I am in Speech and Debate—I going to state for my Aerosmith speech. It is about eight minutes and ten seconds, give or take fifteen seconds. It is eleven paragraphs long. I need to get it memorized very soon. I have a growing suspicion that the only reason that I got the state bid was because the other people doing their speeches that I was competing against had very short speeches. Or they made very few connections between their sentences. I have about four paragraphs completely memorized, which leaves a total of seven paragraphs not memorized. I would look down and read a few sentences off of my “notes” (my entire speech on note-sized (ish) cards) and look up and say about twice that without looking. I didn’t really point to my poster a lot, which I think may have helped to connect things. Super nervous, hope I can memorize it within the time limit (eight minutes with 30 seconds grace)!
I get nervous, especially doing something like this. I think I might throw up at the next event because of my nerves.
That's kind of... gross.
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