That was so bloody unfair!!! We had this LOTE reading competition at school today, and it was being held at our school. As the aforementioned foreign language is so obscure and small and basically no one takes it, all the schools in the state that have it as a subject congregated at our school for the competition. They had actual food too, not just the economy-sized cardboard crap that they usually feed us (disregarding our astronomical school fees) because of course we had guests. It’s like the whole philosophy of our school – the outside part, the part they take the people to see on the school tours, is all nice and newly refurbished and all, but once you get into the real functioning part of the school it’s just like oh. This place is craparse.

But anyway, the competition. Because there is such a shortage of decent teachers of the language around, they got some of the teachers from our school and the other schools to act as judges. Now last year there was this totally annoying girls’ school that pretty much scooped the pool, or at least got a sizable portion of the prizes, and there is this one particularly annoying prissy girl in our year level who won last year. So this year, I was determined to brush up my language skills, and work really hard to beat that stupid girl. So then we were all holding our collective breaths when the girl got up on the stage to do her reading – and guess what? She was nowhere near as good as she seemed last time. So we’re all sitting back, relaxed and waiting for the judges to take like half a bloody hour to decide on a result. And there we’re all thinking the field’s right open and it was totally unpredictable… and guess who won? THE STUPID PRISSY GIRL WHO WON THE YEAR BEFORE!!! And this is not just sour grapes because I didn’t win, but she wasn’t even that good! The students from the other year levels said so, our teachers said so, and practically everyone else I asked said so too! So why on earth did she win, you ask? Well, guess what school the same judge who had our year level for the last two consecutive years came from? PRISSY GIRL’S OWN BLOODY SCHOOL! And she said I was inconsistent in my pronunciation of vowels. What the fuck is that supposed to mean?! My own language teacher, who would have every reason to want me to do well, has never said a thing about my vowel pronunciation consistency! Anyway, Prissy Girl had heaps more noticeable ‘vowel inconsistencies’ than I ever had!

This is so unfair. She better not want to be our judge next year as well.

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