University Debating Competition

On Monday afternoon, I went to National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in Yoyogi to see the ESUJ (The English-Speaking Union of Japan) University Dabating Competition 2005.

When I arrived there, the semifinal had finished, and in half an hour the model debate by guests from U.K started. The title was "This house would abolish registration of World Heritge Sites" and "This house believe that the United States should ratify the Kyoto Protocol". This is the first time for me to see the real debate.

I could hardly follow the issue of their debating because the debating level was so high. The guests were two female students from University of Cambridge and two male students from University of Oxford and University of Nottingham. No wonder. But I could feel the heat of their debating and I was glad to see their manner of debating.

I had no time on that day, so I had to leave there before the grand final. But I was greatly encouraged to study English harder.