Hi! Freshman extemper

[jess111]

I joined my high school speech and debate Team because one of my only skills,Talking. I've gone to 2 meetings so far, and today had my first practice extemp My question was:"Is Gleen Beck Bad for America?" I was able to talk for 6 minutes and 52 seconds. I see my self doing really well in this wonderful world of forensics, and hope that I can contrinbute to an already large group of people.

[prosergal]

That's fantastic! I'm glad you've fallen in love with forensics; it offered some of the best moments of my times in high school. Kudos!

[psettles24]

Wow that's great! My first few extemp speeches as a freshman weren't too great, so I'm glad you were able to have a good start. Just keep up the good work and the good attitude and you will get far

[CongressKiddie]

congrats! That's pretty impressive! If you like talking, and keep up with current events, you'll do great at extemp. and you'll love it as well.

[jess111]

Ive always been labeled as the one that watches to much cnn. So I keep With Current Events unsually well.Also I think it helps that Ive never had a fear of embarrising myself this is something that I fell I was born to do.

p.s. I have my first tournament in Bay City on December 5th

[I'm awkward!]

6:52? bravo!

As a novice extemper... one of my /tournament/ speeches went 2:30 (it was about farm subsidies... I didn't even know what those were). Fun fact: I got the 2 or 3 in that round, since I was entered in Novice Extemp. So basically... if you're already giving 7-minute speeches, you are on the right track.

Best advice I can give you: TUBS TUBS TUBS. They are your life. Hopefully you have teammates to help you maintain them... I split it with two upperclassmen, and I usually have to find ~7 on ~10 topics. Oh, and get a subscription to the Economist (I know it's hella expensive, apparently schoolteachers get a discount on it more than students do so ask your coach about it?).

So... IX or DX?