First Speech of Speech Class
My name is Matthew Radwan, I am a freshman here at SCAD and I’m majoring in photography. I think I want to minor in advertising, or graphic design, possibly fashion. I think my minor will be whatever I’m more interested in at that moment. I always have phases of things I’m interested in but I am always interested in photography so I think that has to be my major. I know I want to have a job in New York City, that’s really my only goal. I have no dream job. Not at the moment at least. I just know that New York City is where I want to be in the future. I actually applied to Parsons the New School for Design for this coming year, and I got in. But now I really don’t want to leave Savannah. The first quarter was less than thrilling here. I couldn’t really find anyone to hang out with and my professors all were kind of crappy. That kind of freaked me out a little, because all though my life I’ve never really had trouble meeting new people and adjusting to new things. This transition was a shock to me really but now in the spring of 2009 I am making great progress in this area of life. I have a really great group of about 6 people, give or take, that I hang out with all the time and I really like them a lot. So things are looking up and now that I’ve had classes with professors that I really like I think I’m going to have to say thanks but no thanks to Parsons. I know New York City is still in the future for me but not right away. I was thinking well I’m going to end up there anyways so I might as well just go now, but I think spending a few more years in this quiet city will be just fine with me. I just had to get used to it I think. I actually just made that decision over spring break. I was in Florida at the time and I was thinking about how great it was to be back with my friends that live in Orlando, but then I missed my friends from college and it felt sort of wrong to prefer the new life to the old. That I think was my moment I decided. So that’s sort of where I am now but I suppose I should start at the beginning. I was born in Massachusetts and lived in Rhode Island till I was 5, then we moved to New Hampshire and that’s were I’ve been ever since. I really like New Hampshire. Looking back on it now it was a really nice place to grow up, anywhere in New England is really I guess. I mean when I was growing up all I wanted to do was leave, like any suburban kid. But now I like going back. It’s a good place to call home. I never really realized living in New England how close everything is. I live thirty minutes away from the beach and thirty minutes away from Boston. Really any direction you travel for about an hour and you’ll be somewhere completely different. Now I come here and Atlanta is about 5 hours away. That’s another good thing about New England I decided. I think I’ll probably end up back there at some point in my life. But I think I should live in Connecticut, it seems close enough to New York but still New England. Anyways I am an only child, which can be a good thing, or a bad thing. I always wanted a brother or sister. I think the worst thing besides always getting the blame for everything was that I was really lonely and bored a lot growing up. My mom and dad are two really important people in my life. I hated them in high school of course but I think that’s a requirement of being a teenager in the suburbs. My mom is basically what I like to call a trophy wife without being a trophy. She likes to spend lots of money but she’s not any ordinary trophy wife no, she spends all our money on decorations for the house and little trinkets that you can buy off of TV. She works three times a week at the town library and is a really sweet lady. My dad works all the time to keep my mother at trophy wife status of course. He is definitely a corporate guy. I really don’t like people who are big executives like my dad, but he really deserves it. When I was born he didn’t even have a job and now he’s a vice president of CVS. Which in my opinion is pretty impressive. He worked his way all the way up the ladder from being a store manager to that. He works really hard and is in Rode Island for most of the week, but I know he’s doing it for us, and the membership to the country club of course so he can play golf for two days straight on the weekends. I actually got really mad when I found out our family belonged to a country club because we only go once a year as a family for mothers day, and we could be eating like kings everyday of the week, but its like an hour away so we just eat pasta and chicken nuggets at home instead. That’s ok with me though I guess. Getting back to the story, elementary and middle school were pretty normal for me I guess. High School is when I really started to bloom, sophomore year I grew out of being the “I’m a Goth kid!” phase to being an actual person in society. I got a really good group of friends and we stayed friends all throughout the rest of high school, were all still friends I guess but I know it’ll never be the same. That’s ok though. We spent almost every possible moment out of school together and always met at my friend’s house, “The Thompson’s” it was called. These two brothers Mike and Mark were our friends and their parents basically treated their home as a hotel, which was convenient. Any time of day, any day I could go to that house and there would be at least one of my friends sitting in the basement. It was a nice place to have. They’re actually moving this summer to Virginia; I don’t know what’s going to happen to our group once we have no meeting place. It’s going to be weird. I’m actually really excited for this summer, I get to save up some money so I can bring my car here next year and just have fun with all my old friends. I think I might miss my new friends too much though, which is why one of them, Lauren, is going to come live with me this summer so she can get a job. There apparently aren’t any jobs anywhere. In New England though this is not a problem. There are plenty, which is good news to me. I feel like this speech was almost trying to convince people to move to New England but it really wasn’t I promise, I guess its just a big part of who I am. But I do suggest moving there, its really nice.
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