I had a positive experience while acting as a judge for a story telling competition at Thunder Ridge Elementary in Saratoga Springs.

I had an adventurous time finding the place. My GPS unit couldn’t find it. I had hoped we would have good roads this morning. No such luck. On the way to the school, there was an accident so I had to get of the highway and find an alternative way. Bob’s instructions were good, but I kept overshooting the places I was supposed to turn. The roads were so slippery that my breaks wouldn’t work well and I couldn’t stop in time to make a necessary turn so that took time as well. I didn’t get at the proper place until about 9:20 instead of 9:00. geesh. They started at 9:30 so I’m glad I wasn’t any later.

There were sure a lot of greet tellers. Two nearly got perfect scores in my opinion. The other judge, Teresa, is a BYU professor. She seemed to like the same ones I did. We had been asked to be prepared to give advice on story telling to the contestants. I realized that what I had prepared was geared more for adults. The advice I gave instead was much more simplified.

It was a nice experience. In future I need to learn to give more comments at the bottom of the judging forms. The other judge did very well on providing written feedback in addition to our grading different criteria with points. My comments were a little more sparse in comparison. I think it is neat that the schools encourage story telling. They gave me a $20 book gift certificate. Hummm maybe I should start up reading… ha ha.