Meigie Angela E.

Caminong STEM Block 1 Oral Communication

'You are one of the guest speakers to encourage teenagers who have experienced bullying.’
In this blessed day, I greet all those listening to my speech right now. I wish you a great
day and a hopeful future. A future where all of you have already overcome the shadows of your
past. And a future where you have already proven to those that have bullied you before, that you
are better than them. That what they did to you was only a minor setback on your life. And that
whatever they did had no effect and will never have an effect on your own evaluation of your
self-worth.

To begin with you all, I will be honest that I have never experienced bullying. But though
I have never experienced what you all have been through, I can say with conviction, that I am on
your side. WE are on your side. School is a place of learning. A place where kids the same age as
you should be making memories with your friends and going through the hardships of studying
together with them. Not a place where you could only remember suffering and depression upon
thinking back on. That is why, for everyone here, I encourage you not to be scared of going to
school. Think of the bullies as the challenge or fear you have to face. Fears and challenges are
meant to be overtaken. Isn’t that the reason why all of you are here today? All of you here have
experienced bullying. ‘Experienced’. A word of past tense. Which means that all of you have
already overcome your bullies, or perhaps you’re still tolerating them even till now, which is
nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, all of you should be proud of yourselves, for all of you are
strong enough to tolerate what those bullies have been doing to you without giving up on life.

Do not take my words as a form of pity or just shallow comfort. What I’ve said is merely
the truth. A full grown adult may or may not be able to tolerate mental and physical abuse for a
long period of time, BUT, are any of you here adults? NO! Everyone here are teenagers! Kids
who have not yet experienced the ways of society. You did not have any knowledge and
experience of how to cope yet you did it. You did something that even adults may have a hard
time doing. But, being as capable as adults does not mean that you can continue bearing the pain
alone as you have done. Some of you might have already asked adults for help but I know that
there are many of you who didn’t ask for help. Perhaps you were afraid that teachers will take it
as mere children’s squabble, or that maybe you’ll only worry and bother your parents, or that if
your ask for help merely gave the bullies a suspension for a week or more, when they come back,
you’ll face harsher bullying. No matter what, your parents are your greatest allies. Asking for
help won’t give them a bother, instead they’ll feel gratified that you trusted them for help and
that you didn’t have to endure the bullying without them knowing. Your teachers are the same.
Teachers are our second parents. They are able to distinguish between little problems and serious
problems according to the attitude of the students asking for help. Sincerely tell them what
you’ve experienced and they’ll know the best way to help you.
 That period of your life is merely an episode on the series of your life. A series where
you are the protagonist and the bullies are merely villains or better yet, side characters who will
be your stepping stone to become a better person. Use them as a lesson and a motivation instead
of holding yourself down because of what they’ve said and done. Don’t hold to heart the lies that
they spout. But hold to heart the debt of karma they owe you. Use that as motivation to work
harder, study harder to arrive at a future where you can proudly lift your head in front of them
and confidently say to yourself that you are better than your bullies. And realize that what
they’ve done to you is their pitiful way of increasing their self-worth and validation, when in
truth, what they’ve done had only decreased their value as a human being. Humans have
principles and morals, so don’t think that you, someone who still has humanity, are any less then
them. Only you, yourself can define who you are. Not some bullies that can’t even see their own
self worth yet continue to judge others for things that they aren’t.

Your life is yours to control. And so are the choices that you’ll have to make. Other’s
opinions don’t define who you are and neither do they prove what your worth. Prove to them and
to yourself that you can surpass what they make you out to be. That you are a survivor, an
achiever and that you are not a quitter.

