MY WORLD

Last Saturday I went to a speech contest in Vilajuïga. Our catalan teachers (Quim and Ofra) signed up Mireia Colomer and I. 

The contest consisted of: they give us two topics: "What would you like to be invented?" and "What historical moment would you like to have lived?". They gave these topics on Thursday, so we had 2 days (aprox.) to prepare these topics. Our teachers helped us to prepare a good introduction and how to prepare the presentation. Then, on the contest, we had to choose one of these topics randomly and we had to expose it to the contest jurors and talk about it 3 minutes (in the contest we can't see the time so it was so hard to control it). The 5 best people, will go to the final.

Finally, on Saturday was the contest, so in the early morning we were ready to start. We were 24 participants from all the high schools from Alt Empordà. They divided us in 2 groups, and me and Mireia were in the first group. We were all so nervous! The participants had to go into a room where the jurors were. Into that room only were the jurors, and the parents saw us through a camera so we didn't see them, but they could see us. The participants couldn't see the other participants, so they were outside.

When it was my turn, I was so nervous because we couldn't bring any support like powerpoint or a paper, but once I started to speak, I started to feel so much comfortable and even though I forgot some things, it was good.

While the second group was exposing, the first group went to visit the "Celler Espelt" and vice versa.

Then, the most interesting part was when, finally, the jursos said the finalists. We were 24 people and it only were 5 finalists so it was hard to pass into the final. But... I passed! At that moment, I didn't expect it because there were people who had prepared a lot and me, compared to them... I thought I couldn't win. But I passed into the final so I was so exited.

The jurors give us 5 minutes to prepare the exposition. We had to expose the theme that we didn't do the first time. The first time I did "What would you like to be invented?", so this time I did "What historical moment would you like to have lived?". Personally, I think that the first one was better than the second one, so that's why I passed into the final and with the second one I had no opportunities to win, but I never lost hope. 

I was the second one to do the exposition, so I heard 3 of the other 4 participants, and I was so suprised. They did all very well! 

Finally, after a long 10 minutes, the jurors gave the final results. And I was in fifth place. It won girl from Ramon Muntaner, Olma Giró. The girl did it so well! She deserved to win.

I was very happy with my result, because I never thought I could get into the final. I also won an award, all the finalists won something: spend a day in "Forum Impulsa", that it's in june in Girona. Also the first prize was a tablet; the second, a GoPro and the third, a headphones.

I think it was a very good experience that will help me in the future and, also, I made some friends and I hope that I will see them again!