Privyet!

Hello, Decathletes! I'm Mrs. Taylor, and for those of you who don't know me, in addition to being one of the Academic Decathlon coaches, I teach French at VVHS.  You've all been to my room, E113, so remember where I am in case you ever need anything.

So, a little about me...as Alaina said she was obsessed with dinosaurs, I am obsessed with languages.  I speak several, including French (duh) and, more pertinent to us for the Decathlon next year, Russian, so hopefully we can have some fun together learning a little bit of that fascinating language.  I have lived in Belgium, France and smack-dab in the middle of Siberia in Russia.  And no, it wasn't really that cold.  I competed in AD when I was in high school in Arizona.  I loved it, and it kind of saved me from being obscenely bored and getting into massive trouble in high school.  My first year as a decathlete, I worked really hard, but I was only a sophomore, so I didn't know how well I would do.  I knew I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't a cheerleader and I wasn't going to be prom queen, but I knew there had to be something I was good at! At my first regional competition, I earned eight medals...so yeah, I guess I learned that I was good at something.  So I will echo Mr. Riggs' sentiment from our first informational meeting, one medal is great, but the sound of two or more clinking together and the weight of all that awesomeness on your chest is really a wonderful feeling of accomplishment.

Now, onto the assignment at hand.  I would most definitely choose flight as my superpower.  It isn't because I want to escape reality necessarily, I have much more practical reasons.  I should add to my list of obsessions that I am utterly obsessed with travel, and I feel like I spend wayyyyyyy too much $ on airfare yet I long to go everywhere on this beautiful planet.  So, if I could fly, achieving my dream would be much less expensive.  I don't think that choosing invisibility means anything necessarily negative about a person and what they like to do, but I just can't think of any practical applications in my life for it.

Also, one final thing about me...I'm horrible, I mean HORRIBLE at math, so don't ask me any math questions, I will only help you get them wrong :(.