xanithofdragons

I just finished spending over a week in California yesterday. I was there for the NJCL Convention at UC Davis, but I also did some sightseeing with other students from my school district and some Indiana delegates in San Francisco before the convention. The best part of sightseeing had to have been going to Alcatraz. We had fun on the ferry ride there, and that island is so pretty and has a fantastic view of the city.

The convention itself was also a lot of fun. I got to hang out with people from my school district and also from Ohio as a whole plenty, and got to hang out with the Indiana people, too. In ways, I didn't do as much as last year, but as a whole, I felt like I did a lot more. Next year's convention is in Fargo, North Dakota, and I think it'll be really fun to go, since the delegation's invitation was so cute and made North Dakota seem like a really fun place to visit AND I heard from adults that the last convention held in Fargo was one of the best conventions most of them had been to. Quite a lot happened, but I don't feel entirely up to typing it up, and I'm not sure anyone really wants to read about it, so I'll end with that.

Yesterday I looked at the website for the remake of Persona for the PSP, and now I want a PSP badly. Tomorrow, I'll probably look around in local game stores for used PSPs and might even buy one if I find a nice price. So I'll have a PSP but not any PSP games! Lol, I'll probably try to get Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology while I have a PSP anyway, and look up other PSP games online or something.

It's actually slightly less than a week (:<), but that's not important. What is important is that I'm leaving to go to NJCL convention tomorrow morning, and I won't be returning until late morning or early afternoon on Saturday. Just in case, in the unlikely event that anyone was planning to try to contact me next week, don't... or at least don't expect me to be able to respond right away.

Since I assume that few people actually know what NJCL stands for, and since I don't want to leave anyone who's actually bothering to read this completely confused, NJCL stands for National Junior Classical League. And by classical, I mean Greece and Rome, so most members are Latin students. The convention is a time when JCLers come together to hang out, compete, and be spirited about the classics!

Anyway, I have the photography project I signed up for pretty much taken care of, so I can stop worrying and actually look forward to it. I've never entered a graphics arts contest at a JCL convention before, so I don't know what to think. (Although I did hang out with people while they were registering their graphics arts projects last year.) As usual, I'll be doing a bunch of academic contests. I'll also be doing Latin sight reading poetry. I probably should've practiced reading poetry, but whatever, it's not like there isn't still time to do so.

Only 4 people are going from my school, and since the other 3 are male, I was not able to designate a roommate. Thus, like last year, I will probably be roomed with some other girl from Ohio. Perhaps, unlike last year, I will actually talk to her...

It should be fun to be a delegate from the host state. Our teacher told us to be there by noon on Sunday, which is fairly early. I can only assume that she wants us there so early to help out, since that's what delegates from the host state are supposed to do.

Anyway, it should be fun to hang out with some fellow Latin students from school, as well as Latin students from the other high school in our district, and that Tennessee delegate the Ohio delegation adopted last year. I might make some new friends, and I might not. Either way, it should be a great week.

If I'm in the mood soon after I return, I might make some sort of post in review.

See ya!