moment in time writing

This is my moment in time writing about when I had to say my speech. Something that was challenging was that we had to write in the present tense. We also had to describe the feeling instead of saying it. Another thing that we had to do was to use paragraphs.         

Speech writing

Everyone is seated and waiting for my speech to start
I am sweating like crazy. I start to get my cue cards ready and in order. I shake in fear. My heart pumps so hard it feels like a drum kit. I am the first person to speak today. Then Matua Dylan says my name “Joshua you’re up”. I stand up and take to the front of the classroom. I see all these eyes just waiting for my speech to start. I can feel the sweat on my palms as I wait until Matua Dylan says I can start.

I can hear silence as I am about to start. Then I begin. In the first two sentences I can see everyone look like they were enjoying my speech which made me feel good. Their response makes me think that most of the people like my speech. I am motivated to finish it now.

I’m midway through and everyone is having a good time. There are giggles everywhere around the class. It makes me think that my speech is really good. As I keep going, I can see all of these faces turn from not being interested into being really happy. They all want to keep listening



All of the feelings that I felt before just all disappeared

Joshua