mock trial [19.2.05] city-county building
i wake up at 5:45 to music (my alarm). for about 10 minutes i'm trying to figure out why music is playing, then i remember i have mock trial today. so i wake up, take a shower, sew some stuff on my outfit, do my hair and makeup. i eat a quick bagel and then we're off.
me and my mom pick up erin around 7:45. we get downtown and end up driving around in a huge block because they blocked off the center of the city. (which we later found out was because they were lowering a water cooler on top of one of the buildings with a helicopter. which we see happening when we go to lunch.) we get there at 8:00, before any of our other team. so HA! we go through the metal detecters, mine beeps. so i get strip searched. lmao juust kidding.
we find out we have to be defense, which is when i'm a lawyer. and basicly we're screwed because this is our weakest side. we're playing a team from another school. (note: there are 16 teams there and we have 8 teams from roncalli.) we did alright, but pretty much everyone is clueless on objections. but of course i'm the only one that gets yelled at. whatever. we lost, but probably not that bad. when they were telling us what all we did good and bad, they said something out loud that i did good. it made me happy. of course they didn't say my name, but they said what i was crossing the witness on and what i did good on. (i let the witness answer the question how they wanted to, but kept going back to the question until they answered it how i wanted them to.) i thought i did good besides for the objections, which i did crap on.
at the end, we asked the team what school they are from. they wouldn't tell us and they said it caused problems in the past. i don't get what the big deal is. later we find out they go to penn. i still don't understand what the big deal was.
we're done by 10:30, so now we get to go to lunch. we decide to go to circle center. we get there and the sophmore boys team was there and julius and krista's team too. they played eachother. we ate (i got japanese. yum) and then walked around the mall. we found a candy store and got candy necklaces, and me and erin the big pixie sticks. then we go to the lovesack store and krista's team is in there taping something for channel 1 and we got to be in the background for it. haha i don't know if you can see us in there though.
then we walk back and we still have about an hour left. later we find out what courtroom and what side we're on. we have defense again. crap. but we're against the sophmore boys team. they aren't that good. we get in there 30 minutes early and talk to the other team. we drew a very manly picture of meredith on the board they had in there. it was funny. and somehow we ended up talking about me smoking pot. how they all knew, i have no clue. probably because i hang out with kyle and erin knows i do.
then we get started, i got the objection right this time, but i wasn't really expecting some of the objections i got to my direct. so i didn't have any answers to them, so i made up some stuff. one got overruled and the other one didn't. but erin kept answering the question, and i got yelled at by the judge to "control my witness." then i didn't have any redirect, and got yelled at by kate. i mean, i didn't have anything to ask erin after the cross. so what am i suppose to do?
ours is over in about 40 minutes, which is really short. we have about 2 hours until our next one. so we hang out with the other team in our courtroom. it was fun. we listened to techno music. haha i <3 techno.
then we find out our next one and what what team we are against. we are against a perry team and we finally have plantiff, so i get to be a witness. by this time it's 4:00. and we got started. i seriously wanted to kill the other team. they were way too smiley and nice about it. like sickly nice. and they were always smiling. *KILL* everyone on our team hated them. they were so annoying. meredith did AWESOME, because she always does. but we definitely lost. meredith didn't get to object, and i know that made her mad. i think all the witnesses on our side did good too.
FINALLY we are done! no more mock trial. we go to the awards, and wait forever for them to start. finally they start. no one from our team won anything. but a bunch of people from roncalli did. i know meredith would have gotten a best lawyer if we could of been plantiff twice. a roncalli team got 4th place, which means they are going to state. it's krista and julius's team. WOOHOO! that makes me happy. the first team we played got 5th and the last team we played got 3rd. which basicly that means we played two state teams. which definitely sucked. oh well.
we leave and it's 7:30. we've been there for almost 12 hours. ah! we drop erin off and i get home at 8:00. i sit in the recliner and cannot move. i ate some food and watched johnson family vacation. that movie is hilarious. after the movie is over i fall asleep in the recliner. my parents made me get up and go to bed. i fall asleep around 10:00 and didn't wake up until 10:00 this morning.
