Sunny is Great

 

I competed in a speech & debate competition this saturday

and i have to say that the whole competition was such as surprise for me.

I am proudly and sadly an adamant lover of speech & debate

frankly i was never successful

i got eliminated and eliminated and eliminated

but i just couldn’t quit it because i LOVE debating

and i always HAD to think..maybe next time

 

well..

this time i didn’t debate because i had a pretty tight schedule after BosMUN

so i decided to do impromptu and oratory

I was not confident

because first of all

For impromptu, i don’t think my brain is quick enough to think about a 5min speech in 3min

and i don’t think my English is fluent enough to talk nonstop for 5min

For oratory, i wasn’t too sure about my speech

the only thing i was sure about was that my parent completely HATED the speech

they teased me the whole time i was reciting it

BUT

really to my surprise i managed to go up to the finals for both of them

i was too surprised to be happy

because seeing my code number on the wall

is NOT what i usually get to do..

 

i spent about ten minutes in complete disbelief

until i realized that i was the first person to do impromptu and i had 5 minutes until the competition

i ran to the third floor and found out that the room was occupied so all the contestant were waiting

outside of the room

everybody seemed to be flattered, nervous, and confident all at the same time

contrarily…. i bet i looked quite miserable because i couldn’t function until that time

a few minutes later we could go into the room

rate after the judges arrived i had to pick my quote from the envelope

i could pick three quotes without looking and then was able to pick one among them

i chose the quote about lies..

it was something about how lies travel so fast that the truth doesn’t even have time to put on its pants?

 

I really couln’t think

i really was nervous

i wrote “don’t panic” on my prep paper

but how could i not panic!???

i was panicing…

i decided to talk about gossip

the glamor of it, the bad effects of it, and how we should face gossip

i really have to thank the lovely girl from SFS who made a lovely speech about gossip because she gave

me some of the information i was using in my speech!!

well i somehow finished my speech and ran to the other room where i had to make my speech

 

i waited for one speaker and it was my turn

i tried to pull it off

but wow..i cut off about 1/4 of my second paragraph haha

 

honestly i didn’t expect much from both of the events

so i just waited in the auditorium without much thoughts

actually i was debating whether i should take the school bus or the subway back home

 

the announcement started and

for the second place for imromptu

oh my gosh

i heard KIS Sunny Lee

and for oratory

i heard for second place KIS Sunny Lee

again!!

both of them

were so unexpected

i was so happy and thankful thankful and thankful

 

later on Ms. Halverson congratulated me and said that she was glad that

i FINALLY got prizes

 

on the way back home (by the way subway won)

i thought about the competition

and how it was my first time competing for impromptu and oratory

and how i debated my whole high school career

rather unsuccessfully..

 

maybe debate is not my element

but i love it

without a ‘maybe’

 

i seriously am thinking about whether i should stick with impromptu and oratory

…….urgh

not that i do not like impromptu and oratory

but……………

why can’t debate just love me back?