WE WON WE WON!

this post is purely for the sake of me remembering what happened.

so i got up at 8:45 ish. i was so paranoid that my alarm would run out of battery that i automatically woke myself up at 3 and 6 and 8 oclock :L you know when your brain automatically does that ... yeah well it's annoying.

i took the train and bus with Merrilyn (totalling 1 hour trip) and met Connie just as we got off the bus. we met Michelle at the entrance (turns out she has twin little sisters! adorable, i know) and started getting prepared.

first school: PLC
we then played PLC. it was ok, we won 3 out of 5 games (alison, michelle and connie lost their matches) but IT WAS GOOD. like it was average, nothing too hard.

second school: SGHS (i know right, they've got the same abbreviation thing as us. strathfield girls high school.)
omg. this was frustrating for catherine and i. so we were playing against them ... and during practise and watching the second doubles (catherine and i) THEY DIDN'T EVEN LOOK THAT GOOD. but SADLY WE LOST. partly because i was being stupid and went to the front for a period of time (usually catherine stays at the front and i take the back) and catherine told me later on that was why she couldn't get the back ones :( stupid me :'( it was kinda sad cause it was my first match i lost :( (mainly cause i played with carolyn last time so she made everything nice) we won 3 out of 5 games

third school: SGHS (this was actually Sydney Girls High ... we were playing against the other team we put in)
so team 1 (my team) still had an inkling of hope to win ... so we were like OMG SHOULD WE JUST ASK THEM TO LET US SO WE CAN GUARANTEE A WIN?! but then we were like NAH that isn't fair and even if we win we wouldn't find it fun ... so we played normally. and catherine and i lost to sandra and renee (i don't know what happened! we played very badly i guess. then sandra and renee should have been in our team if they were better than us ...) and we won 4 out of 5 of the games ....

fourth school: PLC (they entered 28736458 teams. not really. but they won girls div 1)
this was good :) catherine and i won our doubles thing quite easily, which was good cause we were beginning to lose confidence :( catherine spazzed before our game cause the girls we were playing against were in year 7 and they were really tall! anyway we won 4 out of 5 games here :D

fifth school: HGHS (runner up last year)
this was the most nervous match catherine and i played. it was really tense cause we NEEDED to win at least three games in this to get a chance at winning ... and we were under heaps of pressure to win this. well, not really. obviously our team mates said 'no pressure' but we still wanted to do our best :D and ... GUESS WHAT. we were like TIED AT 14 ALL and the winning team is the team first to reach 15. usually if you get two tied one point below the winning thing you raise the winning thing by 1 and you keep doing that until one person is two points ahead of the other and they win (you know what i mean?) - but this time apparently you dont. so it was a matter of whoever won this match won the game.

YEAH I KNOW RIGHT SO FREAKY.

so i was like fully sweating and i understood why Clive (our coach) told me to remove the plastic thing on my badminton racket grip ... cause when i sweat the racket tends to kind of slide in my hand. well anyway. i just told myself JUST TRY TO HIT IT BACK DONT EVEN TRY TO RISK LOSING THIS POINT.

... AND THEN WE WON!!!!!! OMG. WE LIKE WENT FULLY CRAZY CAUSE WE WERE QUITE SURE WE WOULD GET 3 OUT OF 5 GAMES THEN, CAUSE LATER CAROLYN WOULD PLAY AND WIN.

but when carolyn played she was playing against ANOTHER REALLY REALLY GOOD PLAYER. at the beginning carolyn got it out and into the net several times but she made up points for it. whenever the hornsby girl won her team mates were like fully cheering so we were like WE GOTTA SUPPORT CAROLYN TOO! so when she won we would like clap really loudly. but when the opponent got a point we clapped softly ... when carolyn remarked on how we clapped when she lost we explained to her that:

1. we didnt want it to look like we had bad sportsmanship
2. we wanted to show carolyn that we werent too frowning and angry when she lost the point to clap, just to show that we were still with her!

and at the awards ceremony they announced the runners up were hornsby .... then i was like OMG. WE WON HORNSBY. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE .... then they said that the winners were SYDNEY GIRLS HIGH! and we all erupted into applause and im like in my head OMG YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY MY DREAM HAS COME TRUE! it was so great! 

when we went up to get our medals and trophy i was first up and unfamiliar with the process ... so after she put the medal on me i turned around and asked Alison if i just join the end of the line and fumbled around for a bit (SAME CONCEPT AS WHY I DONT LIKE GETTING ON THE BUS FIRST) ... until i turned around and i saw the lady with her hand out to me ... anticipating a hand shake. i quickly shook her hand but my brain was like OMG I JUST LEFT THIS POOR LADY WAITING FOR MY HANDSHAKE AND NOW SHE THINKS I'M SO IMPOLITE AND I GAVE SGHS A BAD REPUTATION! OMG NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

but it was brilliant :D

my lights can be seen inside the shuttlecocks ....

the back!

ignore my lights >.>