When I was in Grade two, my class teacher asked me to make a speech during the ceremony held to admit Grade one students to the school. Then I said, “Yes, I can.” The day approached me like an electric train. Everyone was busy like in a beehive.
I was happily playing with my friends and did not care about anything. My mom told me a number of times that I should study the speech, but I did not care and she blamed me at the last minute.
Suddenly a person called me by my name. I got on to the stage and started my speech.
I spoke a few sentences and suddenly forgot the rest of the speech. I was shivering as if I fell into the Atlantic Ocean from the Titanic. Then a teacher next to me said “Look at the paper you have written the speech on, and make that speech” and I did it. After the speech, my class teacher said, “It’s okay.”
After all, I learned two lessons from that. They are that I must do what my mom tells me to do and that before I do something, I should prepare for it well.
T.M. Minuthi Praweda Tennakoon,
Grade 9,
Saranath National College,
Kuliyapitiya.