Catching up

I realized today that I never posted last week. Once again, I'm not sure if I can make it up by doing double, but I will do it anyways.

In orchestra and Davis Youth Symphony I feel like I need to practice more, but have made some improvements. When I first started DYS I looked at the music and thought: this is going to be so hard... Now, I almost play through all the songs completely without stopping or messing up too badly. For the school orchestra, I have a concert on the 15th at Davis High. The songs aren't too hard and it should go well.

In Seminary, I just started this list of 101 services I can do over the holidays to earn a pin. I plan on doing it, but I think it will definitely be a challenge to complete all of them. I did 1 of them in class today, so 100 left to do.

The unit of math that we are doing right now looks pretty complex, but it's the only one so far that I feel like I've understood and followed along with perfectly from the beginning (ignoring the reviews that we did at the beginning of the year). It's complex fractions and involves solving fractions within fractions. It seems, this year, that I'm using everything I've ever learned in math.

Manufacturing seems to be getting faster each day. I feel like I'm getting less and less done each day. I'm building a headboard of my own design and it's quite a long process. Making each separate piece alone takes up about half my working time each day. I'm starting to worry about finishing it before the term is over.

I almost forgot about Science Olympiad. I made the varsity team, although the two teams aren't going to be called "varsity" and "junior varsity". On the test that we took to try out for the team, the scores were very close and the people who made the varsity team only did a little bit better than the one's who didn't. So now, varsity will now be called the "Blue team" and the junior varsity will be called the "White team". Both teams will compete at District and Regional, but at the State competition our coach is still unsure whether or not if the white team will be able to earn medals along with the blue team. Also, our head coach says that if the white team does better than the blue team then they will be the ones who go to nationals and not us. I think that this will maybe turn the two teams against each other because they both want to go to Florida (which is where the National tournament will be held). In my opinion though, I think the blue team will do better and go to nationals but you can't be completely sure. We'll see.