sepublic sepeaking. X)

ohkayh..

here goes.

with me unprepared,
i crashed the venue,
that is 7A2's class.
i only have my pencil case and my note card with me.
when i first arrived at the corridor (2nd floor) i saw teacher Zurina at the parking lot, on her way to go up.
i started becoming nervous just by seeing her because last year she was one of the judges.
then i got into the classroom.
i finally saw my opponents.
i was very relieved when i saw that majority in the class was juniors.
so i say to myself, "I'm the only senior so far. I can take over these crowds."

i saw familiar faces.
most of them had participated in last year's public speaking competition.

teacher Zu was already in. she told us that we were waiting for the judges
not long after that, i saw my English teacher, teacher Zakiah and another English teacher, Datin Solehah coming into the room.

so, we started our competition.
the first speaker was a little chinese girl.
i didn't remember what form she was.
her topic was quite interesting.
it was about a teenager's freedom.
when she first spoke, i started to have goosebumps.
"Damn this girl was good! And she's a junior!"
i lost my confidence.
then her turn was over.

there were a few people delivered their speech.

when it was my turn,
i gathered ALL of the confidence that i can.
i put it ALL together.
to my own surprise,
i managed to deliver it in quite a positive way.
loud, clear voice and good pronunciation.
the only negative side of my speech today was that i got no style and i didn't memorize my text.
all in all, it was a LOT better than my presentation last year.

this was what i observed today, during the competition:

• i THINK Regu (an Indian boy) & A.S. used the same topic that they used last year.
• a boy named Vincent talked about blogging, his text contents was almost the same as my English PowerPoint Presentation last year.
• One of school junior debater used my public speaking topic last year but she added some additional points.
• Teacher Zurina slept. hihi. but, there's this one time, where she suddenly stood up and take pictures of the competitions.
• Teacher Zakiah stared at me while i'm delivering my speech. she also smiles at me. A LOT! in some way, her behaviour actually relaxes me.
• Datin Solehah looked quite strict.
• Teacher Zurina's son was very active. he was walking around the class.
• 7A2 was a very nice class. they put some guppies in the middle of the classroom. they put it in an aquarium with some aquatic plants.the world nowadays are so modern.
  
• the timekeeper looked like she was about to faint.
• the Emcee scribbles A LOT..! i wonder what she was scribling..hurm..

after the results was announced, i was quite disappointed when my name was not in the list.
but, i know that i did not do my very best.
and i also knew that if i prepare earlier i should've got the chance for the second round,
after that, most of the people that were eligible for the second round stayed for some instructions from Teacher Zu. i don't know what i'm doing there, but i stayed too.
the voice inside my head kept on telling me to go because i'm not in for the second round.
but the other half of me told me to stay.
deep inside my heart, i was actually hoping that i might,somehow, be part of the first round winners.
then, TeAcher Zakiah turned around to look at me and said,
"it's okay Najwa. It's a good try. the only problem with you is that you don't have the style. but your pronunciation is really good."

i walked home saying to myself, "i didn't get the second chance to win but at least i went home with a compliment from the teacher."

and i would not fuss about me not winning anymore because i know that there are something good that i did during my talk.

mine,
nudgewa.





p/s: a bit bummed by my dorm mates.
p/ss: i purposely let my post this time simple. if you have any difficulty reading it, please leave me a comment.














9 days.