Forgot to mention, I went over to Russell's (hs friend/speech guy) room after school. Turns out we had 9 performances qualify for the All-State Speech Festival!
And he is campaigning for them to let me go along as coach and girls' chaperone (5 girls made it and the other 2 coaches are guys). Also he already requested that the school name me the third coach for next year, so I will be 'legit'...