Menard Speech

Menard Speech Test.

Hello, everyone. My name is jinwoo kim. Thank for gods who give me an opportunity to give my address, or personal narrative for the first time in this class. I ask you to understand me if I make some mistakes during talking regarding that I am so nervous because I’m the initial one to start this speech test.

 Before starting my speech, I want to ask you very, very small things which is very fundamental or basic to survive in KMLA. Who has TOEFL score? If you have TOEFL score, please raise your hands up! One, two, three….. I guess all people in this classroom have TOEFL score. How about you, Mr. Menard? Yes, you have! Absolutely!

 The reason I ask you this question is the topic that I will tell you from now on is related to ‘ETS TOEFL Test’. The Test of English as a Foreign Language always annoys me and makes me feel terrible and stressful. And, there is no doubt that you guys are also suffered by the score of TOEFL……

 Let’s get into the point. Frankly, I don’t have TOEFL score. Even I’ve never taken the TOEFL test before. You know why? You may laugh at me, if I tell you the reason. I actually registered the TOEFL test twice a year ago. However, I could not take the test because of my terrible mistakes.

 For the first time when I go to the test center, I was rejected to go into the test center. Oh! How terrible it is. The expiration period of my passport had been over before 3 days. I remember the first Toefl test day is July 8^th, 2012 and the expiration day of my passport is July 5^th,. Because of 3 days, or 72 hours, or 2160 minutes, or 129,600 seconds, I just could not take the TOEFL test and blow my 170 dollars off. I am so shocked of the fact I cannot take the test. In addition the fear that I can be spanked by mother overwhelmed me. So I cannot go back to my home immediately and stand in the center of the park of the university for 2 minutes watching webtoons and observing people.

 And the second time I just made sure that my passport is not over the day of expiration. Without any concerns, I went to the test center which is totally different place from the last place where I tried to take the test. That is the start of the problem. Believe or not, I just took the different bus which ran to the opposite direction. Again, I just blew my 170 dollars off. Wow!!!!   Actually this time my mother spanked me…… without hesitation.

 Eventually I have no TOEFL score yet. It is may be because my English ability is not enough to get the score, or because I just blew my 340 dollars off.

 This two mistakes which made my mother very angry and made my 340 dollars go off in to the air and make me feel inferior to the friends in KMLA, taught me that there will no success without preparation. In other words, without preparation, there will be no success.

 I planned to take the TOEFL test next month, and I hope that I can get the score which can fulfill my mind. In this time I will never make mistakes that can blow up my precious money. 

  Thank you for listening my speech or stupid stories!!

Personal Narrative -- Stage fright is nothing; Thank for KMLA

Personal Narrative. – ‘ Stage fright is nothing -----thank for KMLA

Have you ever heard of ‘stage-fright’ or have you ever seen the people who are anxious about their ‘stage-fright’? If your answer is ‘no’, now you can say ‘yes’, since I am the one who are concerned myself about the ‘stage fright’. Actually, I enjoy giving presentation or address in front of the public, but the problem occurs when I go up to the stage to show my talent such as dancing and singing. Every time when I dance or sing in front of many people, I just forget the sequence of dance or lyrics of song. This makes me avoid everything related to the performance on the stage.

The story that I will tell you from now is about the performance that I showed in front of the KMLA students a week ago.

In KMLA, there is a few customs that we have to keep. Most of them are kind of unwritten law that is made by prior seniors. For example, in ‘Freshman Welcome Party’, some freshmen have to profess their love to the freshgirl whom they love in front of the whole students of KMLA. Additionally, some freshmen, not ‘freshgirls’, have to dance with dressed up as a woman in the party.  Indeed, I had became a member of the team that dance with dressed up as a woman because of the 2^nd grade student’s recommendation. I really hesitated to participate in the member, but with the senior’s recommendation and advice, I decided to dance in ‘Freshman Welcome party’

 The practice was really hard. The song that we would dance to is ‘Poison’ of the ‘Secret’. Since it is sexy dance, and there are so many parts that I have to do sexy wave. Those parts are the hardest parts for me. And the fact that I have to do such things in front of the whole students in front of whole KMLA students really annoyed me. I really consider, but the teammates and seniors gave cheer to me. That is motivation and impetus for me to continue our project.

When the D-day came, again, I became so nervous that I could not do anything but practicing.

It was the first time after entering elementary school to dance in front of many people. Having seen my nervousness, the senior who came from the same middle school said me that there is nothing that I have to do except enjoying it. That really helped me relieve my nervousness. Though many people encouraged me as I explained and made me relive, I just could not stop worrying about making mistake. With practicing and being concerned about the mistake that I might make, the time that I have to perform finally came. When I was going up to the stage, I could not think about anything. And, when the music starts, I moved my body with instinct. I cannot remember what I did on the stage even now, but I can just remember that there is a big, big applause and a big, big cheer. How incredible it is! Everybody is applauding and cheering for us who perform the sexy dance.

After the party, many students said that we had done the most impressive performance compared to other whole performances with the words that I did really good job. For this performance, we became really famous and seniors really like us. Moreover because of the performance we did, we get some benefits and we apply to the club that we want to go.

This performance and this experience will not lead me to overwhelm my whole ‘stage-fright’.  That’s very true that I cannot deny. However, through this experience, I have some belief that I could also overwhelm my ‘stage fright’. Thank for the teammates who danced together, and thanks for the seniors who recommend me to dance, and thank for the KMLA where I could get the opportunity to overwhelm my stage-fright which I cannot conquer for 6 years.