me and my mom pick up erin around 7:45. we get downtown and end up driving around in a huge block because they blocked off the center of the city. (which we later found out was because they were lowering a water cooler on top of one of the buildings with a helicopter. which we see happening when we go to lunch.) we get there at 8:00, before any of our other team. so HA! we go through the metal detecters, mine beeps. so i get strip searched. lmao juust kidding.
we find out we have to be defense, which is when i'm a lawyer. and basicly we're screwed because this is our weakest side. we're playing a team from another school. (note: there are 16 teams there and we have 8 teams from roncalli.) we did alright, but pretty much everyone is clueless on objections. but of course i'm the only one that gets yelled at. whatever. we lost, but probably not that bad. when they were telling us what all we did good and bad, they said something out loud that i did good. it made me happy. of course they didn't say my name, but they said what i was crossing the witness on and what i did good on. (i let the witness answer the question how they wanted to, but kept going back to the question until they answered it how i wanted them to.) i thought i did good besides for the objections, which i did crap on.
at the end, we asked the team what school they are from. they wouldn't tell us and they said it caused problems in the past. i don't get what the big deal is. later we find out they go to penn. i still don't understand what the big deal was.
we're done by 10:30, so now we get to go to lunch. we decide to go to circle center. we get there and the sophmore boys team was there and julius and krista's team too. they played eachother. we ate (i got japanese. yum) and then walked around the mall. we found a candy store and got candy necklaces, and me and erin the big pixie sticks. then we go to the lovesack store and krista's team is in there taping something for channel 1 and we got to be in the background for it. haha i don't know if you can see us in there though.
then we walk back and we still have about an hour left. later we find out what courtroom and what side we're on. we have defense again. crap. but we're against the sophmore boys team. they aren't that good. we get in there 30 minutes early and talk to the other team. we drew a very manly picture of meredith on the board they had in there. it was funny. and somehow we ended up talking about me smoking pot. how they all knew, i have no clue. probably because i hang out with kyle and erin knows i do.
then we get started, i got the objection right this time, but i wasn't really expecting some of the objections i got to my direct. so i didn't have any answers to them, so i made up some stuff. one got overruled and the other one didn't. but erin kept answering the question, and i got yelled at by the judge to "control my witness." then i didn't have any redirect, and got yelled at by kate. i mean, i didn't have anything to ask erin after the cross. so what am i suppose to do?
ours is over in about 40 minutes, which is really short. we have about 2 hours until our next one. so we hang out with the other team in our courtroom. it was fun. we listened to techno music. haha i <3 techno.
then we find out our next one and what what team we are against. we are against a perry team and we finally have plantiff, so i get to be a witness. by this time it's 4:00. and we got started. i seriously wanted to kill the other team. they were way too smiley and nice about it. like sickly nice. and they were always smiling. *KILL* everyone on our team hated them. they were so annoying. meredith did AWESOME, because she always does. but we definitely lost. meredith didn't get to object, and i know that made her mad. i think all the witnesses on our side did good too.
FINALLY we are done! no more mock trial. we go to the awards, and wait forever for them to start. finally they start. no one from our team won anything. but a bunch of people from roncalli did. i know meredith would have gotten a best lawyer if we could of been plantiff twice. a roncalli team got 4th place, which means they are going to state. it's krista and julius's team. WOOHOO! that makes me happy. the first team we played got 5th and the last team we played got 3rd. which basicly that means we played two state teams. which definitely sucked. oh well.
we leave and it's 7:30. we've been there for almost 12 hours. ah! we drop erin off and i get home at 8:00. i sit in the recliner and cannot move. i ate some food and watched johnson family vacation. that movie is hilarious. after the movie is over i fall asleep in the recliner. my parents made me get up and go to bed. i fall asleep around 10:00 and didn't wake up until 10:00 this morning.