"30 Days: Minimum Wage"

          Walking in another person's shoes has a whole new meaning for me. This show has surprised me yet appalled me. I never thought that working for minimum wage would just barely get a person by. It's hard to imagine that thousands, probably millions, of people do this their whole life. We take for granted being able to drive our cars and being able to buy a snack after school. Alex realized that he isn't able to just buy a snack whenever he was hungry. Morgan and Alex both had to go to the hospital and they could barely pay off their bill. The way that Alex said, walking into the emergency room cost him around $300.  I thought that was just shocking. I think the government needed to raise minimum wage a lot sooner than they did. This country is supposed to be about equality but the government is set up is to keep the poor, poor and the rich, rich. Granted, there are a lot of charities out there, but it's still not enough for every homeless or needy person in this country. I'm taking into account that this couple didn't even have kids. Everyone knows that having kids is very expensive but Morgan and Alex could barely provide for themselves, what would they have done if they had kids? It's a scary thought for sure.

Well that was nerve wracking! Trying to remember my speech, keeping eye contact with everyone and staying enthusiastic throughout the entire speech was way more difficult than I had imagined. Not even counting the fact that I completely forgot one of my points until the very end! So saying that I have things to work on may be a little bit of an understatement. I know that I'm going to have to work on remembering all of my points and keeping calm throughout the entire speech. I think I kept eye contact with others through out. I am excited for the next speech, despite everything that went wrong with this one! :)