NFB Youth Slam!

Tuesday morning arrived all too quick for most of us. But we were excited to rise and get the day started with breakfast, which was exciting, as were all the meals. We spent it mostly wandering around, talking with people we knew, meeting some we didn’t.
Afterword, it was time to break into our tracks. In the morning we played catch up and got our assignments for the afternoon. The blogging boys were to interview three different people separately for three different projects, while we girls were to stick together and interview three different people for the same project. That would prove to be an interesting story.
Lunchtime eventually came, and most of us were, if not completely done, then almost completely done with the previous day’s assignments. Nothing eventful happened that day at lunch–just had lots of laughs and lots of fun mingling.
After lunch we spent some time thinking about whom we were going to interview. Olaedo and I had phone numbers for our people, so we decided to interview Kayla’s person, Willy Black, first, because we could just go with him to his track, (Robots), and pull him quietly to the side.
As we walked, I noticed that the group kept splitting in two: those who walked super fast and those who didn’t. I mostly walked by myself between the two, though I was sometimes with one group and then with the other.
At one point I was walking with the fast walkers. We got to a point in the path where they needed someone to marshal the people behind. As the lovely people my friends were, everyone volunteered me for the job. So I stood to one side and became surprisingly loud. In the end, I was an extra. The team forgot to call me off when they had passed, and some nice girls stopped and asked me who I was yelling at. It was funny and not embarrassing because at first I thought they were part of our group. But as they walked with me further and further, I realized they were from a different group all together.
I finally found the slower-paced half of the group and walked with them the rest of the way. In this, I discovered that the person we were looking for, Willy Black, was the mentor/leader of the group.
It took us a while to get there. We made several wrong turns and had many people looking for us. I had to make sure I wasn’t forgotten because I wasn’t a part of the track we were walking with. But we eventually made it, Kayla got her interviews, and Willy got to take a break.
Our next interview was with Marc Schmidt. I had already contacted him, and we had agreed to meet at his track building. He was in the Go Green Track, so we thought it wouldn’t be too bad getting there. We somehow forgot to plan out exactly how we would get there without the help of a marshal, since before we had been following a group.
After we realized this, we began calling anyone we could think of. Starting with Ronza, our head blogger, we called four different people, three of whom did not answer. Finally, we were able to put in a request for a marshal. Just when we were beginning to relax, Marc Schmidt called and told us his location had changed. And, to top it all off, we found out no one was answering because we had a water problem.
Eventually a marshal came, we got the remaining two interviews, and we met our deadline of reporting back to Slam News headquarters at 5:30.
Dinner and sports were next. Dinner was uneventful. However, the fool I made of myself in Sports was all too noticeable.
That night my team and I got to know our suite mates, three girls on the Chat Bots team. I must admit that we had a lot of fun. But when it was time for bed, we all crashed, anticipating the next day.

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