Monday, May 16, 2011

Oratorical Contest (State Finals)


            Today is the last day. I’ve been practicing everyday for the past few weeks. I’m soooo ready for this. Leo said that I was way over my head for this but seriously, I’m ready. I KNOW it’s going to be alright because I had a vision today. This was the best vision I ever had before too! Let me describe it to you:
Everyone was cheering /chanting: “Susan! Susan! Susan!!” and the school band was playing a special song just for me, while a big crowd of people swarmed my way and just before I knew it, I was up in the air. I was in so much glee! I triumphantly held my shiny, glorious, silver platter! It would be much better if it was gold though. (Ha-ha, I feel so greedy now!J) So when I was finally up for doing the contest I felt like I wanted to do something different. Then it hit me. Thanks to Archie I had thought about talking about things that were very popular but now are endangered or exist. So when I said “Do you hear it?” the room was in so much silence but then the crowd applauded before I knew it I won first place. But when we came back to school, the vision had been wrong, there were only 3 people. My only real friend, Dori, has been holding a ‘CONGRATULATIONS’ sign and was crying that I had changed so much. What hurt me was that I had only lost something other than popularity it was…a friend.

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