May 1 is one of those bored days where students around the country scramble into a building to take the "SAT Test." (SAT Practice) "Some will win, some will lose." (Cain) There was basically a swarm of students around El Cerrito High School, where I was stationed to take the SAT Test. On the admission ticket, it does say "arrive no later than 7:45," so that's why everyone was there early. Then the door opened at 7:45, and everyone pushed their way in through the doors. I recognized a cluster of Hercules High School Students and someone yelled out my name. I said, "yeah, hi" as my response. While walking in the crowd, it was as if we students were going into this baseball stadium, were excited for a game...say, the Giants versus the A's in AT & T park. All of that rush, minus the cheering and the screaming and the chanting.
My proctor was pretty darn American. For my current life, the term American refers to anyone who is slightly slow, makes mistakes, stumbles over words, uses excessive speech fillers, and all kinds of other things...but in this case, reading the instructions wrong three times in a row:
-Good morning. Today you will be taking the SAT Subject test to show what you know"It goes on and on and on and on." (Cain). Three times over. All I know is that this was just too funny seeing her fumbling with the test instructions, asking if we had "number 2 pens," and telling the people who were lost what building in which they should be taking their test.
-Um, we're taking the SAT Reasoning today.
-Yeah, reasoning.
-Oh sorry, you will have to forgive me for this. Today's a Saturday and I'm not thinking right. You guys said reasoning?
-Yeah, reasoning.
-Okay. I don't know, I can't find this in the instruction book.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter, and this test wasn't too bad. And for those who are somewhat confused about the title of the post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_International_Airport and http://www.sanantonio.gov/aviation/.
Works Cited:
Cain, Jonathan, et al. "Don't Stop Believin'." Lyrics. Escape. 1981.
"SAT Practice - Prepare with Official SAT Test Prep Questions." College Board. College Board, n.d. Web. 30 April 2010.
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