Debating

                Debating was always interesting to me. I always thought about as the best activity to strengthen your speaking and critical thinking skills. Hence, when I saw an invitation in the social media to attend debating club classes, I was really tempted. For that reason, a few weeks ago I participated in an introductory class of this club and now I am a member of this club, and already I had 2 classes of in this club.

                Every lesson is really interesting to me. Although, we started from the basics such as the format of debate and how should you structure your speech, I grasped quite a few valuable insights about effectively showing your opinion. Already, I see progress in my thinking, since now I see everything through debater’s mindset.

                Next week I will if my progress is good since I will have my first debate. Even now, knowing that it will be only the next week, I feel that it will be hard and quite challenging. I will need to speak up to 6 min, since it’s the appropriate time for a speech in the format we debate in. 6 minutes are a lot when you think about it, but my teachers say that it’s nothing and they would speak twice as much if they could. Well, I will see for myself if they are right and definitely I will find out my strength in debating.

                I founded debating so interesting that I even tempted a few of my friends to go to classes with me and I hope even one of them will agree, since debating is such a great activity to do. It was actually almost compulsory in ancient times and was written by many of philosophers as a key of individuals’ mental growth. I understand them now.

Here is a photo from the oppening event: