In one word, how do you feel right now?

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Disappointed

Lonely

Why Disappointed?

Anxious.

Feeling Ashamed

Excited! We get out on fall break at 12:15 today and I leave for my National competition next week!!

Worried. Because we're class got cancelled because theres a hurricane heading our way.

Competition---in what, pray tell?

hopeful

The National FFA Organization. A school based agricultural club, its the largest youth organization in the country. You compete out of your high school (or middle school for the juniors) in multiple ranges of team and individual competitions. I compete on a team, and we won the State competition earlier this year so we're flying out to the National Convention to compete against all the top teams in the country. Im super excited (and a little nervous).

Good for you ^ gracekjsp

If you don't mind me asking: what are you competing in?

Hi Grace!!
Wow, that's exciting! You have your A Game, I'm sure!
Good luck!

curious

Ok this is gonna sound weird to non-FFA people.
Horse Evaluation.
Um, its like pretending to be the judge of a horse show? We watch several classes of riding and in hand and place the horses in order of best to worst. Than we have to do a short speech called "oral reasons" where we explain why we placed them that way to test our knowledge. (A lot of people struggle on oral reasons) We also have an individual quiz (color, breeds, tack, etc) a team test (very hard) and a team presentation (a 5 minute oral presentation on a scenario like a horse in your barn getting a certain disease).
Its really subjective because you're trying to match the placings of the official judge who might like a certain horse more than you. You only have 10 minutes to prepare your entire team presentation so thats very challenging as well.

I dont expect to win as a team because there are a couple states that like always win (Like Oklahoma- one of the top horse states in the country). However, I competed in Extemporaneous Public Speaking as well so Im really hoping I place in the top five individuals for oral reasons since they are a lot like extemp.