課程主要分為大班的基本概念講解，以及小班的教學及練習。一開始的時候，講師徵求自願者上台練習辯論，當時因為太害怕所以不敢舉手。記得講師說了：“Come on! You want to learn something, don’t you? You paid money for this lecture!”
是啊，如果不練習，怎麼進步呢？另一方面，我們也要開始尋找一起參加最後全體積分賽的夥伴，我想，如果我不參與活動，怎麼認識別人，怎麼找到隊友呢？到了第二天，我逼著自己舉起手來，上台練習了如何以 Prime Minister 的身分開啟一段辯論。
記得當 Opening Opposition 時，勢如破竹反駁 Opening Government 的興奮。
I think they are contradicting with themselves.
記得每次在 lower house 總是被評審說我們在 “repeating what the opening said” 時的沮喪。還有我們第一次在 lower house 贏得勝利時，評審說的話：
“You all seem to be locked in a deadlock. It is the Closing Opposition that finally break the deadlock and crashed down the arguments coming from the Government side!!”
那一刻，真的好驕傲 =w=b
Because of the above reasons, we strongly believe that we Closing Opposition should win this debate!
評審也說:“Do you really only have these arguments? You can win the debate only because the issue is never well explained in the upper house.”
How to improve!!?
記得每一次一起喊加油的人們。
Motion - THW remove quotas for local programs.
They said that we are limiting people’s freedom of choice by giving quotas for local programs.
We are going to prove exactly why, by removing the quotas, they are actually the ones who damage the freedom of choice. And by preserving the quotas, we are actually protecting people’s choice!
As we already said, some local programs are just too weak to compete against international programs that have a long history of developing. If the quotas are removed, these local programs would just disappear.
What does that mean? It means the variety of programs would decrease!!
When this happens, the audiences do not have the right to choose anymore! Because those local programs are just not there! How can they choose?
還有在 Quater 時，明明不知怎麼 rebut，卻忍不住說起: “What they said is just nonsense!!” 結果只好見招拆招，連自己都不知道自己在說什麼。
Motion - THBT the developed world should bear a higher burden in the fight against global warming.
They said they the developed countries are pushing those highly polluting industries into developing countries and so the developing countries are causing more harm than developed countries. And that’s why the developing world should not bear a lower burden.
But can’t you see it?
Who exactly is pushing these polluting industries into them? The developed world!!
They said that these programs are giving people the choice to live in the life style they like. They said that they are giving people the chance to become the people who they would like to be.
But let’s look what’s the reality in the status quo. The reality is, homosexuality is generally believed to be incurable, or should I say, unchangeable.
Throughout the history, these programs do not produce any scientifically verifiable results. There certainly were some cases that the people were able to marry a different gender after the treatment, but only to be found out later that they were actually lying with themselves. That they were simply forcing themselves to live in a lie. A lie that produced great conflicts in their own mind.
Indeed, these programs sometimes actually cause harm to the people under the treatment. There were some cases that lead to deep depression, and even suicide.
That is exactly what we said as government side, that homosexuality is not something to be treated. Sexual orientation is not like anger that we can suppress. It’s not like shyness that we can overcome with. It’s who we are. It’s our inner nature that we simply cannot change.
In Taiwan, we actually teach students that sexual orientation cannot be changed in our school!!
When I was little, there was a time when I was in the sky looking down at a the road. On the road, there was an ambulance. In the ambulance, there was a boy. There was blood on the boy’s head. And the boy was me.
後來同桌的人把各自做的 outlines 放在一起，再決定要這個小組要以什麼作為期中 informational speech 的主題。最後選到了我想的《Sleeping well is good for you.》，於是我們一起找資料，分配各自要講的重點、製作 outline、製作簡報。最後成功合作完成一場漂亮的演講。
