today we dig into past to talk about my time on history team in high school. the year was 2009. am in history class and teacher, who i liked and runs history team, says to class he lost a lot of members from team year before and if anybody want to be on team just come to his room after school next day when first 'practice' is. one of my friends say in class that he would be there, so it made me think 'hm, i have never done anything after school and this is last year maybe i should go too'. so i make plan to stay after next day. day come by and ask friend if he will be there 'no'. wanted to kermit. i was going to be there with people did not know who most likely smell. but could not back out.
go to practice and see the squad, they are ok people all younger than me. use context clues to find most people also on first year in team. i was right about the smell. teacher comes in and says 'am very glad to see you' to me. well did not want to be there without friend but i want to make most of situation and try my best. i was very scared everybody would be much smarter than me. practice starts and 6 of us get into teams of 3. there was only 1 person on team this year who was on team year before. me the senior, 2 juniors (including 1 member on team year before who i will call 'j'), 1 sophmore (only on team bc gf wanted to be on team), 2 9th grade kids (guys gf and boy i knew). after first 3 questions 'j' was a perfect 3 for 3. nobody else even tried. 4th question 'name of water that acts as border between texas & oklahoma' j doesn't know. i buzz in. 'red river' ding ding ding. teacher laughs and says 'how could anybody know this'. think to myself 'thank you cfb'.
practice continues and j knows many answers, and i know a good amount while others mostly sit there regretting joining team. practices come and go as it is becomeing clear this is a 2 man team. another person walks into next practice and wants to join team. i know this person since kindergarten. not a great friend but solid person we know each other a decent amount, he is also senior call him 'r'. teacher lets him join and he is a strong 3rd member who is good in subjects that i am not.
next practice only 6 of us show ( r is missing). teacher says 'today we vote for captan'! did not know these teams had captans, give us each paper and we write name of who to be captan. i wanted to be cap' but knew i was only second best member. vote for j. first vote is for me. 😲. j says 'i voted for you because you deserved at least 1 vote and i did not want to win 6-0' oh...😡. second and third votes for j and i think 'yeah i guess thats the only 1 i'll get, am glad he voted for me though' fourth vote for me 'wow'. j looks shocked he wasnt only 1 to vote for me. i am also shocked tbqhwyf. 5th vote j. 6th vote me. tied with a member absent. what do. teacher says revote. i want to be captan but will not vote for myself. results come back. 3-3. j vote for himself but young boy i knew flipped to me. thank you boy, will all ways remember that. out of nowhere r walks in. 'break tie' says teacher. r votes for yours truly and i am captan. 😎. j is probably mad but he did not show it. good sportsmanship by j who congratulate me. really he deserved it because he had been on team for 3 years and was smartest member. so i make deal, i will get title of captan and benefits/responsibiltys that come with it, but i told j he could be the history team rep when captans of all teams match up at end of meets with other schools. he happyly accept.
join us tomorow when i go in depth about each of the meets and other things that might clear up questions you have about todays blog like captans benefits and such. thank you for reading people, please let me know if you enjoy. have nice day and stay safe people
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