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It's so difficult to keep a blog with all the other things that happen throughout the week. I try to post twice a week at least, but it has been a busy one. Fortunately, it is Friday, and I got to skip my last two classes today to go to a MathCounts competition. Let me give you a bit of background information. My dad teaches middle school at the middle school where I went, and he is the MathCounts coach also. My brother is now in sixth grade at that same middle school, and he is a star Mathlete. (My brother is just all around a very talented person :) This is how MathCounts is described on mathcounts.org: "MATHCOUNTS® is a national math enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement through grassroots involvement in every U.S. state and territory... After several months of coaching, participating schools select students to compete individually or as part of a team in one of the more than 500 written and oral competitions held nationwide and in U.S. schools overseas. Winners at the local level proceed to state competitions, where the top 4 Mathletes® and top coach earn the right to represent their state or territory at the national level." Last year I took seventh at the state level. Today was the school competition at my middle school, and I went to help out. It was highly enjoyable. I will have to look into volunteering at the local competition some time.