Mock Trial Scrimmage Yesterday

It was awesome. Lots of alumni showed up - Cece, Zhuchen, Alyssa, Lana, Adam, Cady, Andy, and George (with whom I had never been on the same team, but he seems cool).

Karishma and Gunjan were stunners in pre-trial, as usual. =P

Prosecution ran out of time to direct Alex/Angel, which was sort of a bummer, because she didn't even get to the part where she got assaulted. Defense ran out of time crossing her too; it was sort of amusing, because time ran out just as Steven finished asking a question... Alex sat there with this little smug smile on her face, it was funny.

My direct was okay, messed up once (blanked on a part of an answer), but got it in later. Tiffy also asked me if I'd like to repeat my answer, but I had finished and was surprised, so I said rather abruptly, "No." After it came out, I sort of wanted to slap myself, but ah well... Apparently I (along with Tiffy, and apparently Lisa?) got marked down for laughing and clapping during the trial (it was so fun though!). Which might explain why I only got a couple of 5s, but I didn't get anything lower than a 4, so I guess I did pretty well, according to the scores at least. In any case, I never laugh/clap during an official trial (or I do it silently behind a hand), so Ramsey said she wasn't worried about that.

Lisa got the varsity spot for Sydney Campbell - Ravid is varsity alternate. She's going to be pretty awesome in the future. =D I can totally sympathize with her, since I was varsity alternate my freshman year too. Hopefully she'll get to go to a few trials; I know I subbed in two, I think, and served as a shadow timer once. Maybe she'll be the new prosecution expert next year too, when Ramsey graduates! xP

Tate/Madison's cross was amazing. He's exactly like an 8th grader... It's awesome for his role. He was hilarious. =]

Steven only had 8 seconds to re-direct Nick/Jesse, so he squeezed in the question about, "Mr. Woodson, did you commit the assault of Angel Sterling?" and Nick finished the last word of his answer exactly when time was called. It was epic. xD I have to admit, I did clap and laugh really loud after that...

We had some pizza after, and talked about improvements and stuff. To be honest, I never would have imagined I'd be the expert witness sophomore year. I was pretty proud of myself for landing alternate frosh year, and I was expecting at least a varsity spot soph year, but not the expert. I tried out for a lay witness, and got moved up - I was insanely happy about it. xD I guess I just have that weird authoritative tone? Which sort of makes sense, my style of speaking tends to change when I'm in a more formal setting, or when I'm talking to authority figures. I learned a lot from Wendy and Ramsey about how to phrase answers though, so a big thank you to them. =] In any case, I'm happy. Even though, as Lana says, my witness has the weirdest conclusions in the world (the brick fell from the building on the right of Angel, and struck the left side of the back of her head!).

I find it amusing that even though I know the conclusions are rather ridiculous, I still try to defend them even when I'm not in trial. I feel bad when people call Dr. Brook Crane crazy, or suggest that he/she is on drugs. xD