Speech Tournament
 

I'm going to a speech tournament in Long Beach. I'm leaving in about an hour and a half. This is my first tournament ever. I'm pretty nervous.

My Event: Humorous Interpretation

I've taken pieces of the office, and put them into a coherent "thing" using transitions between flashbacks (I use the Wayne's World thing where they move across the screen and go 'doodleeoo doodleeoo' to tranistion into the flashback).

I'm convinced I'm gonna get knocked out in the first round, and I find that that takes a lot of pressure off. I'm excited, and scared, but I think it'll be fun, especially if I get knocked out the first round, because then I can go watch my friends give their speeches.

Discuss/Wish me luck/hi-jack thread

You'll be fine. you seem like a pretty level headed intelligent kid. i could never do it for sure, my memory is ruined.

Contgrats man , Iwish you the mest luck!

That sounds neeeaat. Have fun!

Haha! Nice Joel, thanks.
Thanks.

It is a lot easier to memorize something that you like as well.

I think it'll be easier doing it in front of strangers, because I will never have to see them again. All the people on the team say Long Beach is one of the most fun to go to also, so I'm not gonna stress and have some fun.

i still couldn't do it if i liked what i was trying to memorize. my short term memory is a wreck. i have absolutely no memory of anything i did before yesterday.

good luck alex :)

You should probably see a doctor about that... Thank you. :)

I once had a Drama COmpetition but with us it was on set design, we got third.

my sister did debate, which was apart of speech team.
the debate teacher was my social studies teacher freshman year and he is now my english teacher. really cool guy. freshman year he heard me arguing with some dude about what makes a band "good", and he told me i should come to debate team. i did for a couple days, its an early bird class in the morning but i wasnt really motivated enough, extracurricular activities really get me down.

my sister was pretty good, won some stuff. she still argues all the time, is cynical and sarcastic about everything. me and her get it from my dads side of the family.

Alex, a doctor doesn't help what drugs have ruined. Same goes for me. I don't remember anything.

AAAAHHH!!!

I did terrible! I went too fast, and got tripped up on my lines for my first mini-round but by my third one I did much better but no where near as good as some other people. I didn't make it past the first round.

BUT! I was so happy to be there, I wasn't nervous, we all had fun, I got to support the people on the team that got to finals (we got 2nd in Duo!). I got to go watch other HI's at the varsity level, and they were hilarious!

It was so much fun, it was just a great (learning) experience.

finally, someone gets it.

glad you had fun.

Yeah, it was great. A great segment from an HI (all done by 1 person):

"That guy over there is emo"
"Whats emo?"
"Have you ever heard of cross dressing?"
"Yeah"
"It's like that but with tighter pants and darker colors"