Super Gold Medal!

While shopping yesterday afternoon Daddy's cellphone rang and he hurriedly ushered me outside to take the call...

It was from one of our students on the team that competed at last weekend's National English Competition (see previous Blog entry for details.) She called to say that her mother had just accessed the results on the web for our entry and we had been awarded the "SUPER GOLD MEDAL." This is the top prize awarded and nationally, of all the kids competing, only the top 1% receive this distinction. Apparently, gold medals are awarded to several students/teams...but here in our city...we were awarded the "Super" Gold Medal which meant that the panel of 4 judges awarded us the top scores of the day!

I was just amazed! I thought perhaps since our entry was so different than others we saw, that we might do well or on the other hand, not place at all.

And, since competition here is heralded by EVERYONE, this is good PR for our new school and the school's English program!