My speech is less than 2 weeks away. I was told it was supposed to be 3 minutes long so had an awesome speech prepared, had everything I wanted to say and then get a letter last week stating the speech is now 2 minutes long. Pros and cons to it -- had to shorten my speech up, but one less minute I have to be up there freaking out.
I have the speech memorized and I should be able to say it stumble free by the 10th -- I hope. You get docked by judges if you go over and some dock if you have your speech with you. Depending on how fast I say it -- I'm either right at 2 minutes or have 7-10 seconds to spare. I'll probably say it super fast when I am up in front of everyone so I shouldn't have any problems going over.
I wrote it so I could change it up a bit as I catch myself saying old parts of my speech before I revised it and it still sounds well.
On top of the speech there is a judging question where we pull a question out of a hat. I don't want to pull a Carrie Prejean moment or anything like that Miss Teen USA clip that was posted. I doubt I will, but that's hard when you don't know what any of the questions are.
I'm going up against one other woman. I have a 50/50 shot of winning.
Nervous doesn't even begin to tell you how I feel. I have like 20 people coming to support me and I don't know if we will all fit. Our pageant is in a little conference room. The high school took the day away from the coordinator last minute after she booked it a long time ago. Having it in a room as opposed to a gym or auditorium kind of messes up my first line, but I'll make do.
Other than having a few shots before going up there -- how do you get rid of the nerves or at least calm them down a little bit? Because on the 10th I'll be freaking out!
