Burdens Off!

Assalamualaikum and good afternoon everyone!

I just finished today's classes at 3 p.m just now and currently relaxing in the room. As I mentioned earlier, I will have my persuasive speech on Monday. However, madam decided to do only 13 persons on that day since there are 25 of us in the class. She picked our names at random so everyone has to be prepared. There were two sessions, one was on Monday and the second was this morning. I wasn't called during the first session, so obviously I would be called during the second one. So this morning the class started at 9 a.m, and I was the third person to be called to give the speech. At first I was quite nervous, I mean before stepping into the class. Once I got into the class, my nervousness has eased and I felt a bit relaxed. When my name was called, I went straight to the front and started to give my speech. The duration of my speech was about 8 mins and a half. Madam said I spoke a bit fast but the information is interesting. Oh yes, my persuasive speech topic is "Why everyone should know how to cook". Anyways, I'm glad that everything went well even though I'm down with flu and sore throat and I am relieved that I'm done with the speech.

Our next task after the speech would be a forum and a debate. We will do a forum first, then only the debate. If I'm not mistaken. I am excited about the debate, but not for the forum. Just so you know, forum is so boring and old school. It's like a discussion about a given topic and there are 3 or 4 panels in a forum and they will give opinions about the topic. On the other hand,debate is about arguing something. You don't get to choose whether to support or to oppose, as it is already given to you. The motion (topic) is also given to you right before the debate starts. That's basically how debate works. Next week, on Monday, we will probably be given some infos about the forum and maybe on Wednesday the forum will start. Since we don't have this ELC 092 paper in the final exam, the lecturer has to assign us with this kind of presentations to assess us. After all, this subject is all about speaking in public. 

This Sunday, our campus will have an inter-class debate. Each class, both tesl and law has to send two teams, one for debat and another for debate. That means, each team will go against another class in league. So the first round would be the preliminary, then straight to quarter final, semi final, and lastly final. My two classmates and I will be representing our class for the debate team, but the team for debat is yet to be confirmed. I really hope that our team will manage to get through at least semi final, at least. The event is organised by my club, which is Kelab Debat dan Orator UiTM Kuantan. This event gives an opportunity for the students to unleash their talents in speaking in front of the public, and also to boost their self-confidence to speak. I know so many of us here have the talent, but they are just too shy to show it. I hope by having this event, they could overcome their shyness and show their speaking skills to everyone.

Till then, may Allah bless xx

PS : I had this post pending for more than an hour before posting it on my blog. So good evening everyone!