I really don't like giving speeches, especially in front of all my friends, but I knew that once I entered my 2nd grade advanced English class period, It should. I knew that what was going to happen once I finished reading it wasn't going to be pretty. I could imagine that what I was about to read would follow me for the rest of my high school education at Nelsonville-York High School, with all my friends teasing me about it and my teacher, Ms. Maria, teaching her to everyone. future first-year lessons on what not to write. Seeing all of this happening, I knew I had to prepare myself to deal with the consequences that would come when I was done. Little did I know that this speech would be a major turning point in my high school career and affect the way I give speeches and talk to people. It was a Monday morning at Nelsonville-York High School; the weather was okay for a September morning. The school year had just started about 3 weeks before the day I was due to submit my paper. I had written about a word that best describes me and a song that best describes that word. Ms. Maria, our first year English teacher who loved all her students and helped anyone who needed it, gave us this assignment to help us prepare for the end of year assignment. The purpose of this article was to help us get used to writing articles and understand how we were supposed to write them. The word that best described me was random. I chose this word because in front of my friends I can sometimes be random. I knew I could choose any song that best described that word, since most songs are random. The mistake I made was trying to pick a song that only had twelve words, and that song was one of those... in the middle of a sheet..., but this Sheet taught me that speeches can be fun, you just have to laugh at the parts that people might find funny even if you think they are embarrassing. Over the next two years at Nelsonville-York, I gave several speeches to the class, and after my experience with this newspaper, I enjoyed each one. I also enjoyed reading monologues out loud to people, especially the funny ones, because I find it fun to read them in front of people now that the journal has really brought out my funny side. I usually think of this document as a dark part of my life, but I also think of it as a part of my life that really changed the way I write my documents, the way I talk to people, and the way I respond to what people say or say. TO DO. Luckily, I didn't have to give a song speech again until I reached my junior year of high school, but that's just another story..