Spanish Honor Society

Well, tonight was quite nice because I actually had no homework. It was also the night of the induction ceremony for all the foreign language honor societies. You can get in it if you've taken 3 years of a foreign language and have always maintained an A. So, I went ahead and signed up for Spanish honor society. They don't really require much from you, except at the end of the year before final exams, they want you to tutor a student who needs help.

So, this morning I went to a "rehearsal" for the ceremony at 7:25 a.m. Basically, all they did was put the German, Latin, French, and Spanish honor society members in line alphabetically, and then we just sat there for a minute, and the Spanish teacher who is the leader of the honor society came over to us and had us practice the short poem we had to have memorized for the ceremony. I was like, "I got up at 6 a.m for this?!" lol. We really didn't do anything. lol

So tonight was the actual ceremony. When my parents and I got there, I dropped my maraschino cherries on the refreshment table (we all had to bring it a food item, lol. The cherries were for this Spanish drink called Sangria- the non-alcoholic version, of course) and quickly found these two girls that I know so I would have someone to talk to while we were waiting. We stood around for a little bit, and then they finally started lining us up. Of course, the Spanish people had to be last. lol. Finally we all went into the auditorium and sat down. So the German people were first. I was worried when I saw that they all had to light candles and hold them (I have a pathological fear of flame). I saw how close to each other they had to stand with those burning candles. I made a mental note to myself to remember to push my hair back behind my back, because I certainly didn't want the flame to ignite my hair, which is starting to get long again. We went through the same ritual with the Latin and French people. I noticed that both the German and French people had to repeat a phrase in their language as they were lighting their candle. I figured we weren't doing that though, since no one had told us we would have to do that at the rehearsal that morning. As far as I knew, all we were doing was reciting a poem and saying the oath alltogether. I certainly hoped we didn't have to say anything individually, because I pictured myself being so nervous that I wouldn't be able to make out what our mentor was telling us to say, and having no idea what to say. And not to mention I'd be freaking out over the darned candle at the same time. Well, it came time for the Spanish people to go up, so we all walked up on the stage in alphabetical order. It turned out that there were so many people in the Spanish honor society that thankfully we didn't do the candle thing- it would have taken way too long! The president, vice president, and treasurer lit candles but none of the inductees had to. I was so relieved about that. I was towards the end of the line and there wasn't room for us on the stage, so some of us ended up having to form a second line behind everyone else. Since practically everyone else is about a foot taller than me, it wasn't that easy to see me. This ended up being a good thing, because even though I had memorized the poem and had it down completely, the president of the honor society started reciting the oath and telling us to repeat after her, and I couldn't hear a darn thing she was saying, because I was on the opposite side of the stage. I stumbled over the words quite a bit, but thankfully, I don't think too many people could see me. So, I finally received my award! So yeah, I'm now in the Spanish Honor Society. Whoo. lol. I'm glad the ceremony didn't turn out to be too bad!

Well, I've really gotta get to bed, so that's all for now. Later!