Speech Contest
Last year, Keane and Holland got...sortta...roped into...doing a speech competition. The competition consists of native Japanese speakers giving a speech in English, and native English speakers giving a speech in Japanese. While we tried to get them ready for it, all of us were WILDLY unprepared for what the expectation actually was. For starters, the night before the competition, I received an email stating that the speeches were to be under one minute long. I, for some reason, thought they were supposed to be 3 minutes long. So we spent the evening frantically chopping their notes into pieces and putting them back together again so they wouldn't be too long. Then, the first thing that we realized upon arrival was that Keane and Holland were the only ones that hadn't memorized their presentations. Immediately they were panicking. I told them they were to just do their best, and that's all we could ask for. And they did. And th...