Don't you just hate it when other people think they are better than you and actually say it to your face? Here's the elaboration: in 2002 or 2003, our class and the Genevan parallel class went to Germany (Stuttgart I think) for this international debate. We had to prepare 4 or 5 debates before hand and present them over a period of about 3 or four days. Not the whole class went, just the debating team and we were about 5 and 6 Genevans or something. The first debate was horrendous, so glad I didn't have to do it. We were the proposition for ''There is no such thing as terrorism''. Great, try and defend that after 9/11 or to put it in European terms 11/9. Anyway, we lost nearly ever time. The debates were in English, so we we had an advantage. We were 3 in a team, since we were 5, not everybody participated. The problem was that one girl didn't want to do it. She did the first one and that was it. We were "registered" as TWO schools, but we ended up forming a group with the Genevans. It would have been better if we had been signed up as one school. The other teams had 10 members, so they had plenty of replacements, we didn't. Meaning if someone didn't feel like doing it, it was always the same people debating. That's good though at least you get a lot of practice. The last night we stayed up until about 3 AM preparing our debate. In their finals, two German schools debated on a big theatre stage. Now we're coming to the actual insulting bit. It wasn't an auditorium as such, so the chairs were placed in front of the stage in rows. If you were seated right at the back, you couldn't really see anything. Anyhow, this girl from Geneva turned around to me and asked me whether we could swap seats. That would have been okay if she hadn't added: ''Because I can't see anything.'' What in tarnation??? So she can sit in my seat, so she can see something and I get to see nothing from hers! I hate it when people do that! I swapped (yup I'm squashable and idiotic) and it turned out she could see even less from there! Ha! Serves you right! Don't think I'm going to swap back again!
Later that day we received a certificate for having participated and I expressed my discontentment that they had written Christine rather than Christina on the certificate. Understandable, no? I mean its a different name. It's like saying Lucia instead of Lucinda or Penolopa instead of Penelope. I didn't go complaining and ranting on about it. Then that girl said something along the lines of: ''It's only a letter, what are you complaining about? Who cares?'' What about her??? She flipped out if you called her DIana rather than DEana. That's the same name with a different pronunciation! At least I had something to complain about. Christine is a DIFFERENT flamin' name!!! Even if it's only a one-letter difference!!! Talkin' about bein' nitpickin'! Oh, yeah we came last and the Genevans came second before last. Well participation is everything...