My First Debate Experience

For the whole first eighteen years in my life, I never joined any debate teams. One reason was that I didn’t like to quarrel with others. I found it much more interesting to be an audience and watch those two teams quarrel. I never thought about joining a debate team, dressing up, debating with others in English. But, it just happened last Thursday.
In fact, after the moment when I raised my hand and entered for the interclass debate, I couldn’t help asking myself: why did you have to be that person? You didn’t have any experience, even in Chinese! There were so many people who speak English better than you, why not just let them participate? But as Ms. Yap said, it was a good opportunity to practice my English. What’s more, I don’t want to give this opportunity to others, even though I can’t speak English well.
During the whole week, I tried to find some materiel about the debate topic. Actually I did get a lot, but the question was that I didn’t know how to get the point. I had read more than 10 thousand words in English, but I still couldn’t come up with any argument. Then our debate team had a meeting, I finally got a point. I was grateful for the other three persons in our debate team that they let me prepare for the first or the last to speak, which was the easiest one.
Then the important interclass debate day came. It was also the first day in my life that I dressed up, went out and let everyone see me. I felt very uncomfortable and, of course, very hot. Then we had the debate with group 6. We didn’t win but I could feel that both debaters and audience had fun that day.
So that was it, my first debate experience. When I told to my friends that I joined the team, they said: ‘It’s so cool!’ But they didn’t saw me sleeping late at 3 o’clock, they didn’t saw my embarrassment when I couldn’t speak fluently in front of others, they didn’t saw that I spent my whole afternoon in the library.