Slant rhymes yippiie
Hey y’all!
Long-time readers of my blog may recall that I joined Forensics (aka 4N6) in 7th grade.
And, as expected, I have joined Forensics again!
However, a few things got in the way of getting the ball rolling.
I had Certamen tryouts, and it was important that I attended to make a team for the Princeton tournament.
(I ended up making the A-Team. Thank you, Ovid :D)
However, I got swept up in Certamen, and soon, we were a few weeks into the Forensics season.
One of my friends kept asking me when I would attend a Forensics practice–and I began to get nervous.
Whenever people tend to do something, despite having prior success in the experience, they tend to get nervous.
Perhaps that’s only me.
But I became nervous, assuming that the head coach of my team would reprimand me for being late to joining the team once more.
I finally decided to enter a single meeting, just to play it out.
And my coach was okay with it.
Pretty surprising, considering the guy’s pretty strict otherwise.
Maybe that’s just because I don’t know him too well.
But anyway, he told me to get my piece chosen as quickly as possible so I could compete.
So, as a Certamen kid, I chose the story of “Lycaon and the Flood” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
It fit almost perfectly in the category of Serious Solo (my preferred place :D) and it’s MYTHOLOGY
The Tale of Lycaon is narrated mainly by Jupiter (Roman mythology), as he tells the other gods about his encounter with a king named Lycaon. Lycaon was a wicked man who doubted the divinity of the literal KING OF THE GODS–
and boiled human flesh, serving it to jupiter to test his divinity.
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YEAH THAT’S FUN–
He ended up getting turned into a wolf for that.
“Foam dripping from his mouth; bloodthirsty still, he turned against the sheep, delighting still in slaughter…”
I love that line!!
As you read this, I will most likely be performing at Oak Creek East Middle School for the first meet of the season!! Wish me luck, and I wish the best for you if you are also in Forensics!!
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now have a representation of how nervous I am
okay BYEEE
-Abby