Thursday, February 03, 2005

Science Olympiad Team Picking

Ok. I haven't posted for a while because of two things...or rather the combination of two things: homework and procrastination.

I am writing this post in part because I would appreciate it if whoever read this prayed for my Science Olympiad team. I hope you will understand by the end.

Anyways, I'll give some background information to accompany the situation. My middle school that i went to the last three years of my life (I don't go there now, I'm in high school currently) does this thing called Science Olympiad. Each year, starting last year, five ninth graders are able to be "pulled back" onto the team, because some of the teams in Science Olympiad have ninth graders in their middle schools. I am one of those ninth graders.

This past Tuesday was teh school-wide competition, where the people who want to be on the team compete for the eighteen slots. On Tuesday, one of the ninth graders decided to quit Science Olympiad after finishing the competition. She did, but then everyone she talked to about it convinced her that she was needed on the team. So she rejoined on Wednesday.

There was some confusion and mix-up involved. Also, the scoring sheet for each event in Science Olympiad, was, in my opinion, messed up and not organized correctly. Two people were supposed to determine the team, although in years past it took an entire team of coaches and one head person to determine the teams.

These two people decided not to put the ninth grader that "quit" on the team. This caused half of the selected team to become extremely angry at these two people. It seems that everyone disagrees with their choices completely and hates it.

Things are in an uproar. The people who chose the teams refuse to listen and change their minds. If they don't, I'm afraid half the current team will quit (including me likely) and there will not be a horrible team left to represent the school. Along with that would probably come continued hate and grudges.

Please, please pray for this! I really don't know what to think. I can't understand it. It's crazy! I'm crying more about this than I have for like anything else I can remember! AHHHHH!!!

God will work this out. I don't know how or when. But He will. I know it. God is good all the time, and all the time, God is good.

†God Bless†
Bria