunately, my family went out and (finally) saw the Lego Movie in a local theater. It was a really tiny theater; only two movie rooms, and people only started showing up when the movie was about to start. Speaking of which, the theater itself only opened 15 minutes before the actual movie started. ^_^' There were a ton of commercials, but one of them had Kurt Hugo Schneider, one of my favorite Youtubers, in it; he had posted the ad on his channel a while ago, and it involves him making music by tapping on empty Coke bottles. It's really cool.
Now to the actual movie...it was actually really good. I was happy that the '80s spaceman (Benny) wasn't just a minor character. Those astronauts are the only Lego characters my brother and I ever actually played with. They would have adventures on distant planets, use jetpacks, ride space-scooters, and battle aliens. Ah, fond memories...
We were both cheering Benny on the whole time. SPACESHIP!!!! SPACESHIP SPACESHIP SPACESHIP!!!
The only thing was it didn't really seem to have a moral. At first it seemed to encourage being special, then working as a team, then...family? In other words, learning-wise, it was pointless.
Afterwards, we were all starving, so I convinced my family to go to this oddly named grill...that had a soda fountain. (There was a billboard up, and that sentence was what caught my eye.) After a lot of complaining from my brother (who wanted pizza) and some doubtful comments from my parents (who thought it seemed suspicious, for some reason), we ended up there. I had a patty melt with this amazing BBQ sauce...ohmygosh....it was so GOOD.
Then I had a Wod Fam Choc Sod (or what passed for one; that was an Adventures in Oddyssey reference, by the way) and my brother, finally satisfied, had a crudload of birthday cake ice cream....that tasted exactly like yellow cake. It was weird.
Anyway, then we went home, and I have to stop typing now. Out of computer time. Until whatever next time I post, this is G-star, signing off.
Before I begin, you should know two things: despite my energetic and smiley personality (which you can't tell on here, because, really, how do you make typing energetic?), I'm a horrible pessimist. I come up with the worst possible consequence for every action.
Secondly, I'm ridiculously competitive. I have to win everything. 24/7. It's terrible.
We practiced in the car the whole way there, and we did pretty well, so I was confident. When we got there, I borrowed a pen (in the process nearly forgetting who lent it to me), sat and listened to an hour-long assembly about the rules we had read on the way there, and went off to our first battle. It went decently; we were evenly matched and every now and then caught a question the other team answered incorrectly, but were beaten both times. After that was the tournament, before which two teams from the preliminary rounds are eliminated. When they finally put up the tournament schedule, I went into shock. Why? WE WERE LAST OF THE 16 TEAMS TO MAKE IT AND THEY HAD PUT US UP AGAINST #1. THIS IS CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT!!!! Those jerks.......they should at least give us a CHANCE.
We tried to keep our hopes up by saying to each other that they probably just had such a high score because the other team sucked and they picked up a bunch of questions, but as to be expected, we lost. Badly. Well, we did pretty well in the first round (In Which Book), but lost a bunch of questions in the second. I was pouting the entire time, and I think one of the girls, our alternate, got ticked off at me...
I didn't respond well to any of this because of my competitiveness, and I was a little depressed afterward. (Well, you'd be, too, if you'd spent six months reading and practicing just to get out in your second match.) Fortunately, my family went out and (finally) saw the Lego Movie in a local theater. It was a really tiny theater; only two movie rooms, and people only started showing up when the movie was about to start. Speaking of which, the theater itself only opened 15 minutes before the actual movie started. ^_^' There were a ton of commercials, but one of them had Kurt Hugo Schneider, one of my favorite Youtubers, in it; he had posted the ad on his channel a while ago, and it involves him making music by tapping on empty Coke bottles. It's really cool.
Now to the actual movie...it was actually really good. I was happy that the '80s spaceman (Benny) wasn't just a minor character. Those astronauts are the only Lego characters my brother and I ever actually played with. They would have adventures on distant planets, use jetpacks, ride space-scooters, and battle aliens. Ah, fond memories...
We were both cheering Benny on the whole time. SPACESHIP!!!! SPACESHIP SPACESHIP SPACESHIP!!!
The only thing was it didn't really seem to have a moral. At first it seemed to encourage being special, then working as a team, then...family? In other words, learning-wise, it was pointless.
Afterwards, we were all starving, so I convinced my family to go to this oddly named grill...that had a soda fountain. (There was a billboard up, and that sentence was what caught my eye.) After a lot of complaining from my brother (who wanted pizza) and some doubtful comments from my parents (who thought it seemed suspicious, for some reason), we ended up there. I had a patty melt with this amazing BBQ sauce...ohmygosh....it was so GOOD.
Then I had a Wod Fam Choc Sod (or what passed for one; that was an Adventures in Oddyssey reference, by the way) and my brother, finally satisfied, had a crudload of birthday cake ice cream....that tasted exactly like yellow cake. It was weird.
Anyway, then we went home, and I have to stop typing now. Out of computer time. Until whatever next time I post, this is G-star, signing off.
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