
Monday, December 8, 2008
How To Be A Good Friend

Monday, December 1, 2008
The World In Debate
Have you ever debate before? This is the first question that I was asked by Chulalongkorn debater when I was in first round. Dating back on November 7 I had a graet chance given by Ajarn Jenny to be the debater from Chandrakasem Rajabhat University to compete in The World Debate at ChulalongkornUniversity.
I got many new experiences and friends from there and there were many things that make various feelings to me.
In my team there were 3 debaters, it consits of my senoir, my junior, and me. In the first day when we were at Chula, it's just debate workshop and there was no competition. We stayed at The Twin Towers Hotel at the first night and we worked hard to gether. Before the first round, there was a mock round that is like the round for trying and we met with MUIC A which is the team from Mahidol university international college, I saw that they speake English fluently that make us a little fear, but we are fearless So, for the result we lost in the mock round and I know it because of the first time of our team in debate. For the first round we met with CU A the best team from Chula, it's the funny thing because they've ever taugh me at my university, for the result we lost Chula. Loosing for two rounds could make us hopeless ,but we didn't give up. In the third round we competed with the team from Khonkhen University and we got the motion about morality and at last we won, we were so happy and hopeful about the next round. This was the first vitory of our team, after that we called to tell our teacher and she was so glad with us. After I went to the hotel I asked myself that why many people who joined this debate speak English well and what about me? In the third round, we met with SWING team which was the mixed debaters team,and we won again because we have more self-confidence. The adjudicators in the fourth round make the funny to my team that he aked us if we are Filipinnos and we say "no" and he said that why your accent is like that? we replied that because of our teacher is the Filipinnos who is our beloved teacher. For the fifth round, we met with Thamamasat university and we lost, so at the evening we had dinner with all debaters and they annouced the team that pass though next round, we couldn't pass and it's OK because two times for win is enough and make us satisfy with it.
I got many good experiences from this debate and I'll adapt it to use in my university. for the only one thing that I see others speak English fluently and I want to be like that, so I will practice more and more in speaking English with my friends in my university and I hope next year I'll be there again and get two more victory for my team.
The Way I Am


