Extemp is white, OO is blue

So today is Valentines day, and as I am a Christian homeschooler and thus do not have a significant other, I  honestly don't care that much. So instead of posting about love and stuff, I'll post about how wonderful I think speech and debate is.

Speech and debate tends to consume your life. There's not a whole lot of time for school when you have e-ring due on Wednesday and you need to rewrite your speech by Thursday and memorize it by the tournament next week. There are a lot of things that normal teenagers do while CHSADKs are watching speeches on YouTube and trying to find evidence about shark ITQ's. 

So why do we do these things? Why are we (to be blunt) such weirdos? There are two answers to these questions.

1. We're crazy. Straight up, we're insane. We have all the mental stability of Moriaty. I mean, honestly, what did you expect? We do the strangest things. While most people are watching video game walk-throughs and funny cat videos, we're watching the first place extemp speech from NCFCA nats two years ago.

2. We love it. We love making fun of ourselves. We love being done with e-ring. We wouldn't survive without weekly club meetings and the occasional tournament. I'm not entirely certain how we would make it through the summer without ultimate frisbee and speech and debate camps. We may not all be extroverts, but we still enjoy being with each other. The warm greetings before club starts, the excessive embraces between interstate friends on the first day of tournaments. Sure, we do weird, crazy things. But I'm sure I speak for almost all of us when I say that we would be very different people without speech and debate, but more importantly without each other.

So before you go dismissing us all as insane lunatics (although we may well be just that) think for a moment of the lives that have been changed through speech and debate. Not just persuasives and DIs, but through the friendships that have been made. Even though we're all different, we all like different things, we all share this one thing: speech and debate.

So though there are many reasons to vote affirmative, today I'd like to ask you to do so because you know the ways that Christian Homeschool Speech and Debate has changed you.