PUNKTUM

This week I met with the robotics team on Tuesday, and had my language lesson on Wednesday. Thursday was the Punktum competition. It’s a maths and science competition that takes place in Paide. Luckily I was chosen to participate from my school. So in the morning I went there with the other two participants from my region. The competition consists of two parts and a time limit. The first part is mental arithmetic and the second part is general problem solving. Unfortunately the German translations they had for me were pretty bad and for some of the problems I just couldn’t understand what I was supposed to do. After the first two parts we went for lunch and looked around the school. The school is really cool and I would definitely like to go there, but of course I can’t. One of the American exchange students also goes there. The third part of the competition was in a team and I did it with the two girls I came with. It was about science and pattern recognition in general. So when we got to the awards ceremony, the assumption that the language barrier was the worst problem was confirmed. I was awarded for coming close to 3rd place in every category, even though I’m an exchange student. So the day was fun but it wasn’t really successful, and in the evening volleyball training was nice again. Now our holidays have started and I’m going on a road trip with my family. We arrived in Latvia today and I’ll keep you updated about our holiday more frequently.