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Fahad Aldakheel

Final Project

A Life Experience

As an international students English language is not hard but the hard part of it is how to deliver a speech that will inspire many people.

In this class I learned a lot from it. How to start a talk and how to make people focus with you and how to end one. Me as student who came from a family who worked in the social media and I learned from them how to listen to people and to accept the other ideas weather I liked it or not. In this semester I met a lot of people and most of them are professional in this class, in other hand they have more experience than me. I judged in this class and I went to a tournament to compete with other people. And that’s it self an experience. Losing for me is not an option so if I lost in one time I make sure I came again and try to win with it.

Berkeley tournament is one of the amazing time this semester. When I entered the building I knew I am not the only one who wants to win but at the same time I tried to be calm and make other people think I have a lot of experience on this so I might make them unfocused. In the beginning my first round was a persuasive and I was double entered so at the time I told the other judge that I am a double entered I was a couple minutes late so when I entered the class there was other student delivering there speech I didn’t know that was wrong so the first note the judge gave me is “ don’t walk during speech”. He also said I talked so fast and this is a problem that I face in my daily life because with my first language we talk fast and I always try my best to be calm. He also didn’t like my gesture he said I should put my hands by my side. And also he said I look sharp, I didn’t get it very much but I think he means in a good way. So after delivering my speech I met some people who were competing with me and they liked my idea and they I am delivering it. I was so happy when they said it because I was thinking if the people who I compete with liked my idea so maybe the judge will like it too. After delivering my speech I went to the other round which was a Impromptu I did really good on it and he liked it as he told me if I need to hear some advice. He told me it was very good but I spoke very fast and he recommended a channel on TV to watch and learn English and also when I talked to the people who were competing with me he recommended the same channel on TV. He also wrote a comment “good, but hard to understand but not too hard to understand. Good job” I am confused about the comment I didn’t know am I hard or not to understand. In the second round when I delivered my persuasive speech. The judge wrote a comment that he think I was lying with my statistics he thought that 5% is the chance from claifornia to win the finals he thinks that seems wrong but maybe the source I brought for the statistics wasn’t improving enough. And when we talked as a group after we all delivered our speeches he didn’t comment about it. It hurts me from inside when I read the comment about my sites and they think it is fake. Also in my 2nd round in impromptu, I got the same topic as my first and I was very scared and thought it was a trap or he wants to know if I will cheat or not so I told him and he give me other topic so I prepared in 55 second and delivered a 7 minute speech. He said I should “come at from behind the table” which I didn’t get it very well, I explained my points well.

Finally I learned a lot from this tournament and this class. I had some problems that effected me as my grandfather past away in the middle of semester and it was a really hard time for me but I am still competing until I win. And the notes I got it will help me in the future.