My Spontaneous Speech

Assalamualaikum.

Yesterday, something really interesting happened to me at school.

This week, the form 4 students were having the orientation week. Which was technically for our preparation in choosing our interest field. In JESS, we were given choices to choose whether to be in the Pure Science stream or the Accounting Principles stream. Okay, not really actually. In JESS, all students are compulsory to take the Biology subject but we have to choose whether to take the Account class or not.

Frankly, I have thought about this since the December holidays. To take or not to take. Puzzled. Hmm, let the decision be a secret okay. :P

Yesterday was the last day of the orientation week. We were divided into big groups with all girls and boys separated. The teacher in-charged gave a random current topic to each group to be discussed. Then, we have to interpret the ideas into a simple mind-map. My group got the title "Masalah Merokok Dalam Kalangan Remaja Perempuan" (Smoking Problems Among Female Teenagers) which was kinda eyes-opener because it involved the girls who are the same-aged as us.

We started brain-storming everything and jot them down on the mahjong paper given with black and purple marker pens provided. After all the group works done, Puan Zanariah, our counselor  randomly picked any group to present their products. And she chose us.

We awkwardly made ourselves to the front of the assembly hall. We stood still in front of the whole batch of Form 4 students of 2013. At first, there's a little chaos to choose the presenter that would explain the whole thing. And guess who they chose? ME.

That was the moment that I realized that I have to give a SPONTANEOUS brief explanation about our topic, in front of EVERYONE.

I started with the greetings to all teachers and students. Then I stated our topic and the whole thing began. I explained each and every effects of smoking to the young ladies. I said things that I never planned to say but everyone seemed to understand very well. At a point, I was explaining about smoking would be such a humiliation to ourselves, family, society and the country when suddenly I accidentally stated that smoking is kinda okay with boys but not with girls. Then suddenly the audiences started making sound like "Uuuuu" and I was very surprised and told them that I retract my words and said it's actually not okay for boys to smoke too. I was kinda like desperately shouting and they started to laugh. Okay, that was pshhhh!

But, whatever. Everything went well that afternoon. And I was really, really hope that everyone understood everything. I finished my explanation and surprisingly, the whole audience gave us a thunderous amount of applause. Then, we all were allowed to go back home.

At home, my friends tweeted and texted me that my explanation at school was very good and powerful. Alhamdulillah. Actually, I wasn't expecting anyone to say those things to me. However, things have gone the way I wanted to. Alhamdulillah. It was indeed an interesting day.

"Get comfortable with being comfortable about your awesomeness"