ESS debate #2
Yet again, I joined an ESS Debate meeting on December 11th and 12th. It was held at two universities in Kobe Prefecture and was also limited to freshmen. The topic was the same as last time: child care leave. It will change at the beginnig of the new year, so this was the last chance to debate about child care leave with other universities’ debaters. Until the meeting started, I spent much time on preparing for speech, attacks against the opponents and on supporting evidence.
Kobe is far from Mie, so I left for Kobe at 5:30 am to reach the university at 9:00 am. Twenty-two teams from various universities participated in this meeting. The first day, we did three games. The next day, we did one because only four teams were allowed to advance to the semifinals and the final; my team wasn’t among those four teams. However, we did our best and won two games!
I felt many freshmen have studied a lot and improved their debating skills considerably. Through this meeting, I also managed to make friends with many debaters from other universities. They stimulated me to go on learning debate as an ESS member. So I’ll go on!
In this meeting, prizes were awarded to some teams. Moreover, there was another prize which was awarded for good speaking. To my surprise, one of the Mie University students got the second prize out of 44 freshmen. His prize made me happy because I’ve been studying debate with him until today. I want to catch up with him someday.
After finishing the debate game, I went Osaka with the other ESS members. It was very crowded but we enjoyed it.
I had a good weekend!
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