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Ask friend if I could say thank you
I wanted to say thank you to my school, to my teachers, and to my classmates for all the help they've given me throughout the year, so I asked my friend, the school president, if it would be possible to. -
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Timespan
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Friend arranges it so I can
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Write speech in English
Because english absoultly cannot be translated directed to Latvian, and that is the only way I knew how to speak if I traslated what I want to say in english to latvian. So I wrote my speech in english -
Friend translates speech
My friend took my speech and helped me translate it so that it would make sense in Latvian. -
Practice speech
I sat in the park with my friend for hours practicing my speech so that I would be sure to not mess it up or mispronounce any words -
The nerves set in
As I was walking to school in the morning I started getting really nervous -
More nerves
At the final assembly, right before I was supposed to go up, I started really freaking out. -
Speaking
The time came to actually start speaking, and as I got going, I got comfortable -
Standing ovation
As I finished I got a standing ovation from the whole school -
Confidence
I know now that because I was able to speak in front of a large crowd not in my native language, I will have no problems with speaking in front of people in ever again