Benignant

Benignant. That's the word I missed on the Spelling Bee. So sad. Well, at least I got past the first round by successfully spelling "patriot." Haha. Oh well. It wasn't as bad as the girl next to me who had to spell "cnemial" (the "c" is silent) and also missed. Ok the judges didn't know half the words they had in front of them and could barely pronounce benignant. They had ridiculous words from the 2003 Spelling something something. Um I thought this was supposed to be a fun event. They should have made us spell words related to Semester at Sea. Like: "nautical" or "Aegean" or "Swakopmund", things like that. And the judges took a good 5 minutes to select a word from a random list of words. Out of 10, only 4 people made it past the 2nd round. We're mid-way through the Olympic Games and I think our sea has won 1 event. Haha but it's all fun. I have Jeopardy in an hour. I hope that goes a little better.