McKay decided that he was going to take first place in his class oratorical competition. Georgia 5th graders are expected to write a speech that has to do with optimism. This year's theme was "healing the world with optimism." McKay spent hours writing and memorizing his speech. He practiced giving it to dozens of people, including going over to our neighbors house by himself when the missionaries were over for dinner and giving it to them.
The day of the speech he came out of the school so excited that he had tied for first place with is buddy Alex. The next day they did a tie breaker and Alex beat him by one point. McKay was pretty sad about it, but his teacher called me and told me how amazing he did. She said it was such a hard decision and that the whole class was so sad that McKay has taken second. He had to go out of the classroom to get something and when he came back in the whole class started clapping for him. He has had such a great year this year. He speech was really good.
I wondered how McKay would do with losing to Alex, but he was such a good sport about it and cheered for Alex to win the school competition (which he did). Alex went on to county and we were able to watch since it was over Zoom. McKay changed our phone name to "Vote for Jones" and he chanted Alex's name through the whole competition. I am proud of McKay for working hard on the speech, but I am infinitely more proud of him for being a good sport and being loyal to his friend. Good and hard lessons are being learned.
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