Sorry no blog on Friday. I had scheduled posts from like a month ago up until Monday, so I guess I forgot. That’s not entirely true. I remembered, but I didn’t have internet for the majority of the day and when I did have it I was so wiped out from speech that I couldn’t type anything coherent. So here is your post. About speech.
This weekend was the last speech tournament of the semester. We went to Clark College, a two year school in Vancouver, Washington. There weren’t very many teams because there were apparently several other tournaments on the same weekend in different places. Example of how few teams there were: for duo (where two people perform), there were only two teams. Me and a girl named Nicole and Lindsay and Lilly also from our team. For poetry, only Lindsay and Lilly were competing.
But I did surprisingly well, considering that we got our duo up last week, I hadn’t memorized my informative speech until Saturday morning, I hadn’t practiced my prose in several weeks, and I hadn’t gotten very much sleep.
*drum roll*
I broke in every event I competed in. In non-debate jargon, I did not get eliminated after my guaranteed preliminary rounds. In fact, the only event I did not go all the way for finals to is debate, but I did get to semi finals and the vote to send my opponent on was not unanimous. And now for the results:
Informative Speaking: I wrote a speech about the YouTube partnership program where I talk about Nerdfighters, DaveDays, What The Buck, and multiple other popular users. It wasn’t totally memorized and I stumbled in every single speech I gave. My final placement was…. THIRD!
IPDA: I’m not going to look up what the acronym means. This is my college debate style where I get twenty minutes to prepare a case after choosing a topic to debate with my opponent. I got a bronze award for making it past the first round of cuts.
Duo: Nicole and I are performing The Chocolate Affair by Stephanie Allison Walker. I play Mr. Goodbar (with a deep, suave voice), and M&M (with a bitcy voice and a cocked hip). We got second, which is fine because Lilly and Lindsay have been practicing/performing their duo for way longer than us. (Nicole has that plaque so no picture)
Prose: I perform Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell, a piece about a college student who becomes obsessed with The Godfather because she’s frustrated by how boring and confusing her life is. I love the piece and I love performing it, and that must have shown, because… FIRST PLACE!!
I did pretty well, as you can see. So well, in fact, that after the tournament my coach asked me how I felt about going to the international tournament in Romania in March, something that only this year was opened up to freshmen. EEE!
yay! 😀