A Slice of Life by Nathaniel Guevin

It was 6:30 am on a Saturday on rt. 84. The warmth in Charles' truck was a pleasant change from the cold winter air. I had already had a two-hour day, so as you can imagine, I was exhausted, and I still had a long, science filled day at University of Connecticut.

It was the day of science bowl, and the caravan of cars was driving down to Connecticut. We were following the white Cadillac Escalade, carrying Jonathon, Kevin, and John's mother, through all the tolls and off all the exits, while, at the same time following what the small black GPS told us. Charles was asleep, leaning against the window, while his father was patiently watching the road, and I was sitting in the back typing this on my iPod touch in it's blue case. Before then it was snowing, but now that fluffy, light snow had turned into wet, ugly rain. There was no sound, but the sound of the radio, the sound of the windshield wipers, and the sound of traffic. You could see Charles trying to resist being grabbed by sleep, just to get pulled under and doze off.

Suddenly we all stopped. We had missed our turn, but the GPS said otherwise. All of a sudden everyone was following us, instead of us following everyone else.
We arrived at UConn and were allowed to go to a continental breakfast. I excitedly ate three doughnuts, while TJ ate five. We walked around, talked to each other, and just waited for them to open the lecture hall, C-80. We got a lecture about what was going to happen today and the trophies.

Then the competition started. My team was made up of Mike Kelly, Jonathan, Nathaniel McCarthy, Noel Feeny, and I. We didn't think we were doing well after the first round, probably because we lost 154 to 52, but then we made a turn-around victory against the next team. We had a short intermission and then got right back to the action. We won against our next two teams, and broke for lunch.

After lunch we had an assembly. In this assembly they announced that the other BC High team was in the winners bracket, while we were in the wild card. We beat every team in the wild card up to the semi-finals. At half time we were down by 56 points. We kept trying though. We pushed as hard as we could, but didn't win. We ended up losing by 88 points. We then went on to room 204 to play for third. When we got in and saw the team we realized we had played, and beat them before. We fought valiantly, but lost.
After this we went to the dairy bar at UConn. I got the Jonathan Supreme, an ice cream with peanut-butter swirl and chocolate covered peanuts.

Charles had a hockey game, so I went home with TJ. We played on my iPod touch and watched Up. We stopped at a Men’s Warehouse, where my mom met me and I went home. Overall I had a great day!