Laura Comments On the Commencement Speech

We had done our commencement speech last Tuesday. Most of the feedbacks from the judges and lecturers are saying that we did not complete the objective of commencement speech as we forgot to include the planning for our future as the conclusion.

I found that most of us only focused on telling the story that happened during our college life. I admit that I am one of them. However, I believe that some of us planned to talk about our future but we were too nervous during the speech and had just skipped that part.

Ann Nie's speech had impressed me the most by telling us how she improved herself throughout the college life. I think that she was very brave because she used her weakness which is the language barrier as her topic and shared this with all the audiences include the judges.

Actually I faced the same situation as Ann Nie. When I first came to this college and entered the first class, the first classmate I met was Jasmine and I think most of us know that she is a so called 'Banana'. She can speak extremely good English but her Mandarin is poor to the max.(Sorry ya Jasmine ;-D)

So when Ann Nie gave her speech, I can totally understand her feeling and I admired that she had the encourage to talk about this in front of so many people.

Last but not least, I want to tell that this subject does help me a lot because it teaches me to talk bravely in front of people. Miss Cheryl had gave us a lot of chances to train ourselves in speaking and giving speech or presentation.

You did very well, Ann Nie=) Let's improve ourselves together!!