Full Version or Dr. Martin Luther King’s Freedom speech (17:28)

As silly as it sounds, If you have a dream to make money on the Internet, don’t let anything stop you. Dr. Martin Luther King was shot just before he was due to lead a protest march.
Hopefully you wont die, but there will be hard times, but don’t give up!Another example is Rose Kelly from Waterloo Road. Now you oldies probably won’t even know her and The Gazz-man definitely won’t, because I don’t think they have Waterloo Road down in the Oz! But she is a single mother of 4, who really tries to turn her life around.

She used to be a drunken weirdo, who didn’t look after her kids, but she tried so hard to give up her addiction and got a job at the school cafeteria and joined adult learning course and a friend really helped her with it. He took her to all the meetings and so on. And the head teacher of the school always encouraged her when every one’s in doubt.
This message is that you can’t do everything on your own. You all know who helps you and one day you will be helping others. Don’t try and do it all on your own!
It’s like when your learning to ride a bike, your parents were always there holding on and you were saying “Don’t let go, don’t let go!” secretly wishing they would. And one day you will find your riding on your own, with no help. But of course there will always be times when you fall off, but you will pick yourself up again and carry on!

My last example is… Guess who! Me!! Yes me! You may skip this part if you wish; I know I can go on a bit! A bit, what is she talking about? She could go on for her life! But seriously, recently, well kind off recently! I passed my Grade 1 Oboe exam with Distinction . For those of you who don’t know, Distinction is the best thing you can get !
As I’m sure my Mum can tell you, many days I would be coming home from school being so annoyed with my Oboe teacher. But I carried on!

At the beginning of my first year at my school, I had to decide whether I wanted to play a musical instrument or not, I knew I really wanted to play the Saxophone so I wrote that down. The next day we were told what instruments we could play and Saxophone wasn’t one of them, I asked my teacher and she said we had no-one to teach it. So a few days later we listened to our Woodwind teacher play all the different Woodwind instruments. I had already kind of decided to play the flute because my cousin played it, but when I heard the Clarinet and learnt that it was closest to the Saxophone so then I decided to play that. The next day I heard the Oboe, and woah don’t they sound good! I wrote that down on my list and handed it in. I also had many people in my group come and go and it made it very hard for me not to leave. The people I am with now had learnt scales at the same time as me; this is the only reason why I did my Exam at the same time as them. What I find ridiculous (and sorry for me moaning) is that he somehow thinks he can hold it against me that when I got a bit of my scale wrong that I’ve known it way longer than everyone else!

I can’t remember how long it was, but eventually I was told I would be playing the Oboe. I was happy at first, but after a while I stopped enjoying practising. I didn’t like my teacher and the only thing that was driving me forward was the fact that I thought that soon I would be doing my Grade 1. It was really hard for me because all my friends were doing there’s and they kept bragging that they’d already done theirs and meaning that they were better than me. Also I saw on the desk a letter to hand in about doing Grade 1 with my name on it, but I never got it. He obviously didn’t want to give it too me and it wasn’t that he had forgotten.

Finally I was ready to do my Exam. I really tried to work on the things that I found difficult, but I got barely any support from my teacher so I relied heavily on my mum for support.  When I was rehearsing for my exam at the school I was going to be examined at, I mucked up one of my pieces and I was convinced I would muck up in my exam. But I did say that I was really nervous and apparently I didn’t look it!

The next month I got my results back. There were three of us taking our exam and our teacher said “Well done everyone, you have all past with merit!” He read out every one’s marks and I was the last one. Everyone had done really well and got really good marks but when he got to me he said “Oh, I was wrong you didn’t all get merit.” and I was like Oh no, great I’ve failed! Then he told me I got Distinction! Yay!

And that just about sums up my lecture (LOL). If you stick with it, even though it seems tough. It will be worth it!
And for those of you who are thinking, well I stick with things, I get to the end, but it’s never worth it! Yes it was worth it, you’ve learnt loads of things by getting to the end. If you still don’t believe me speak to my dad, he knows all about getting to the end and not everything being as you expect it. You can find him on my blog roll under cool people, he has also recently set up his twitter, I’m not sure what is it so you will have to ask him, but its worth having a chat with him he’s a wise guy!

And finally I will finish with a few questions for you…

What have you had to pursue through but have been glad you did it?

What have you done that has taken a while and made you think, was it worth my while?

And finally, one to help others…  How did you get to the end?

Thank you for reading my massive lecture.

The Lizzard