Volume 10 Extracurricular Activities
In addition to club activities, students will also organize some activities on their own, such as Singles' Day, Halloween, hometown associations and so on. At that time, there were no shopping sprees, and there were all kinds of dinners and parties. More often than not, the school will organize activities that the student council requires every class to participate in.
After all, I am a freshman, and I am full of freshness about everything in college. After a few months of contact, I became an active member of the class, so I was asked to form a debate team with three other female classmates to participate in the college debate competition. The competition schedule is divided into preliminary round, semi-final round and final round. In the first two fights, after a lot of preparation, I managed to drop the chain at the crucial moment. During the debate, I easily fell into the trap of the other party and became overwhelmed. Fortunately, the debate topic was in our favor, and later, it was completely relied on the three female classmates to turn the tide and the "face" buff of the ministers of the student union, and we made it to the finals with difficulty.
Especially in the rematch, I lost the face of the whole class. In order to show the momentum of the team, they all had to say slogans before the opening, and each of the four debaters said one sentence. As the last one to say the slogan, it was better to be able to show the momentum, so I asked everyone if I could snap my fingers handsomely before talking about the taste, so I made a demonstration. When I practiced, I was very skillful in my movements, snapping my fingers and hitting them louder and louder. Everyone said that when the time comes, they will definitely be domineering and shocking the audience. However, everything is subject to change.
The audience, host, and judges all sat down at the semi-finals, and we also walked to their respective positions, and the debaters opposite had already shouted slogans and sat down, and we started with a debate:
"Unity!"
"Professional!"
"Invulnerable!"
When it was my turn, I handsomely stretched out my right hand, and my thumb slashed hard from my middle finger to my index finger, and as a result, the scene was quiet, time was frozen at that moment, and the scene was awkward for a while. I seem to be able to see a barrage full of screens:
"How's snapping your fingers?"
"How can it be different from the script?"
"What is this guy doing?"
"At the critical moment, the chain fell again."
"Are there assassins in ambush on either side?"
"Someone, escort!"
"What is this angry action for?"
"I'm afraid this man isn't a fool, is he?"
Although it was only 0.5 seconds, it felt like a year was long, and finally I shouted the slogan:
“Perfect!”
This embarrassing scene made me feel embarrassed, and I was instantly defeated by my opponent in terms of momentum, and there was no master of the six gods during the game. So much so that I later proposed to replace me, but the three female classmates still chose to believe me and let me continue to stay in the team and face the final together.
The final was unusual, and the organizing committee required all to wear formal attire. This stumped me, where can I borrow a suit? Especially my short stature can't match the right Northeast classmates. If we can't borrow it, we can only buy it. From childhood to adulthood, my mother accompanied me to buy clothes, what waist and bust circumference, what bargaining, not at all. In the end, I found my aunt at the same table, and their family was already in the clothing business in the mall, so they accompanied me to buy the first suit in my life. She said that the black one was too ugly, and she either sold insurance or the underworld when she wore it, and finally bought a navy blue one. Of course, the suit must be matched with leather shoes, and accompanied by my aunt, I bought a pair of leather shoes at the lowest price.
I don't know where it got out, but soon everyone in the college knew that there was a "Biao Ha'er" who bought a suit for the college's debate tournament. However, after putting on the suit, I do still look a little like a dog, and I am much more energetic. Before the race, I wore my tie in front of the mirror in my dorm room again and again, undoing even the slightest crease. Although it was warm in the house, it was also very cold outside in the Tohoku at night, so I put on my jacket and went to the arena with my brothers.
Because it represents class honor, the whole class is there, including the green bow girl. Wawa came to help me, and she sat with Eric and the rest of our dorm. I have to admire Mr. Liu, his enthusiasm caught me by surprise. Because I was going to play, I had to take off my down jacket that was on the outside. Mr. Liu picked up the green bow girl to help me hold my clothes and mobile phone, so she folded my clothes and hugged me tightly in her arms. Although she sat in the last row, I could see those movements clearly with my 400-degree myopia. At that moment, my heart was really melting!
The final was very exciting, everyone cooperated tacitly, and I lived up to expectations, once suppressed the opponent with a loud voice and Ling Ran's momentum. However, this time Lady Luck was not on our side, mainly because the debate was too bad for us, and we still lost the game after all. But I'm very happy, and I have to thank Mr. Liu for his divine assistance.
Not long after the debate competition, the drama festival will begin, and each class will have to rehearse the program. As someone with a wealth of experience in stage performances, I naturally took the initiative to ask for help. For this kind of drama, the judges' favorite must be the drama and positive energy. Spoof is purely self-entertaining, it is completely impossible to get on the stage, if you put a click on the Internet may be possible, but it is impossible to win awards. So, I wrote a script according to the sketch of the New Year's Day show in high school, and happily handed it to the class leader of Dabiao and asked him to take it to the class committee for discussion. However, everyone still tends to spoof the style, so they ordered a spoof version of "Liang Zhu" from the Internet and revised the script. Although I was a little disappointed that my script was killed, since it was a collective decision, I can't argue about anything. In order to increase the "laughing fruit", I created a "dragon suit" character, and all I needed to do was run from one side of the stage to the other when the curtain changed, and then shouted: "The next day~!" For this revision, it was unanimously approved by the class, and they all felt that this was the finishing touch. This comforted me, who was a little lost and grumpy.
As expected, this kind of show can't even make it to the rematch. On the contrary, my "dragon suit" was remembered by the student council president, and when we met him later, he said, "Aren't you the dragon suit?" Wawa's class rehearsed a semi-reminiscence skit in which the whole class participated in the background of the "Wenchuan earthquake", and won the second place. A class of the same major as us adapted a magical realism sketch based on "Peacock Flying Southeast", won the first place, and later won the school's award, and was even invited to perform commercially. So, the experience is still useful. However, the mentality of everyone is different, some students are like me who go to win awards, while others are just for performance and entertainment, which may be the difference between an inclusive university and a high school that only pursues grades.