Last weekend was the second round of the Shizuoka English Speech Contest. As you will know from my earlier post, Kanako Aoyama got through to this round. She has been working tirelessly on improving her intonation and pronunciation. However, she didn't go through to the next round. I was very sad for her but extremely proud of her and her speech, 'Life after Mental Illness'. It was a difficult and personal subject but she presented it brilliantly. Working with her for the past few months has been delightful and I hope that by practicing for the contest her confidence in using English has increased.
All the students speeches were interesting and well spoken. The competition was very high and I believe that the scores were all extremely close. Congratulations goes to Keiko Yamashita from Hamamatsu Kita whose speech, 'Why can't we talk face-to-face?', was excellently presented. Good luck in Tokyo.
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