This sucks!
Feb. 7th, 2004 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyrasantae
Out of the 20 people in my catagory, the top 12 got to go to provincials. I wasn't one of them.
I couldn't have been that bad! Okay, well my speech was very unique -- It wasn't research or statistics-based or about literature or philosophy -- and I don't think anyone else told a personal story like me but that shouldn't mean I get automatic last place!
I guess one reason why few people do speeches like mine is because this sort of epiphany doesn't happen to most people this age. Or so timely. Or they just don't think about it. Heck, I didn't really know myself what I learned from this experience until just on Wednesday when I wrote the [new] second-last paragraph. Actually, there were other lessons too, only that was the most accessible to people in general (and isn't based on my "twisted" principles).
I suppose I'm just a little more than angry; I really wanted to be able to take my speech to more people, and the odds weren't bad at all! And it wasn't like I couldn't deliver it either, there were lots of people that stumbled and tripped over their cue cards and couldn't keep a good pace and stuff like that. I used a script but hey, the 4th place (or was it 3rd?) finished used a script too. Sigh. Crazy judges.
I've edited my Jan. 29th post so that it has the final copy of my speech.
I couldn't have been that bad! Okay, well my speech was very unique -- It wasn't research or statistics-based or about literature or philosophy -- and I don't think anyone else told a personal story like me but that shouldn't mean I get automatic last place!
I guess one reason why few people do speeches like mine is because this sort of epiphany doesn't happen to most people this age. Or so timely. Or they just don't think about it. Heck, I didn't really know myself what I learned from this experience until just on Wednesday when I wrote the [new] second-last paragraph. Actually, there were other lessons too, only that was the most accessible to people in general (and isn't based on my "twisted" principles).
I suppose I'm just a little more than angry; I really wanted to be able to take my speech to more people, and the odds weren't bad at all! And it wasn't like I couldn't deliver it either, there were lots of people that stumbled and tripped over their cue cards and couldn't keep a good pace and stuff like that. I used a script but hey, the 4th place (or was it 3rd?) finished used a script too. Sigh. Crazy judges.
I've edited my Jan. 29th post so that it has the final copy of my speech.
