Double Bri And The Bee
Posted on | February 2, 2008 | 5 Comments
Carol, Jesus, and I have been spending the last two months trying to get Brian ready for the spelling bee. I tried to get him to study Akeelah And The Bee, but could only get a, “Dad, I didn’t really like that movie that much,” out of him. He wasn’t great in practice and at times was barely 50/50 on the harder words. But come game day, he did very well. There were about 6 schools participating (private schools in Los Gatos, San Mateo, and even further north past San Francisco) and 23 kids in all. I tried to keep him very loose by goofing off with him, trying to make him forget how nervous he was. I think it helped that he drew the last number and didn’t have to spell a word until the very end of each round.
He started out the practice round by getting “crispness” right. He moved on to “eager”, “beard”, “balloons”, and “luggage”, which were pretty much gimmes. Then, in the next round, he had to spell a word that he’s been hearing all his life. Whenever we play around, he eventually has to eat a bionic elbow from me. So it was fairly easy for him to spell “bionic” as his next word. Now here’s where it became tricky. His next word was “envelop”. The spelling bee woman said it correctly the first time, but when she repeated it back to him, she pronounced it, “in-velop”. Brian spelled it like she said it, but then added an “e” at the end. So he would’ve gotten it wrong anyway. But, she didn’t do him any favors by massacring the pronunciation of the word.
Since we only were allowed to take pictures and video of the practice round, I only have his first word. And he did it with the crispness.
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February 2nd, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
I lost the 6th grade bee on the word “lariat”, good job Bri!
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February 4th, 2008 @ 1:54 am
Tailgate was the word that sunk me in third grade. What do third graders know about tailgaiting? Good job, Brian!
February 4th, 2008 @ 9:35 am
In 7th grade I lost on a gimme: delectable. It was in the Nationals in Washington, no less. I bet Bri would’ve gotten that blindfolded.
February 4th, 2008 @ 9:47 am
Great job Brian! Can’t wait to see you on Sportscenter.
February 4th, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
Bri should of asked for the origin of ‘envelop’.