Less Amazing: Weekend Update: A New Year for Firsts...

So... this weekend was one of the most eventful since the beginning of the Less Amazing rebirth. To all the chinese people reading this, you'll already know that its Chinese New Year, the year of the dragon. So my family and I decided to try a traditional Chinese meal. Now, I have always thought that I was pretty damn near chinese. Trust me if you've ever been to a Chinese restaurant with me you'll know that I always try to order new things you haven't seen and use my Chinese charms to get a discount from the old women that take orders. Well, we (and by we i mean my family and I/ everybody here at Less Amazing) were all wrong. This was the stuff that chinese people from China ate... stuff that Brennan the fake Chinese guy doesn't eat. However, I don't think that disqualifies me from my culture, especially since i actually recognized and ate two or three of the dishes...

Another event that happened this weekend, was a first for me. I attended my first fencing tournament that i did not actually fence in. This weekend, I was Coach Louie.

This is my gang of delinquents, we have a secret hand shake, team songs, and an original hand sign. No we don't have a name yet but for now we're Brennan's Brigade. My assembly of assassins or as I like to consider them Clan of Killers, did work this weekend and all got medals. The weekend started off with the Mens under 10 competition. My brother, Bryce "The Hunter" Louie, fenced his heart out and ended up winning the gold. The next day, Juliette took fifth after a rough first round in the Women's under 12 division. Now the kid standing next to me with the matching jacket is my younger brother Brett and he competes in the Men's under 12 division(and bryce does too..). So after a very rough start for the two, they came out of the first round seated eighth and ninth. Now if any of you know how brackets play out, we all know that in a bracket of 32, 8 and 9 meet each other meet in their second matches assuming they both win. And that happened. The two destroyed their first matches just so they could meet. They both had something to prove. This heated match went from sport to brawl, the two brothers were out for blood. What sucks is that despite how bad they both wanted it, one of them had to lose. Eventually, the two were tied, with one match to go. The final match went to 4-4. There were tears, screams of joy, and the loud beep of a fencing strip. Brett won. The big brother took the prodigy down. Brett went on to lose the next round, but he still got sixth. Despite all the drama I was very proud of my brigade.