Recently the senior threes took part in their first ever speech competition. First, we watched examples of
high quality speeches and discussed what makes a good speech.
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| Practice run in small groups |
Then the students chose their own topics, wrote their own speeches, had
a practice run in class and then the final speech that was judged and
graded. Their were very excited by the
independence afforded to them with this project and topics ranged from
Christianity to genocide to basketball to fashion. It included personal stories
and research. Although, the internet is not currently working on campus for
students to use it, I offered my services for computer research so lack of
knowledge would not hold them back from an interesting subject.
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The students rarely get their picture taken but love when they get the opportunity.
After our practice speeches them all huddled together and posed for me. |
I was quite impressed by the final products! The top three students were chosen from both senior three classes and they competed against top senior three students from another Nyamata secondary school.
Also, as a fun little cultural moment, I went to town to buy
some prizes for the final competition and I settled on simple lollypops and
biscuits. When I started picking out
twelve candies, the man in charge of the stand burst
out laughing and continued until I had paid and walked. Buying in bulk is not
at all common here. When I had bought
the biscuits earlier, the vendor asked if I was going to sell them in the
street as he could think of no other sensible
reason to buy so many. Quite the opposite
of Costco loving USA!
-Kristin
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