Current Affairs

At school we have this thing called "Current Affairs" held every Friday which is a sort of debate in either English or Chinese(not Malay though) between anywhere from 4-7 panellists. Besides them, a host, 2 student observers and the whole class is involved. Each panellist will play a role set by the teacher concerning the issue at hand. After the debate, the class will then participate in providing their views on the matter. After the whole thing has ended, the student observers will give feedback on each panelist.

So, anyway, I was one of the panellists last Friday but the worksheet telling us what our roles were was only given out on Thursday. What's more, I left the worksheet and my notes at school! So when the CA session started ... well, let's just say that I was pretty unprepared, even though that's an understatement. Worse still, I realised that I was supposed to play the role of some sort of Dean for Student Care, advocating a policy that students should only wear black-rimmed specs! If I was a student or parent opposing this rule, at least that would've been okay but...

Luckily or not, I was the third speaker so I managed to get my speech in order by the time it was my turn to speak. Strangely enough, Wei Zhi, the big hairdo guy, was the last speaker but only managed to say one sentence because he was unprepared too.

I hope I get to be a panellist again. Not because of the harrowing experience but because if I get it right I might be able to get quite a lot of ACE points(sort of like credits).