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Speech Contest!

So, this past sunday I did the 19th annual Arizona state Japanese language speech contest. Well, the weather was extremely hot; but the Japanese friendship garden was a very nice place to hold the competition. It was a long day of speeches, but very enjoyable. Guess what. Marty Friedman was there, the former guitarist of Megadeath. That was pretty awesome, but I didn't realize who he was until the day after, when everything clicked in my head. Anyway, when I first got there, I was insanely nervous, but after some walking around, I was able to calm down a bit. By the time it got to my group, I started to get nervous again; but once my speech started, I started to relax and go with the flow. After all the speeches were done, there was a tea ceremony, and then a long wait until the awards. When it came time for awards, I became nervous again; but, all my hard work paid off. I got second place in my category out of fourteen people. I was really happy, and I won some really cool goodies. I'll post back soon with more details. see you then.