The CSB Experience: SHAME!

    Every Monday, I'm at school an hour and a half earlier before my actual class starts at 2:30 PM. The reason? well, I have DebSoc training that day and even so during Wednesday and often times at Friday. It's starts at 1 to 2:30 in the afternoon.

    The art of debating is really hard to master, especially if you're relatively new to it, having been exposed to it once when I was in the 5th Grade (and that was like 5 years ago). So debating is something that, for me, is challenging, and I wanna try it.

    My course is not really related to debate since the common belief was if you're a member of the intelligent elite, and if your course are like Tourism, CDA, BusAdmin, etc.  It's not usually the case. Debate is open to all, reagrdless of any course or intelligence level, as long as your are openly aware of the things around you.

    I chose CSB DebSoc because I wanna try a new thing. During the STAR Week, there wasn't much interesting orgs with interesting things to offer. I only chose two, MediaMax and DebSoc. Of course I wanna try MediaMax' sister orgs like Kino Eye and Optic View but MediaMax is a mixed of these two orgs so I felt it unnecessary to do.

    I came to know initially some of the senior members of the org, Phil the team captain, Ate Che and Nat,  and a guy I can't real the name. Well, they are of course full 0of experience, being representing the college in countless tourneys from here and abroad. At first, I was rlatively shy to talk to them with comfort but nowadays, I'm  getting a bit comfortable with them lalo pa't madalas na ang pagkikita namin kaya nagkakilanlan na.

DebSoc training is very rigid if not difficult. Since DebSoc is also a varsity team, we have training on sereavl times of the week with Saturday, the org devotes half of the day nosebleeding with their debating skills (for the senior members I think).

    Debating is not really hard to do, the hard part is when you get to apply what you've learn from it on an actual debate. I for instance have some knowledge on one of the previous notion given to us frosh recruits during oe of our early trainings, Globalization. if you know how to speak for and against it with the structure of your speech intact you can go a long way. Althoug I do have my limitations.

    There was one time that I have absolutely no clue on this particular notion given and the worse is that I have o speak against it. Problem is how to defend my stance against that notion but at the end, I failed to do so. One problem also is that my tongue's getting dry as I go on with my speech. That only happens if I don't know what say next and I have to think about it witoutwasting the 7-minute limit given to us by our superiors.

    Thanks to Che and Nat, I can somehow manage what I should do and what I must do. I really have to improve my debate deficiencies, plust my speech problem wherein I start strong but get weaker as I go on and my skills to rebutt, argue, and clash against the side of the opposing team (govt or opposition). I need so now with the impending of my first tourney this Friday the 20th, the annual CSB Open whererin me and the rest of the frosh recruits are gonna battle our guts our with the neophyte members of DLSU-Manila DebSoc.  So in preprartion for it, I'm gonna train with the rest of the varsity this Tuesday from 6-9 in the evening.

So I wish myself and from you the best of luck for me.  :):):)