My student teacher is working with my freshmen on public speaking skills. The topic we assigned them was "How To" speeches. They could choose any topic they wanted (as long as it's school appropriate, of course) and write their speech. No props. We're more concerned about the speaking skills than the content of the speech.
Yesterday speeches began. One of my lovely freshmen boys, M, is giving a speech on…how to paint your nails.
You heard me, a boy is giving a speech on how to paint your fingernails.
And before you start wondering if he's, you know, gay? Or Goth? Or weird at all? The answer is no. He's a great student. Super polite. Very good natured. In fact, he's the one I wrote about in this blog entry about a story we read in class. A football player, wrestler, and baseball player. Cute. Has a girlfriend. Normal as can be. Well, he's 6'5" as a freshman, and kind of goofy, but other than that, he's perfectly normal.
He spoke way too fast for me to catch all of his speech (which, if I were to be totally honest, wasn't that good anyway), so here are some of my favorite excerpts.
The ... indicates where he talked too fast for me and I missed it.
“Okay, so you know it’s Spirit Week, and you want to get dressed up so that when people see you they’ll be like, ‘Hey, that guy likes Southridge!’…you’ve got your outfit, you’ve got the face paint. All you need now is to paint your nails. But you don’t know how. So you go looking for your mom, but she’s at work. You ask your sister, but she is going to hang out at the mall with her friends. So it’s up to you to figure it out…the most important thing is to find a bathroom – ‘cause it’s private and you can lock it. Because otherwise your little brother might walk in and say ‘what are you doing? That’s retarded!’…you need to do a clear base coat (I’m still not sure why but all the girls I talked to said it was REALLY important)…after you get your nails painted, you’re ready to go to the game and cheer for your team…In sum, you need to get your supplies, find a location, and enjoy the game. Amen.”
The student teacher told him in the future to be careful of the words he chooses (ie retarded), and M knew exactly what he was talking about.
M said, “I was going to say ‘gay’ but knew I shouldn’t.”
His neighbor pipes up with “Yesterday he said ‘homosexual’ when he was practicing with me!”
Man, I love my job.
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2 comments:
LOL! That does sound quite humorous!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
PS I'm totally not that into painting my fingernails, but I have heard that you are supposed to paint the clear coat first so the colored polish (especially the colors like bright red, or dark purples and stuff) doesn't stain the nail...
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