Yes, finally I have time to tumble about Conclave!
Well let me start discussing the entire experience. I sent my paperwork to the District to officially be a LTG candidate a week and a half before it was due, and then me running for LTG was final. All the craziness started with me and Brandon doing the literature at his house right before we went to Sadies! Thank you so much for helping me Brandon and Adam for printing out copies and saving my butt! I really was happy with my literature! I was just sad how I couldn’t fit all of my Key Club stuff coz there was too much. LOL.
As a few days passed, more editing of the lit, etc. I had a convo with someone that really brought me down which changed my outlook on the entire situation and running for LTG. I was sad because of what people think/thought of me, and honestly it discourage me greatly. This entire drama situation really discouraged me. But honestly, I got over it because I wasn’t going to let people’s false views on me affect me running for LTG. I’ve wanted to be LTG since I joined Key Club in Freshmen year, and there wasn’t anything that could change my mind about running. After that low point, it started crunch time for Conclave. I had another convo with someone and honestly I’m happy that happened because it cleared things up and hopefully it really changed things.
On Thursday, I did my toe nails and Zyla and I stayed up until 3AM looking up answers for caucus questions. lol. Then woke up at 6AM to get ready and go to the GV Kiwanis meeting. After that, went to Postnet to make copies of my lit. After that, went to Galleria to buy a new professional dress top for Conclave and I ended up buying 2 and I got a discount. :) Then we were going to our board meeting at Kevin’s, then there was a big traffic jam coz of Obama. Zyla and Kris asked me to see what was going so I got out of the car and checked, then I started dancing on the freeway and got honked at by Pigeon Control. LOL. We were stuck there for so long I moved the BM to 1PM instead. After the jam was over we headed to wal mart to buy Kevin food for the BM. They bought food and then we went to gas up Kris’ car where we saw Joe the Pres of GV Kiwanis. He did the asian peace sign when he said bye to us! haha then we went to the BM and talked about inductions and awards. ALL OF THAT IS DUE WEDNESDAY! Just reminding the KC Board :) Then after that we chilled at Kev’s for a bit, then went to TS for the K Pag. social. We had to leave early coz we had other stuff we had to take care of.
After we took care of our errands, we went to eat pho and thats where I got really sick. I talked to my mom and she said I got food poisoning :( I was shaking and felt really sick, and I couldn’t eat ANY of my pho! That was the worst part! haha. Then we went to Starbucks to work on my speech which didn’t go very well, so we went to try and find wi fi by Brandon’s house, failed, and then went to Brandon’s house and worked on it there. We left and my speech was so not done. haha. We all went home and i talked to Tristaniel about caucus q’s and speeches. I decided sleep>speech because I felt like crap and I wanted to throw up every now and then. I woke up the day of Conclave feeling nauseous but then I ate a banana, ginger ale, and crackers to help get over it. I worked more on my speech and got ready then went to SWCTA.
We had to be there at 1 so i was just chilling and studying my speech/caucus q’s. Fast forward to caucus session. I was first up and I had to knock like 5 times just to get into the room haha. Then I did my speech which was HORRIBLE. Not even exaggerating, I was too nervous, I drew a blank, I got cut off in the middle of my speech, and I felt sick the entire time. Not just being nervous, but food poisoning sick type of sick. The people that knew me in there, they know I NEVER get that nervous. I think I was so nervous because this was some thing that I’ve wanted for so long, and I never wanted anything so badly. I also felt pressure from other people and I knew if I didn’t do well, I would disappoint them and myself. That right there was my downfall. Moved on to caucus q’s, and I think I did pretty fair. Went back to my designated room feeling very down and defeated. I talked to Kevin from CKI and the teacher in there and they made me feel a lot better. Phil came back to get me and I cried because I was so sad because of how badly I did. I talked to Kevin again, sucked it up, and went back to the caucus room when they were done. Then I just chilled with Brandon, Zy, and Kris. Went back to gen. session and it was extremely nerve racking. Especially when they announced South last! We were all holding hands and when they announced my name I was so happy and the first person I hugged was Zyla! We were all screaming and I was so excited. Then Phil gave me my panda and ahh it was so amazing. :)
We were dismissed and I hugged everyone and it didn’t really sink in yet that I won, until I talked to Zyla thanking her for everything. I cried and she started crying and it was all so emotional haha. Then I talked to brandon and we group hugged with Zyla haha. I received more congrats from people which was really nice :] I put my stuff in kris’ car, changed my shoes, and went to the dance. The dance was so fun and someone started a circle around me when I was dancing with this one guy from Valley who was getting REALLY freaky with me. hahahaha. it was so much fun! I was dancing all over the place and brandon was too especially! lol. I took pics with taniel, marc, and some other people. Went to the parking lot and had a convo about a Korean music festival with Valley people and then we went to alfred’s :)
We watched avatar and had a tumblr social at Alfred’s and just talked about Conclave. It was pretty chill and fun. I love all the colors in alfred’s house! and the nose of his bunny<3 haha.
Went to Kris’ then dropped off brandon then went to Joe’s. He made spam musubis! yum! we watched BOF and talked about conclave and everything. I brought my panda Tae Yang (not final name) in and we all knocked out. I was the second to last to sleep! It’s a new record! lol.
I saw all the FB and tumblr congrats and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone! It really happy to have everyone’s congrats and support! You all have no idea how much it means<3 This entire experience showed me that even if people are against you, don’t let it bring you down if you’re passionate about some thing you want. Also, no matter what people aren’t going to like you but those that support you and love you will outweigh those that dislike you and don’t support you. Don’t let those people bring you down.
After everything that has happened, all my hard work paid off and I couldn’t be happier! I’m still sad I put brandon and zyla through so much crap, but I know they put up with this because they love me. I love you guys so much you don’t even know! I wouldn’t have made it if it wasn’t for everyone, but especially you two. :] I just hope all the drama has come to an end, and if I need to rebuild my reputation to have people see me as who I really am, then I will. It sucks that I have to, but hey that’s life. :)
I’m BEYOND happy and I’m determined to make next year awesome! Congrats to Tristaniel and Yuna! Good job to all of the candidates! Next year will be great, and I can’t wait for all of it to begin! :)<3