‘You won as President in the Supreme Student Government Election 2022’

I will hold true to all the promises I’ve made during the campaign and I will swear to all
the trust you’ve placed in me that my words will not continue just as mere ‘promises’ but as
vows that I have already fulfilled. I will make sure that every event our school will hold won’t
have any mishaps and that everyone will remember each one as a dear memory to look on.
Problems, concerns and suggestions from the students regarding our school will be accepted with
open ears by the SSG. As long as the suggestions and concerns are reasonable, we will find
solutions for your concerns and accept your suggestions. As for the already existing rules, we
hope to strengthen them during our year of leading this school. I hope that everyone will
cooperate in regards to segregating our trash. A good learning environment needs to be clean.
There’s also the no ID, no entry policy. Though it may prove troublesome to some since it’s
common to forget your ID, I hope that everyone will make a habit of remembering it from now
on, since this is for your safety. Since recent time, there has been incidents wherein teenagers not
from our school were able to get in, which lead to fights. So as to prevent such troubles, we
absolutely must implement the no ID, no entry policy.

The SSG may be the leading students of our school but that does not make us any
superior to any other students. We can only lead when we have people to lead, so I would like
everyone here to please continue giving us your support and cooperation in order to guide the
environment of our learning to improvement. That’s all from your new president, and once again
thank you.

‘Your DRRM teacher asked you to deliver a speech on how and what to prepare
during pandemic.’
Good day everyone. I’m sure some of us still have concerns regarding our face to face
classes. Whether if its safe enough to let students interact within one room and whether the
pandemic will spread if there was a chance that a student had a virus, went to school and
interacted with other students. Such concerns are warranted but the school has made various
processes in order to ensure the students’ safety.

Our time during quarantine can’t be said to have been spent in vain, yet it can’t also be
called productive. Though we had modules to ensure we learn something, it can’t be said to have
though most students much. After all, without the direct guidance of teachers, students can’t be
as productive with learning. And so, face to face is a must in order for us to have proper
education. But safety is important too, so our cooperation will also be greatly needed. We can’t
just be complacent in our vaccine shots. To ensure that the low chance of getting the virus won’t
happen even with the vaccine shot, we also need to do our parts to prevent it. And what we need
for that is alcohol, face mask and a 1 meter distance with each other.

Alcohol is a must since even if we didn’t make contact with others directly, we can still
make contact through the things we’ve both touched. If you don’t have alcohol, then washing
your hands thoroughly with soap and water will be enough too. I believe that the face mask
doesn’t have to be explained, we must make sure to wear it all times when in a place with lots of
people. And lastly is the one meter distance. Interacting with other people doesn’t necessarily
need you to be at a proximity closer than 1 meter. Even if it’s a bit awkward for you, please
endure because this is for the safety of not only you but also all the students at the school. That’s
all, thank you for listening and I hope that everyone takes what I said to heart so that we could
make it through the pandemic together.
 ‘You are invited as a speaker to discuss the contributions of PWD (Person with
Disabilities) in social development.’
Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Have any of you here met a person with a disability
before? Perhaps you’ve crossed one before while walking down the street and thought that the
person was pitiful. Or perhaps you’re a close relative or friend of one of them. If so, whether
you’ve met one because of the former or latter makes a lot of difference to you.

People with disabilities were born with less capabilities than normal people are given off.
And due to that fact, most PWD’s grow up more mature, open-minded and thoughtful than
normal people. We grow up taking for granted something that they weren’t given upon coming
to this world. That’s why, when seeing a PWD, most people often feel pity but also gratefulness
and compassion. Grateful that we weren’t born with such hardships and compassionate for the
person that had to live their whole life with such hardships. PWD’s have provided great
contributions to social development because they themselves serve as a great model to others.
We might think that we’re having a hard time, but when in comparison to them, our problems
might seem like a small pebble in comparison. They live in humility but that doesn’t make them
any less than us and we also aren’t any more than them.

That’s why, if you come across a PWD while walking down the street and not think of
such person as pitiful but a person worthy of respect then you can also be proud of yourself.
Such are the lessons we learn upon interacting with them. We learn to be more humble,
compassionate, thoughtful, open-minded and hardworking. We learn to look at life more
positively because we know that they look at the world with the same mentality. Other’s who are
born with less tend to look at the world with different eyes as a person born with more. It is a
great lesson for those who are born with more to also look at the world with the same eyes to
learn and appreciate the things we didn’t before.