December 2, 2021

Raine competed in the school spelling bee again this year (it was back in-person after being just a computerized test last year).

Raine finished in the top 10, but she wasn’t happy at all. She got out on Korea because she literally didn’t know what the pronouncer was talking about. Raine is TERRIBLE at geography, so when the pronouncer automatically gave the definition because it is a homonym, it completely confused poor Raine. I could see the confusion on her face and knew she was done for. Sure enough, she spelled it with a C because she thought it was in the Caribbean.

She was so mad afterwards that I had to pull her out of school and take her out for brunch before she could go back to class!

Interesting side-not: Raine wore the same shirt that she wore 2 years earlier when she won the school bee in 6th grade. Apparently it wasn’t a lucky shirt after-all!