speech

In all my years of writing I've never been able to speed through a speech with ease. I've always struggled to write speeches for school projects, but last year, being a senior in high school on the ice hockey team; we all had to deliver a speech at the end of the year banquet to all the parents and younger players about my four years playing on the team. However, opposed to a school speech, I was actually writing about something I was truly passionate about, something I knew a lot about and really cared about compared to writing a speech about why George Washington was the best president of the United States. First off, I had to recognize that my audience was different than the average school speech to a teacher. My audience was a bunch of high school kids, all of them my good friends, and their parents. So while I wanted to make my speech include four years worth of memories ranging from very inappropriate to just simple funny jokes, I needed to make sure parents would approve of some of the experiences that occurred. Thus began my eliminating process, I had to exclude many different stories that parents would find inappropriate. By the end of it, I had a five minute long speech full of funny stories.