SPEECH COMPETITION
Written by Hamza Varvani, member, Youth Journalism Club
On
Saturday April 19, 2008 NMJ had a wonderful function. It was a Speech
Competition. The function was supposed to start at 6:00 pm, but unfortunately
it was delayed a little. Instead of wasting time we prayed Asr salaah and then munched
on some Papadums
The
function started at 6.55 pm with an opening Du'a by Sister
Taibah Hathiyani. After
that the M.C. reminded everyone why we were there. Then he explained that the
children from Grades 1 to 8 will participate in an Impromptu Speech Competition
where they select a topic, then get 5 minutes to prepare and then come on stage
to speak about the topic for 2 minutes. For Grades 9 to University, the topics
had previously been given to them for them to present a prepared speech.
After the
introduction, the participants were called. The first category was Grades 1 to 3.
The participants and their topics were:
Sister
Safia Bagha My summer plans.
Sister Zulfa Varvani My teacher.
From
the second category of Grades 4 to 8 the participants and their topics were:
Sister
Shaira Bagha My best holidays
Sister
Madiha Hathiyani Explain the benefits of milk.
Sister Fatima Bagha My favorite food.
Sister Nahla Varvani My favorite relative.
Sister Hawa Noorani My favorite pet.
Sister
Taibah Hathiyani What
would I do if I was invisible for one day.
Sister Amara Kadernani The best day of my life.
Sister
Shafreen Bagha Explain the rules of your favorite
game.
Sister
Atiya Bagha My best dream ever.
Sister
Zainab Yakub Describe
your worst experience.
Brother
Hamza Varvani (myself) My favourite book.
Brother
Yasin Admani If you were an animal what would
you be?
For the
Speech Competition, there were two categories and their topics were as follows:
Grade
9 to 12
University/College Justification of War on
Terror
Brother
Nabil Hathiyani spoke about
All these
interesting topics made everyone hungry. Since it was time for Maghrib, we prayed first. After that we all ate a delicious
potluck dinner of chicken tikka and pilao.
After
dinner there was an Impromptu Speech Competition for the adults and Brother Shafi Yakub was the only participant. His topic was: You
are on a vacation and you meet a colleague and she says she misses you at work.
What would you do?
After
that, the judges announced the winners as follows:
Grades
1 to 8 Sisters Taibah Hathiyani and Atiya Bagha
Grades
9 to University Brother Nabil Hathiyani
Adults Brother Shafi Yakub
The
winners were presented with trophies and gifts donated by Abdulkader
Yakub and Family.
The President
of NMJ Canada came up and congratulated every participant. He said that they
did a great job talking about their topics. He also said how hard it is to talk
in front of everyone. While hearing the President every one ate dessert. Then
it was time to wrap up the function so the closing du'aa
was read. Then everyone helped clean up and we all went home, exhausted but
happy to be together.
Alhamdulilah the function was a complete success, and we pray that next
time it would start on time Inshallah.