National Spelling Bee

TonyK
Sat, 31 May 2014 00:41:41 +0000

ESPN has become the Eating, Spelling, Poker Network. :-)

The word I spelled wrong many moons ago was lavatory. I had never heard of the word so I tried to fudge it by spelling laboratory. We had finished spelling all of the words on our spelling lists so my step mom was pleased that I had studied hard. I was nervous standing in front of the entire school especially when we got down to the Final Two and tougher new words were being tossed to us. No one remembers who comes in second place.

My son was in our Countywide Spelling Bee for five school districts. He drew Speller Number One position which is the worst position to have. After each category of rounds they started all over with him in the number one slot. I figured he spelled more correct words than one or two finalists. But he was the last boy standing. I was more nervous sitting there watching him spell than I was at any of his sports games. It’s a real discovery moment when you realize your preteen can spell a word you can’t spell.

I didn’t watch this year’s Bee.