The Spelling Bee at the American College!!!
The
National Spelling Bee Competition at the American College!!!
This
year’s National Spelling Bee competition was held on Saturday, (07.04.2012) at the American College in Skopje. There were
more than 900 participants, starting from the primary schools, to the 3th and
4th year high school students, from all over Macedonia. The impressions from
that day were that this year’s competition was a huge success.
The volunteers from the Peace Corps were doing everything so that
the participants could feel great. There were rooms for entertainment and also,
the participants could watch interesting and funny movies.
But, the real fun started when the participant’s time to compete
started. You could almost feel their hearts racing... Since there were lots of
participants, Mini Bees were organized in separate rooms,
and then the finalists of each room were combined in one major room where the finals
took place. By doing this the judges could do their job faster and
easier.
The
greatest event of this competition was the arrival of the American ambassador
Paul Wohlers. The students from 3th and 4th year High school had the
opportunity to show their talent in spelling in front of the ambassador. In the
end, the ambassador presented the winners with the second and first place
prices. He also gave a speech in which
he said that, those who didn't win shouldn’t be
disappointed because he is very proud of Macedonia’s young generations. He even
mentioned that if he was in the competing line, but, in Macedonian language, he
would fail at the beginning.
So,
for those of you who didn't win anything, DON'T GIVE UP!!! You earned a big
experience at this competition. Use it as your advantage next year, and there might
still be a chance for you to win.
Just
to let you know that there was one participant from Negotino who won second
place in the 5th grade
category. It’s the primary school student Vane Mirchev, studying at OOU “Goce
Delcev” - Negotino Congratulations to him!!!
More information and
photos are published on FB:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Spelling-Bee-Macedonia/307677945957245
http://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Spelling-Bee-Macedonia/307677945957245
Or, on the official
National Spelling Bee blog:
http://thenationalspellingbee.blogspot.com/
http://thenationalspellingbee.blogspot.com/
Emilija Petrska
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