Day #5

Prelim night #1 has come and gone and I'm exhausted, yet so thankful I got to sleep in this morning. 

As each day passes, the girls bond even more and we're able to take goofy pictures of one another with out it being bizarre. I uploaded my camera last night with nearly 100 photos of all of us, these being my favorites from the batch. 

I'm really enjoying myself a lot more than I expected to. Yes, the days are long and grueling. You don't get breaks, you can't complain and you have to dancedancedance the night away (not the fun dancing either...)

Yet, the relationships you make with the other girls are what makes this whole ordeal worthwhile. You become friends with them, become excited for them when they do well, gossip with them in your hotel rooms at 1 in the morning (a group of us did it last night...)

After prelims last night (where Megan Lyne and Brittany Henry both took home the top prizes, best evening gown and best talent) we were able to escape to something called a "Visitation". 

Here, we're able to reconnect with our family and friends for a short time, LEGALLY. It's nice to be able to see them all at the end of such an exhausting day. 

Oh and by the way, I totally crashed and burned on my on stage question. It went as follows:

Melissa Chaty: How do you feel we can put an end to gang warfare?

Me: (Thinking she said GAY warfare) Can you repeat the question?

Melissa Chaty: Absolutely, how do you feel we can put an end to gang warfare?

Me: Well, I believe....(pause) Can you repeat the question again?

Melissa Chaty: How do you feel we can put an end to gang warfare?

Me: Well, I believe in peace and I believe that schools should try to teach more about non-aggressive problem solving because peace is the way to go and I think schools should try and teach more about non-violent problem solving. 

GAHHHHHHHHH. I had no idea how to answer the question. Every other girls got questions about Twitter or global warming or some other subjects that I would've LOVED to answer a question about. Thank GOD it's only worth 5% of your total score, otherwise I probably would've walked off crying.

Afterwards, everyone kept coming up to me and telling me that I got the hardest question and that they would've had no idea how to answer it either. Another girl told me that she thought they said GAY warfare as well, so at least I wasn't alone in that one.

At least I know I wasn't the WORST onstage question of the night. At least I answered the question (eventually) and gave more than a one word answer. 

But still, I'm feeling slightly discouraged about how difficult my stupid question was.