Blog 10

In the beginning of the year, I told myself that I would do better in school. I told myself that I would make the honor roll. I haven't been able to fulfill that goal. I told myself in the beginning of the year that I would work my hardest in basketball and be able to obtain a basketball scholarship this year. I have been able to accomplish that. I now have 5 scholarships to 5 different schools and counting. My next goal is to be able to get a scholarship from a school I like.  I tried to improve my study habits and my work ethics but it wasn't enough. I wasn't able to get my goal academically for the year and it was sad for me. Another goal I set when I came here was to go to my dream school UCSB. The coach of the school called me a couple weeks ago. He called asking me how everything was going and how I was doing. He then told me that I couldn't receive a scholarship because my grades were not good enough. I was heartbroken when I heard that news. I initially came to this school So I could go to UCSB. They were looking at me before I came to the school and they told me they were ready to offer and the scholarship would be for 2015 so I was set for where I wanted to go, when i found out I couldn't go I literally broke out in tears. My main goal right now is to find a school that I like, peferably In the west coast. I have interests from Portland state and long beach state. Hopefully they offer me because I would really love to go to the school. Especially to school I'm the west coast. I'm

Reflection

The speech that I presented was titled "the luxury of parents". I thought of this speech because of an incident that happen with one of my close friend. He was going to a party and he asked his mother if he could go and she said no, like most parents would and he proceeded to tell her "I hate you, I wish you were dead". This really got to me and got me thinking of parents and I decided to use this as ammunition for my speech. I thought I delivered my speech relatively well. There were some parts I could have fixed like my posture and pace but overall i think it was pretty good. It's a lot easier for me to improv on the spot rather than read it off a screen so that was pretty hard for me and took me some time to get used too. You can really tell the difference when I do either. I think I am more powerful and confident when I improvise because I make it sound like my own. I has to really work on pacing myself because the speech was on the screen but it was scrolling down at a certain speed so that was also difficult to get used too but it helped because I was able to learn how to pace and time my self for speeches in the future to come. This whole presentation helped me in my speech delivery skills and I'm a lot more confident with it now,

Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2D-tdHl3I4&feature=youtu.be