Yeah, I know. @_@ According to my brother they dedicate the whole class to it, for two weeks. (Night school on Wednesdays, 6:00 to 8:45.) What's worse is there's THREE of them. An Informative speech which is where I guess you just tell people about something (I'm an expert on nothing, so I'm hosed there), A Persuasive speech (where you gotta get people to agree with whatever your side of the argument is, and which I'm particularly not looking forward to since pretty much anything you want to take a stand on is going to be divisive and I'm not into the whole conflict thing. Additionally, see my note for Informative speech) and I don't even know what the third kind is. I mean, we do get to pick our topics from what I hear for the big speeches (sometimes during class, you apparently have to do Impromptu speeches about whatever subject you get handed for two minutes).
Part of my problem is that I'm pretty laidback and other than the few franchises I've attached myself to (Resident Evil, Castlevania, Discworld, Agatha Christie, etc.) I really don't give a crap about much of anything, and certainly nothing that's popular in these rural parts. >.> (I don't farm, I don't drink... much, I don't go to church, I don't watch TV or 'good' movies, excluding wrestling I find sports boring - especially Nascar >.> - and I haven't chased tail since high school when I realized it would kind of be a bad idea to knock a girl up before I have a good income and found a woman I'd like to hang around with for more reasons than that. I'm not ready to settle down yet anyway.
) I dunno. Maybe I could talk about cats, Lord knows there's enough of them running about the place. I might could work with assigned topics because then I would at least
have a topic. :3
Frankly I don't really see the use of this class, for me personally anyway. I can't think of a situation other than my retirement - assuming I've been with whatever place of employment for a long time AND am fairly popular AND people would want me to for whatever reason - that I would need to give one in the careers I'm interested in (librarian's what I really want, but I'll settle for something useful). Whatever, though. It's needed to graduate so I'm going to have to tackle it sooner or later. I just don't want to. :\