(Two)UIL

 Two Saturdays in a row Eli earned back-to-back UIL awards. One could call it a (T)UIL. 

The first weekend he participated in the solo band contest. He played the marimba.

That boy was super nervous, but he pulled out a gold medal!

The next Saturday he participated in the One Act Play competition with his advanced theatre class.

He tried his hand on the technical team this time, running the spotlight.

Before the show the group does warm ups. Right after warm ups they had a time of compliments, where they freely gave encouraging words to each other. It was sweet.

Here is Eli in work mode, setting up the light before the show.

Six schools competed. At the end of the long day (we were there for  more than 7 hours!) the judges give out awards. Our tech team won the award for Outsanding Technical Team!

The top three teams get to go on to compete against the top three teams from another league in two weeks. We made the cut!

I'm proud of my little boy for stepping out of his comfort zone and working hard for his team.

[February 3 and 10]