I’ve never seen my English teacher so excited…

14 students at my school are being published in a book of essays. We got a letter last week announcing that I was in the top ten in the nation… thus I won something and I’m being published in the front of the book instead of with my classmates. A couple days later we got the results for an extremely hard practice competition, in which our small school competes against the top 49 schools in Texas (and numerous others, but bleh…). My friend got 1st and I got 3rd. We didn’t receive my paper back, so we didn’t know just how well I did. My teacher went on and on about how we would both go on to win state at the actual competition… So anyways, she just called me a couple minutes ago and was like “Lydia, you scored three points lower then Helena!” She was so happy and went on and on about everything good the lady said about us… I’ve got to make it to state in that competition now. My teacher rarely calls me at home. XD

The only problem with the competition is it gives you two hours to write a 1000+ word essay over one of two quotes they give you at the beginning of the competition with no resources. Writing my opinion is easy, but remembering examples to prove your point can sometimes be hard. My English teacher’s room is full of quotes to use (I only used one this time, so I’m getting better ), and the college essays have helped improved my database of examples. I dunno, I guess I’m kind of nervous about letting her down. She’s normally complaining about something and for her to be so excited over something that depends on me is ugh… I made it to state in Feature Writing last year… I can do it for Ready Writing too as long as I don’t choke. I’m going to be disappointed if I don’t go to state in both. :S Bleh. I just need to remember to not get over cocky and slack, right?