Debate

Hello.

In the last article I wrote about the debate and the summer picnic of my circle and I said that I will write more in the next article. So here I am!!!

The debate held between the students from the Tokyo University and the Sophia University, called the "UT-exchange", was about the abolishment of the death penalty in Japan. I personally think that there should be death penalty because I believe that this is what are being a deterring factor of murders and other criminals. However we had to do two debate games standing on both the affirmative side and the negative side.

The game is held between two pairs and a judge, so there are five people who participated in each game. My pair was a girl named Emi, who is a really smart girl!!! She supported me a lot and I think that I was very lucky to have her as the partner. In the result, we won the first game which we took role from the negative side but had lost the second game from the point of the affirmative side. I seriously owe a lot to Emi and I feel that I could not have done such a great game without her help. Even though we had lost in the second game, I did my best and there is no regret about it.

What had made me most excited about the whole UT-exchange was that my group, Emi and I, had won the fourth prize, which was the best score of the pair from the Sophia University!!!!! I was seriously amazed at this!! It is very honorable to get such prize and I am very proud of it. I seriously thank Emi, my best partner for doing all the works with me!!