it is so cold! my mother keeps trying to trouch me with her COLD hands, because she says I am warm but I don't feel that way!
As I am sure you have all heard I didn't do such a great job at sub-sections for speech.
I don't know what happend! I would get up on the stage all ready with my speech the judge would give me the okay. and every single thing I had been going over for the half-hour befor went zizzing out the window and I was left looking very foolish in front of alot of people that I don't know but will probaly see again next year!
also I had the worst luck of judges! I got this one lady who thought I was blowing out her eardrums and that she was hearing impaired and how bad she felt for every one else in the room! also she said my intro was too depressing! and storytelling was supposed to be fun! when half of he stories that give us are really depressing! this judge is also known for being really
slow.
But I am looking forward to next year I am going to try creative expression that is where you write your own piece. I have a idea, and I have started it, but right now I am stuck. and my m,om says it's okay that I am stuck because I have not quite a year before I have before speech starts again so I will keep blundering on with it.
- Rachel
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Hey Rachael,
Sounds like you got some good experience AND a good story to tell. Everyone who goes in for public speaking will come away with some of those.
I'll never forget the year that I entered the extemporaneous speech category--I think I was in ninth grade. I was given my topic, and then had only minutes to prepare before addressing the crowd. Other kids got topics like "should school athletes be allowed to use steroids?" Not me. Nope, I had to deliver a five-minute speech on the military situation in Beirut. By the second minute of my "speech," it was obvious I had nothing to say, but was saying it anyway, and the judge was looking as uncomfortable as I was. At one point, she actually broke the silence of one of my increasingly lengthy pauses to sympathetically interject, "It's a tough topic, I know." You could almost hear the entire crowd sigh in relief for me as I FINALLY exhausted my time, and left the stage, whereupon I sat shivering in shock for about half an hour : )
I'm proud of you for getting up there and having a go at it, and even prouder to hear that you're looking forward to next year!
Remember what I'm sure your dad has already told you; for an artist, everything unpleasant that happens is just creative material.
-Ben
And by "Rachael," I of course mean "Rachel."
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