In the expository speeches I was happy when the speakers incorporated humor into their lessons. One girl gave a speech about eyes, hitting on scientific, aesthetic and optical elements of the eye - all of which I enjoyed, but I think I liked her speech even more with all of the puns she incorporated. "Let's not lose focus," it was just silly.
Another young man in the round gave a speech on origami. While I wasn't particularly blown away by much of his speech, he did use the origami fortune telling game at the beginning and end of his speech. While I don't recall the first fortune he found, the last one he found was that he saw all of the judges circling "1's" in the round - which means we would be giving him first place. It was ridiculous, but I loved it.
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Into the humorous interpretation, it's expected that people will be silly - as they are trying to make you laugh. I love laughing so I felt pretty excited to be placed in the finals round of such an event. Anyway, the thing about these speeches that it's usually only one person speaking - and there are usually quite a few characters. So here you see a person switching between characters by the way they stand, the direction they face, their facial expressions, and their voice.
Imagine a 17 year-old-boy putting on the face of an old woman in a walker - this in of itself is silly. But I think a favorite moment came from a young man moving like a caterpillar and singing various songs at a fairly high pitch in relation to his speaking voice. Another noteworthy moment involved a girl playing the part of the long-term smoker, snow-white with a dwarf named slappy - who could not stop slapping himself (or anybody else).
Surely I cannot explain to you exactly how all of these images looked, sounded or even remotely convey the humor, but I was laughing. It was silly. And I loved it.
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