Yep, finally graduating high school in a week. I'm the valedictorian so they made me write a speech. I realize that a large chunk of the speech isn't mine, but I made them realize that... Anyway, tell me it's too long and it sucks or whatever you want, point out the dumb errors I missed, offer me another speech..
Speech on pretty pink....
Family, friends, and faculty, thank you for joining us tonight in celebrating the commencement of Howard High School of Technology?s class of 2004.
It was just about a month ago that I was officially told that I was the valedictorian for the class of 2004. At first I was very happy, just 5 years ago, I never thought I could ever be valedictorian, but here I stand today. The only downside was that I was going to have to give a speech at graduation. Those who know me will know that having the attention of more than 5 people on me at one time is enough to make me have a breakdown, but how bad how could it be?
Making a speech seemed simple enough, except I realized I had no idea what I wanted to talk about. Was it going to be about me and where I wanted to go in life or about the class and what we have done? Many suggestions were given, the number one being to keep it short as we all want to get out of here. Well, I?ll try to or at least read fast.
All the suggestions helped, but they just did not feel like they were me enough. Being the resourceful person I am, I searched the internet for other speeches that were given at graduation. It was a bit harder than it sounds, my results turned up many offers to have a speech written for me by some 3rd party that I did not know for the low price of only $30! Very tempting, would have saved me hours of racking my burned out brain.
I continued to dig deep and found graduation speeches of all kinds, lengths, and various topics. All of them good in their own ways. I was amazed to find a speech about a ?Calvin & Hobbes? comic strip, a quote from a book about yo-yoing, and even Snapple caps.
You heard me correctly, ?Snapple caps?. Snapple drinkers will know that under the lid of their drink is a ?Snapple Fact?. They range from physics to sports and just about anything else out there. The writer said he read a new Snapple cap each day and learned something new each day. One day he read a cap that said it was physically impossible to lick one?s own elbow. However, when he shared this so called fact with his friends, one said that?s not true and promptly licked her elbow! He quickly dismissed it as a physical anomaly and thought nothing more of it. A few weeks later, one of his friends decides to quiz him on a ?Snapple Fact? about the fastest tennis serve. Being such a tennis savvy guy, the writer replies quickly that it was 149 MPH by a Greg Rusedski at the Indian Wells Masters Series Tournament in 1998. However, the writer is stunned that the cap says 154 MPH, he couldn?t argue since it was a Snapple Fact. Later that day, he decides to research that tennis statistic and finds the he indeed was correct, the cap was wrong! His world came crashing down on him. The more he thought about it, he realized that many of the facts were quite illogical and would make more sense if they weren?t true, I mean how could mosquitoes have 47 teeth per Snapple Fact number 50 when humans have only 32? Then he thought back to what a Buddhist guest speaker had told them, ?Only believe what you have experience? which he now better understood.
The reason I told you this anecdote was for you to seize every opportunity that you get because if you don?t, then you will know nothing more than the Snapple caps tell you.
Speech on pretty pink....
Family, friends, and faculty, thank you for joining us tonight in celebrating the commencement of Howard High School of Technology?s class of 2004.
It was just about a month ago that I was officially told that I was the valedictorian for the class of 2004. At first I was very happy, just 5 years ago, I never thought I could ever be valedictorian, but here I stand today. The only downside was that I was going to have to give a speech at graduation. Those who know me will know that having the attention of more than 5 people on me at one time is enough to make me have a breakdown, but how bad how could it be?
Making a speech seemed simple enough, except I realized I had no idea what I wanted to talk about. Was it going to be about me and where I wanted to go in life or about the class and what we have done? Many suggestions were given, the number one being to keep it short as we all want to get out of here. Well, I?ll try to or at least read fast.
All the suggestions helped, but they just did not feel like they were me enough. Being the resourceful person I am, I searched the internet for other speeches that were given at graduation. It was a bit harder than it sounds, my results turned up many offers to have a speech written for me by some 3rd party that I did not know for the low price of only $30! Very tempting, would have saved me hours of racking my burned out brain.
I continued to dig deep and found graduation speeches of all kinds, lengths, and various topics. All of them good in their own ways. I was amazed to find a speech about a ?Calvin & Hobbes? comic strip, a quote from a book about yo-yoing, and even Snapple caps.
You heard me correctly, ?Snapple caps?. Snapple drinkers will know that under the lid of their drink is a ?Snapple Fact?. They range from physics to sports and just about anything else out there. The writer said he read a new Snapple cap each day and learned something new each day. One day he read a cap that said it was physically impossible to lick one?s own elbow. However, when he shared this so called fact with his friends, one said that?s not true and promptly licked her elbow! He quickly dismissed it as a physical anomaly and thought nothing more of it. A few weeks later, one of his friends decides to quiz him on a ?Snapple Fact? about the fastest tennis serve. Being such a tennis savvy guy, the writer replies quickly that it was 149 MPH by a Greg Rusedski at the Indian Wells Masters Series Tournament in 1998. However, the writer is stunned that the cap says 154 MPH, he couldn?t argue since it was a Snapple Fact. Later that day, he decides to research that tennis statistic and finds the he indeed was correct, the cap was wrong! His world came crashing down on him. The more he thought about it, he realized that many of the facts were quite illogical and would make more sense if they weren?t true, I mean how could mosquitoes have 47 teeth per Snapple Fact number 50 when humans have only 32? Then he thought back to what a Buddhist guest speaker had told them, ?Only believe what you have experience? which he now better understood.
The reason I told you this anecdote was for you to seize every opportunity that you get because if you don?t, then you will know nothing more than the Snapple caps tell you.
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