After everyone heard each other’s monologues on the Tuesday before the Monologue showcase, we got the chance to pick out whoever was more worthy to go up on the stage to speak their monologue. Turns out that mine was picked among the class as it was something everyone could be connected to: Pokemon. Now when I went up to the stage, it took some time to get myself ready and composed, like really composed. The fact that everyone before me had impressive monologues made me think mine was really something to be overshadowed among the rest, which made me all the more nervous. I had the PhD. Pikachu propped on my hoodie just for stage effect, and decided to have it on me the entire day after that, really felt like a Pokemon Trainer. What I can reflect on all of these monologues is that among them all, I felt like mine was the only optimistic monologue among the monologues that were showcased.