Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Courage
When I was younger, I used to take speech lessons and every once in a while, there used to be a speech contest. It was my first time speaking infront of a larger group of people because usually in my class, I only spoke in front of a small amount of people. But this was different. I had to speak infront of parents, other students, and the judges. The most terrifying part of this experience was that we were getting judged. Then, after weeks of preparing, the day had finally come to present my speech. Of course, all I had to do was recite the memorized paper, but at this point Korean was my 2nd language, and it hadn't been long, since I had first moved. It was like memorizing a speech in Italian and getting judged for it. It was sort of frustrating in the beginning. I was embarrassed most of all, of how people would think or say if i messed up. But, since i had already signed up and agreed to do it, I took the chance. It wasn't easy going up on stage with an audience of people starring at you. It was quite nervewrecking. But once i got on the stage, it was really, a good feeling. I had presented my speech "almost" fluently with only a few mistakes here and there. After I was finisehd i was proud of myself. Even though it was something tough to go through because i was young, and as well was speaking a foreign language, i went through it. And now as i look back, im glad i did because when i did take that chance, i felt alot braver. I had confidence in myself. This contest was a huge benefit for me because this taught me to say what i wanted and how to say it, professionally. This competition lead onto more chances for me, and later in 5th grade, i had the opporotunity to recite a speech in english. I guess from this experience, you could tell about my personality that I'm a person that i say i dont want to do it, but inside, i know iwant to. And im also afraid of what people really think of me. This experience for me, was the definition of courage because i did something that was really brave to me, and i had accomplished it.
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4 comments:
ur good at speaking... wat r u talking about?
join 4n6 next year lol
haha I guess people doesnt give responses because the blog is LONG ㅋㅋbut I'm, just a genius so...ㅋㅋㅋㅋI had the same exerience!!!When I was in 2nd grade I had to give a speech in a contest, which it was really, really hard to do. But I think you had more courage than me because at that time, you just arrived in Korea, and I lived in Korea for almost 4 years. Wow, man it most have been hard!!
GREAT JOB!!! haha it was kind of hard and it made me think of my past too!
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u don't know what debating feels like and i can tell you since i did the forensics thing in tcis. you have to prepare about three speaches. and you have to pay close attention and have the correct atitude and get ready to make last second changes. It is alot more complex and nerveracking but i guess that since you were in elementary school, you did a awesome job, i remember that i couldn't spell the word sentence in grade 2 (but so couldn't almost the whole class)and i wasn't too fluent untill grade 4. Elementary school speach ......
what kind of school is that?
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