Speech Competition

Howie and I's Monday night student is a 12 year old girl.  She has been to the US and has very good English for her age.  Her teacher chose her to participate in a city wide English speech competition this Sunday.

On Monday night, I proofread her speech and helped her with pronunciation and pacing.  Howie helped her with hand motions and facial expressions (very important during speeches here).  I'd say all this took about 40 minutes.

Wednesday night, her mother calls us to say that the English teacher thought the speech was too pessimistic (the title was "The Older I Grow, the Lonelier I Am" after all).  Her mother asks Howie if we can write a new speech for her...  And can we have it finished in 30 minutes!  "Okay", Howie says, "No problem."  We start writing.

I'm happy to say that we completed a 2 minute long speech in about 20 minutes entitled "The Older I Grow, the More Excited I Become".  Our student's father showed up a little before we finished.  He copied it to his flash drive and took it home for her.

She will come to our house again tonight (even though she has a fever and will be working on the speech all day today at home since her teacher excused her from school for this) and again on Saturday night.