Creative Writing: My Summer Off

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ready for
me. So I thumbed through the course book, singing a chorus of no's until I
arrived on the Debate and Public Speaking page. There resided a large
photograph of a boy confidently standing behind an ornate podium, clearly frozen
in the middle of some captivating and influential argument. I read the passage
describing the course and was immediately sold. How could a stuffy math class
or a trivial course in art compare to “a course that teaches students the skills
and techniques of competitive debate, culminating in a week long tournament?”
So I filled out the forms and mailed them and before I knew It I was sitting in
a lecture hall, learning the skills and techniques of competitive debate.
As I have said, I was only fifteen and perhaps this debating course was
not yet ready for me either. I was both the youngest and least experienced of
the lot. Little could be done to gain ground on the former adversity, but I set
about rectifying th latter by filling a notebook ...

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needed further confirmation
of my imminent loss. So I sat there In my chair adding to the list as the judge
announced that each of us had garnered the same number of points, but, because
ties were not allowed, he had awarded the debate to me. I was dumbfounded but I
concealed my disbelief so the judge would think me deserving of his accolade.
When I shook hands with my opponent, it felt different than it had previously,
maybe it is because this time I was giving the hand shake rather than receiving
it. I had taken the grand prize and that hand shake was merely his consolation
gift. I erased each of the points I had added to the list, I was becoming
better at debate, but I was not ...

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