BYU Language Fair

This year I took my students to compete in the BYU Language Fair. What's that, you may be asking yourself. A headache, that's what. Haha, no it turned out to be a really good experience both for me and especially for my students. They weren't very excited about it to begin with but after going they said they really enjoyed it.

The Language Fair is a chance for students learning another language to compete against each other in skits, speeches, show & tell, funny stories, and trivia questions. We competed against 13 other high schools, even including 5A (we are only 2A). And check this out..... We took 3rd place! I was SO proud! I was literally shocked. We had spent tons of time in class preparing for the fair, but my students weren't doing what they were supposed to be doing and not showing up when they were supposed to to practice the skit. In fact I changed the lines of both skits the day before our competition, April 15, because it was way too long. They actually pulled off the skits very well and most of them had actually memorized their lines! They sure hadn't the day before! I just didn't expect them to be prepared. But in fact they were. I learned not to underestimate anyone in their capabilities. In fact, I got some compliments from the scoregivers saying how good my students did and they were the best speeched they had heard all day!

My Spanish 2 level even won the Language Bowl!! Champs! There is a language bowl for each lever (2, 3, 4, and native speakers) and they took first! It is a round of trivia questions that are asked, played against another school in bracket format. Again, I was estatic.

I ended up taking 84 Spanish students, on my own not to mention. It actually turned out quite well despite the tipped ration. Oh, and this was our first year to participate as well. Congratulations to my students!!