Yesterday was Form 6 Interclass English Debate Competition Grand Final. I was part of my class debate team, acted as third speaker of opposition
team.
To prepare this competition, I had burning the midnight oil
for once, and brought netbook to school to complete my script. However, one day
before the competition, which was Tuesday, I changed my mind that using the
script that almost well prepared in the netbook. I wrote the important note
without complete sentences, taking the risk that can’t speak well in the
public.
Why was I doing so? I also have no much idea. Maybe I want
to show off my English speaking skill? It’s quite impossible as I know my
ability well. Maybe I just want to try to speak like that because I never try
this kind of debating pattern, even in Chinese debate competition.
I don’t felt quite nervous before. I have no idea why I was
not so nervous although I still can felt my heart was pounding so fast, it was
much slower than it was in the last round. The competition started. Maybe
because of final, there were 3 judges and before that, there was only 1 judge
for each round. Okay, I had to admit that there were only 2 rounds before
yesterday.
I was the last speaker before the reply speech started. I
tried to finish all my points before the time ran out. However, when I was just
talked about my team first point, the bell rang, indicated that I had only last
minute to finish my speech. Then, I tried my best to speed up every word, every
sentence, and skipped parts of the speech.
The result was announced. My team won as the champion, and I
was the best speaker in the final!
I wrote this blogpost today as yesterday was too tired for
me to write this. After the competition, I still had tuition to go.
