Dear Readers,
As I'm sure you know, the Madness of March(I like to be unique in my language) has begun. Basketball, music festivals and tours all take their place among the activities that people enjoy this month.
First off, the NCAA Tournament starts tomorrow and as happens every year, our family has a competition pool with the Tournament brackets. For those who don't know about this challenge, we make "educated" guesses of which teams will win each of the playoff games, eventually coming out with a champion. As my sister so foolishly thinks she will win this year, I proudly throw down the guantlet on her confidence(Despite the fact that our challenge is based on luck...).
As for Musical competition, our Jazz band qualified for state Jazz Festival this year. This will keep up a 20-year streak for Olympus High in Jazz competition. Mr. Bateman has amazingly qualified for state competition 21 years out of the 22 years he's been teaching at Olympus high. Our Vocal competition, unfortunately is not so lucky. Our Vocal Ensemble, even had we been eligible, did not qualify for state. Good luck to all our Soloists and ensemble preformers who compete tomorrow!
Today obviously receives recognition as St. Patrick's Day and I would like to point out the silly tradition of pinching. I avoided it most of the day, simply by telling people to pinch me and find out where my green resided. Most of them took that as me wearing green and they decided not to try anything. It's nice having school colors that involve green, though. There were more people than ever wearing school apparel today due to the green theme.
Next week our choir leaves on tour to california. Everyone shares their excitment each day we get closer and yet it gets more stressful with hard rehearsals that prepare us for Disney and St. Edmond's Cathedral. Wish us Luck!
As I'm sure you know, the Madness of March(I like to be unique in my language) has begun. Basketball, music festivals and tours all take their place among the activities that people enjoy this month.
First off, the NCAA Tournament starts tomorrow and as happens every year, our family has a competition pool with the Tournament brackets. For those who don't know about this challenge, we make "educated" guesses of which teams will win each of the playoff games, eventually coming out with a champion. As my sister so foolishly thinks she will win this year, I proudly throw down the guantlet on her confidence(Despite the fact that our challenge is based on luck...).
As for Musical competition, our Jazz band qualified for state Jazz Festival this year. This will keep up a 20-year streak for Olympus High in Jazz competition. Mr. Bateman has amazingly qualified for state competition 21 years out of the 22 years he's been teaching at Olympus high. Our Vocal competition, unfortunately is not so lucky. Our Vocal Ensemble, even had we been eligible, did not qualify for state. Good luck to all our Soloists and ensemble preformers who compete tomorrow!
Today obviously receives recognition as St. Patrick's Day and I would like to point out the silly tradition of pinching. I avoided it most of the day, simply by telling people to pinch me and find out where my green resided. Most of them took that as me wearing green and they decided not to try anything. It's nice having school colors that involve green, though. There were more people than ever wearing school apparel today due to the green theme.
Next week our choir leaves on tour to california. Everyone shares their excitment each day we get closer and yet it gets more stressful with hard rehearsals that prepare us for Disney and St. Edmond's Cathedral. Wish us Luck!
I never said I would win. Just that I hope to do better this year than last. And I am totally against pinching too. There was no pinching here yesterday.
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