Week O Fun 3rd Edition: Wednesday

Wednesday was the baccalaureate Mass.  Julia won a few academic awards but she was most proud of top grade in Government class.  The running joke (at least in government class) is that it is actually harder than Advanced Government (which would not fit into Julia's schedule).  She put it in a frame for her party and added "advanced" on a sticky.  Only Maddie, who won the real Advanced Government top grade protested.  Julia graduated Cum Laude and had a NHS medal as well.

Here they all are.  They took the picture before the parents got out of Mass so I stole this off of Facebook and Julia with her eyes closed was the only option.

Side note:  There are 42 of them and 22 are 2nd generation!  They did not count 3rd generation but I know there are some of those too.

Again with her eyes closed with Steve and Raleen.  Oops.

And of course, we got Tator Tot bake for lunch afterwards.  Always a hit in my book.

That night was the Fine Arts Awards banquet.  Julia cleaned up there.  The dad sitting next to me was making fun of me for how many pictures I had to take and about 3/4 of the way through I got tired of standing up to take them so I just stayed sitting!

The weird little stand up people are smaller...and more proportional so they are less creepy than in years past.  But I'm still hoping to get them out of my house quickly.  Julia got two, a choir and a band.

Here's her stack of awards.  She won a big one in all four arts.

Speech: Cavalier Award 

Drama:  Shining Star Award

Choir:  Raymond Miller Choral Award

Band: John Philips Sousa Award

They are all for being an especially great senior.  Basically.

There's also various smaller awards in there from one act, district music and various speech things.  She lettered in all the things too.

She's very proud to have gotten the "Librarian" award for speech too.  She and Ben both got it for spending 76 hours in the library during speech practices.  It's a bookworm she named Christopher after the coach.  We have a picture but for some reason it won't cooperate.

Philip also got two band awards.

The Habanero group receive Outstanding Performance at District Music Contest (which gets Philip on the Music Wall of Fame).

He lettered in band and he got Outstanding Sophomore along with Aliza (not the cousin)! 

And of course, Julia with Jade, Maya and Trinity.

Great job in Fine Arts Julia- it really was your niche at Neumann.  And good job to Philip too!

Fine Arts Banquet

Covid did not kill the food part of the Fine Arts banquet!  We still get to eat...and at my table, drink.  My friend Karen doesn't always follow the rules...well, this was more of a ask forgiveness (if you get caught) not permission situation and we didn't get caught.  :)

Julia lettered in Speech,

Drama,

Choir

and band.

She also got the "super special you're the best in your grade band kid award" for the third year running.  It has a real name but I don't remember it.

Philip also got a certificate of participation in band (it generally takes two years to letter)...where did his picture go?  Not sure. And since google thinks I should upload ALL the pictures on my phone in order to have them in google pics to put on my blog, which then fills my free google drive and tells me I need to buy more storage, which I will not be doing- finding and adding that picture is a process.  Just imagine the picture with Julia and Mr. Kellett above  with Philip's back in it instead. 

Performances

Julia had a great time in speech this year.  She preformed a serious prose and an OID (oral interpretation of drama.)  She likes the dark stuff.  I went a couple times and it was good, but I didn't really want to see either speeches over and over.  Sorry Julia but great work! 

Philip performed in a brass ensemble for district music contest.  They got a 1!

Julia performed a flute solo that got a 1 (She played a song I played once upon a time- Tambourin), the flute section performed a piece that received a 1 as well.  Julia and her long time flutie friend Isabelle performed a duet that got a 1 and a honorable mention.  That means they get a picture on Neumann's Fine Arts Wall of fame.  Nice job girls!

Julia sang too!  A duet that got a 2 and a quartet that got a "stupid, stinkin' 3".  She's spoiled with all the 1s she's gotten in her life.  My band once got a 4, she'll survive.  I did in fact take pictures at the recital night but I took them with the little button while I was video taping and now the computer thinks they are all movies so use your imagination!!

The new football coach had his meet and greet during the recital.  (Brother of my least favorite coach to date- and I've experienced 6 football coaches over eight years.  I'm trying not to hold it against the new Pavlik.) We found out via Facebook by chance the day before.  The recital had been planned for weeks and I was told about it directly.  We skipped the meet and greet.  Well, Philip went over after his performance.  And then Philip lost the papers that told us about summer schedules and expectations that he got there.  Ug.

 

Speech Season

 Julia did speech again this year and liked it a lot better.  (She tried it her sophomore year and ended up quitting part way through the season.) They have a new coach who has lots of experience coaching speech which helped but most of all she had friends doing it too.  She did a solo serious prose about Nora who had run away from an abusive dad with her sister but then her sister got stung by a bee and died.  She also did Oral Interpretation of Drama which is a group that puts on about 15 minutes of a play.  It was about a family whose kind of estranged son died in a car accident and his heart was donated to a girl who was struggling to want to live...  Julia likes dark themes!  I was feeling guilty that I hadn't been able to see her perform but then I went...and decided once or twice is enough.  Watching dark, depressing serious prose and OIDs over and over is not for me!  I did go with her to watch a couple of the more humorous ones which helped lighten things up.

She did very well for her first full year of speech and enjoyed it a lot!