Can't read my poker face

Over the past week, I, with the help of Daela (the director of Girls' State) and the other counselors, effectively convinced 100 seventeen year-old girls that my last name, though spelled "Black" is not pronounced as it would be assumed. In fact, there is no possible way that they could derive its "correct" pronunciation from how it is spelled. The phonetic pronunciation is as follows: "pink."

Yes, I am to be understood correctly when I tell you all that I told them my name was Alyssa "Pink" even though it is still spelled Black. One girl asked me if it was an English name. I told them truthfully that my family tells me nothing of my family history. 

You might ask: Why? Well, I can't remember. It's something we discussed last year at about 2 am when I was the only one up with Daela doing work. The same thing happened this year. 10 counselors/staff there this week, and Daela and I were the only two up til 3 and 4 in the morning doing things. Though.. We did watch Zombieland and Dr. Horrible and Glee and a couple comedy people during these nights, but that's beside the point. Mainly, we ran with the last name thing this year to confuse the hell out of these girls. It worked. They still don't know. We never told them.

I'm pretty positive I'm going to continue going to Girls State for a very long time. I suck at politics, but I like watching what these girls can do in a week, and we have a lot of fun. Plus I kind of signed a paper the other day saying I am now a part of the American Legion Auxiliary (which is what sponsors the program). There's a convention in Vegas next week. Probs going to that too. Why not? American Legion is entirely too patriotic sometimes, but I'm okay with that considering how it effects the people that attend girls and boys state. And I find politics incredibly interesting when I get the chance to learn about it.

Our staff is waay liberal too, which is always fun, especially when a resolution is introduced that adopts Arizona's immigration law rolls around. Yup. It happened. Actually made it all the way to legislation day too. Didn't get to see the debate unfortunately, but thankfully it did not pass.

I also realized that I have an amazing ability to convince anyone considered my elder or at least a few years younger than me that I'm awesome. Haven't quite figured out peers yet, but whatevs.

After watching all of the girls in a cabin become such close friends after 6 days, I remembered that we won't have weird floor next year and was sad. I miss you all. :)