Worlds Pics

Behold the pictures! So this was the ride up to michigan - terribly exciting:

notice that Galen and I are in the exact same position:

Galen sleeping! haha.

Here we are crossing the mississippi river. And there we are in Indiana

We're in Michigan! At a rest stop!

We got to the campus at about 10pm, then we had to get our keys and find our dorms and everything. So yeah, here we are....waiting. In front of a very green wall.

Planned candid shots! Gotta love 'em. John was supposed to be kicking Galen out of the dorm they were sharing, but Galen flat out refused to participate, so here we have Hannah being kicked out.

Here we are.....SA Hero!

On our first day there we met this team from Japan so we traded some pins with them. It was really sweet, us all sitting under this big tree and trading together.

Here're all my beautiful pins

Opening Ceremonies:

This is our buddy team from Poland! Or most of them. The two girls on the team, Kasha and Amila aren't in this picture. from left: Maczek, Coach Dorota, Kuba, Woztek, Szymon, and Julian.

This is Kuba performing in their skit. He played a kitchen wench who got her dreams stolen from the Dream Hunter (played by Julian). So she had to go to the Realm of Dreams and get them back. or something like that.

Wow, one of their vehicles was amazing! It's the thing that kinda looks like a waterwheel in the middle of the pic. The vehicle had cd drives that slid in and out. And when one would slide back in, it would activate the next one, and on and on. So the cd drives would, one after another, launch out, catapulting the vehicle forward and making it roll. They won a Renatra Fusca for it at their Poland competition.

Szymon, Julian and Kuba!

Ok ok, i did get kinda obsessed with the whole pin-trading-thing. So here I am showing them all to Julian. I ended up giving him a bunch of Texas pins.

Haha, this was like just seconds after Julian knocked over my desk while skateboarding.

Caught in the act! We caught Julian sticking an "I Love Gdansk" sticker on Juliana's and my door. Gdansk is the city they're from.

This is when we took them to see Pirates of the Carribean

This was on the day we left. We were up all night the night before at that teen party, so we all look really tired. Galen and John look like they're still asleep. Our polish team won 1st place, world champions! So they were up all night, too. Singing their national anthem at the top of their lungs.

Creativity Festival-I met a dude from Canada and a girl from Hong Kong

This is Radik from Poland. He was really cool! And then I met this kid from Korea who could do a Rubik's Cube in like less than a minute!

And this is the kid from Hong Kong who loved my hat so much he traded me for it!

Here we are performing our skit:

A final farewell to our beloved Rube Goldberg machine


After we performed we threw all of our props in dumpsters!

Closing Ceremonies

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