"It's evening of 1 September..I'm taking on official
clothes, check my plan of a speech and go out of the room. It's my
first debate ever and I feel a little bit nervous...
Our
thesis was "Every person enters an NGO because of personal profit". My
team was opposite, so that's made a play harder. The proposite team
was a really strong and they had good arguments. The question from the
audience was great. But.. we've lose this debate.
But after all debate was a great one!
I really like it, because of interesting discussion, new knowledge and experience.
Hope my next debate will be even better."
On our Oxford debate, the majority of the international group was the audience. From my perspective it wasn't just passive participating. We had to follow what the speakers said, because in the round second and third we had to add own arguments and ask the questions. It was a great exercise for practising my memory and attention. I'm sure that this skill will be helpful in the future.
Agnieszka - audience
On the official and the preparatory debates I was a secretary. I had to measure time, give signals to the speakers went their time was coming to an end or ended. While debating I really was stressed because I was in centrer audience was looking at me. I'm shy person and I'm not used to public speaking. Despite this I became more confident.
Dominika - secretary
