Speech/Forensics

Many people at Bayshore High School have no clue that we have a speech class, or they do not even know what speech class is about. Well i have had the privilege of knowing about this class perhaps because my mother teaches it. When I first took this class my 10Th grade year I was not the best speaker and definitely wanted to improve my communication skills. For some ,(like my self when i first started) it was pretty hard and very nervous to get up in font of a bunch of people and talk. It is even known that public speaking is the number one feared activity. I would get up there to start talking and It was like a 500lb weight was on me that I couldn't get off. I would start talking really fast and get nervous and red in the face. This all finally changed the longer I participated in speech. I gained more confidence while speaking in front of a lot of people. This year i decided to participate in Forensics. Forensics is a speech competition league with many different branches on how or what you may be speaking about. The type of speech I competed in was student congress. Resolutions are picked from the student authors and then a debate is formed on the topic whether you are for or against the issue. Now, the students I competed against were from schools all over our Florida district, and many of them were kids who were very very intelligent and would probably soon to be lawyers. This being my first year doing this organized type of tournament I was not really on the same level as most of them. I met lots of cool, weird, funny , annoying, friendly, (kids who really like to talk a lot) type of people. The experience was awesome and I now wish that I had pursued this much earlier. This learning experience and building of my communication skills has molded me into a great speaker and i will have this tool for the rest of my life.