St. Patrick's Day Informative Speech

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St. Patrick’s Day is an Irish cultural/religious celebration, and because of this you just never know what to expect. Here is what may happen to you this St. Patrick’s Day,
Saturday the 17th.

Aries (March 21-April 19) You’ll go to an amusement park.
It’s never been a secret that you love amusement parks. You love thrills, to go fast, for wind to run its fingers through your hair and push your head back. You love to feel like you’re flying, like you’re a free bird able to soar across the sky. Only roller coasters allow you to feel this sense of euphoria that you crave. You jump inside the biggest and longest coaster in the park, giddy with excitement. As it rushes to the top, it slows down, as expected, but instead of getting faster once …show more content…

You don’t want people to ask you to go anywhere, you don’t want to watch people act dumb, you don’t want to eat unhealthy food, you don’t want to be forced into awkward small talk with someone as equally uncomfortable squished between a wall and a kissing couple. You just want to relax and not think about the complications that other people have in their lives. You’re stewing in your own frustration until a green flash and a loud bang fill the room, and you find yourself face to face with St. Patrick himself. He gives you a knowing smile and outstretches his hand. You know you’re supposed to take it. You know he’s going to transport you to a better place. You will not have it. To his confusion, you jump off the couch and run into your bathroom, then lock the door. That’ll teach strange men to zap into your living room without …show more content…

Very few people know you have a soft side, not because they’re not paying attention, but because you go through such pains to hide it as well as you do. Nevertheless, you can’t resist baby animals. You escape throngs of people in favor of the countryside, and wind your way through the various pens lingering among the younger animals. When you cut through a large field of wildflowers, a goat bounds up to you right in the middle. You blink at it, he blinks back. His third eye takes you by surprise. He turns around and trots into the impending forest. When you follow, you don’t think of home, and you don’t go

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