Okay, I can't take long here. There's a line behind me. But this is the short of it.
We carried the round through with Lesotho, no surprised there, though it was a split decision. Some of their speakers are really quite powerful. So a 2-0 slate was nice.
Today was a different story today however. We lost to South Africa (deservedly actually) on a motion on treating terrorists as Prisoners of War (we were opposing).
And we (unfairly) lost to Scotland in the next round. I can give you a blow by blow about how I found such a decision to be ridiculous. Anyway, I don't want to dwell on negative feeling. But this par for the course anyway, unforunately, for World Schools. So we're 2-2.
Fairness to the tournament though, there have been some interesting upsets, so it isn't as if there are unbeatable teams. Pakistan has made the big splash today beating BOTH England and Australia. Good for them.
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On more positive news, we absolutely adored the school we were in today, called Ysigol Plasmawr here in Cardiff. The high school kids (Ryan, Ruth and Angelauch (sp?) ) who were watching after our team were saying Go Team Philippines and also following the debate well, and making fun of our opponents bad points. That was really swell of them. Also nice to hear that one of them actually (no joke here), is going to be in the next Harry Potter movie. He has to be hush-hush about it though. He can't tell people much about it. Wow. We're one degree of separation from the entire Harry Potter cast. He he he. We've got pictures of him if you want to see. He really looks like he can be a character in the movie. It's a wonderful school really. Great kids.
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I think the girls today are gonna do some retail therapy the next day since it's free day. We're gonna be at Cardiff Bay tonight. More updates soon. :)
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