His word was knaidel (dumpling) - a Yiddish derived German word. "The German curse has turned into a German blessing," him and his brother said.
Congratulations to all spellers! This was a great Bee!
Second place goes to Pranav Sivakumar, third goes to Sriram Hathwar, fourth to Amber Born, Vanya Shivashankar and Vismaya Kharkar tied for fifth. Grace Remmer, Chetan Reddy, and Syamantak Payra tied for seventh. Christal Schermeister placed tenth, and Nikitha Chandran placed 11th.
We hope to see Vanya, Sriram, and Syamantak next year!
Now that the Bee is over, what will you do? Study, relax? Grace said she's going to practice her violin and viola more, and Arvind said he's going to study Physics!
What am I going to do? Summer Reading for AP Literature; Summer assignment for AP US History, planning to write a children's opera (the music, at least); choir recording; practice flute, piano and voice; compose and arrange music; coach my sister and young friends for the Bee (if I have time); study languages; go on several vacations; youth camp; definitely a lot more!
Here are the results:
http://public.spellingbee.com/public/results/2013/round_results
I'm signing off for the 2013 Bee now! See you next year (or in a few weeks).
Just wondering, but assuming you were following along on the finals, how many words did you know off the bat?
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Vismaya did amazingly well!!