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My Debating Experience... scary.

I was going through my YouTube downloads and I saw a couple of videos that I used to prepare for a school debate in 2022; so I decided to do a blog on my experience at the debate. Here it is  ✨ My first experience debating was in JS1. I joined the debate, poetry, and writing club of my school mainly because I thought it was cool.  The debate topics we had were rather peripheral, for example: “doctors vs farmers: who contributes more to the society?”.  In those debates, there was pretty much no style as to who spoke first or next, it was all rather randomized. So whenever it was my turn to speak, all points would have been taken by the previous speakers and I would be left blank  😅 . I left the club in JS2 to join another ‘interesting’ club. Last year, I saw an email inviting students to participate in a school debate competition.  I was a little bored at that time and I needed something exciting to lay my hands on, so I said ‘why not try out?’ I signed up, and,...