Olympics!!

In honor of this past Friday's festivites, I felt it necessary to write about the winter Olympics. But before I begin to describe Friday evening, let me set the stage for what my friday was. Before our class, I had 8am multi-variable calculus, not a pleasant way to begin the day when the class is accompanied by a quiz. Then off to English, a break in the day of math and science, where we all listened to presentations, until 9:50am, and that is when I began to sutdy for my physics test. All day I study so hard for that test and was completely drained and bored out of my mind when I got back from the test at 7:30. It was after I had put down my book bag that I realized that this was not just any ordinary Friday; no, tonight would mark the begining of the 2010 winter Olympics! My day of hard work and boring physics problems was instantly evened by the excitment I had for the start of the Olympics. I am a huge fan of all the winter sports and in aw each time I watch an event. I of course had known that tonight was the night the excitement would begin, but in the blur of math and physics, I had completely forgotten.

The opening ceremony was well done, but the best part about the ceremony was watching it in the company of my friends, and creating a geography lesson out of the annouciation of the countries. I personally learned of several countries I had no prior knowledge of, and on top of that, learned a rough idea of there locations. Finally, USA came out, last but not least. It is amazing how manymore people we bring to the olympics compared to all the other counties.

As the USA came out I was also brought to a memory of the last time I saw the USA come out for the winter olympics. I have been a girl scout since daisy's and in 5th grade I was a junior, and for Valentines day there was a girl scout father daughter sweet heart dance. My friends and I were pleasantly surprised that night to find that our dads (or parents in general) had gotten a limo to take us to the dance. The dance itself was not all that great; it was disco themed and all of the dads in our group were rather miserable because that was not there thing at all. So, we left early and took advantage of the limo and drove around. There was a small tv in the limo so, naturally, we turned on the opening ceremony that was happening that night. The next thing I know, we're