Vote for the Crown!!

(wearing crown & sash) Good afternoon! I guess you've all noticed the "bling" on top of my head. Well, that's beacuse I'm a pageant girl. Yep- a full-fledged, hard-core, glitzy pageant girl. Or, as some people say, robot. The truth is, I've learned how to do just about every robotic, pageant thing there is in the business. I can do the "hip-swivel", which is used to model (especially in physical fitness and swimsuit). **DEMONSTRATES** The pony kick and weight shift. **DEMONSTRATE** I learned how to do the smile which honestly isn't really a smile at all. It hyrts more than it makes you happy. You have to set you're teeth together perfectly and smile wider than any normal human being can accomplish. **DEMONSTRATE** There's also the slow, agonizing "pageant wave". **DEMONSTRATE** But we don't really use that anymore. I've learned how to cry on the spot and react "appropriately" when my name is called for finalist, an award, or winner. **DEMONSTRATE** I've even acquired that horrible, fake-peppy, almost screeching pagenat voice that we use to introduce ourselves onstage. **DEMONSTRATE: GOOD AFTERNOON LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND WELCOME! I AM YOUR 2009 MISS HOLIDAY IN DIXIE'S OUTSTANDING TEEN, MEAGAN LEE.**

Pageanting all these years has taught me those ridiculously silly things I just showed you. But what it has also taught me it how to handle myself in front of an audience. How to answer a question -whether it be about politics, current events in the media, personal opinion, or sugar cookie question like "what's your faveorite color?" - at the drop of a hat. I've learned how to stand in a rom facing five judges, alone, ready to fire questions at me left and right, waiting for the moment that I will fall and they can decide I'm not good enoug to wear their crown. I can *gracefull* state my opinion on contriversial matters and stick to it no matter whether one of the judges diagrees with me. I know how to present and promote my platform issue, which is something very close and important to me, to hundreds of people of all ages while relating to each and every one of them.I know how to talk to and please a crowd. I have to - I'm a performer! So take a chance. Vote for what is supposed to be the dingy, stupid, all-looks-no-brains,airhead under the crown, pageant girl and I know you'll be pleasantly surprised. VOTE FOR THE CROWN!! VOTE FOR MEAGAN LEE!!