04/04/2006: "'Let the anger change the world and set us all free.'"

"I cannot forgive the ones who tried to steal our dreams."

(now, these are the lessons we really should be teaching our children)

Turns out that I was not only feeling sick, but I was sick this weekend, especially on Friday. There's not much to say about that, other than that it wasn't pretty. I was feeling better and better over the weekend, but it seems like I hit a certain level that I'm stopping at. Just feel generally "not well", but no longer full-blown "sick". This is rather annoying.

Better yet, my performance at the speech contest is in 4 days. To say that I'm nervous would be an understatement. I only have the first 5th memorized, and even that I'm not too comfortable with. Over the next few days, I need to cement it in my head, mostly through reading it nonstop, and reciting it as much as possible. If I can find an empty classroom on campus this week, I find it helps to stand in front of a room (albeit empty) and practice a few times. At this point, I'm not really sure why I signed up for the contest in the first place (though, for participating, I'll get an extra 5% bonus points in class and a free t-shirt with the Japanese Speech Contest logo on it, or something). Too late to call it quits, though.. and even if I could, I wouldn't want to. I don't really feel like doing it, but.. it's for the experience, right?

I should get going to study my speech for an hour or so before going to class. Wish me luck.

(gah.. I need to update MN soon. Been too busy on the weekends)


Jason