Alex placed third in the school spelling bee yesterday, after two kids in higher grades! He won't go on to city unless one of them can't make it, but that's alright. He has enough on his plate! Unfortunately, he missed his last word because he had to pee. Yep, that's what he said! Too distracted to focus!
Actually, he caught his mistake. The word wasn't that hard--it was 'enzyme'. He started 'I-N-oops' and asked if he could restart, but the hard-noses refused! I actually don't know if that's standard or not, but, apparently, it is for them. In fact, one of his fellow class spellers placed 8th with the same issue (wanting to correct, but not being allowed to...), so Alex wouldn't necessarily have won if they'd allowed the correction, since others would also have done better. He did say that the 7th and 8th graders both missed their next word, though, so he'd have been up there, probably!
His induction ceremony for Beta club is next week, and he may go plant some trees this weekend for his service hours for beta club. Nice! I don't recall performing service hours for Beta Club (though that's not to say they weren't required!).
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