Board Thread:Season 17 - Sardinia/@comment-3276966-20140711185501

Well hello jury, I’m going to try to make this brief so you guys can get right on to your questions. But before I start, there’s just one thing I need to make clear about my speech. .

'' There will be absolutely no kiss ass or lies in this speech. Any views or opinions made in this speech are mine and mine only, thank you.''

For the past several days, I was really thinking on just how to start my speech. Like do I come off as the “innocent” girl, apologizing for everything I have done? Or do I come off as the tough girl, making it seem like I had this game all wrapped up in my palm. Well, after thinking and thinking, I decided how to do this speech, and that’s to simply come off… as me. So to explain my game, I’m going to take all the way back to the beginning. My main strategy coming into this game was to tie strings with other people (basically, to grow attachments and trust.). So that’s just what I did, at the beginning I tied about 7 strings and left it at that. As time went, every single string that I had originally tied was ultimately cut… except for one. Instead, this string turned into a sturdy rope, and from there, an impenetrable chain. Now here we are me and my partner in crime / best friend Boo. We were able to do what very phew duos are able to do in the game of survivor, which is to promise to make it to the end on like day 5, and actually make it to the end. My game wouldn’t be what it was if it wasn’t for Boo, we were able to share information, come up with game plans, and watch each other’s backs to farther ourselves in this game. We weren’t afraid to take on risks, and every challenge that confronted us we took head on. So that’s mainly my game with Boo, but let me also explain my individual game. Individually, as I said before, was to just connect with people, and to cut them out when they needed to be cut out. I always played the game looking to the end. An example of this would be with the rocks; if we voted Tyler and went to rocks, I knew that the odds were against my side in the rock drawing, and if someone went home on my side, me, Hazim, and Boo would be easily voted out in the next tribal. But on the other side of the spectrum, if we were to vote Hazim, even though we would avoid rock drawing, we would lose the trust of Wes, and that once Wes was gone, Boo and I were most likely going to be voted out right after, so we decided to take the risk, and well, it worked. Now when it came to challenges, despite the “allegations” that I didn’t try, I really worked hard in those challenges. The only times I didn’t submit (which was 3 times) was really when I couldn’t submit. Now when it came to the scores of the challenges, I will admit that I definitely was no Tasha Fox, but you know what, I really did try and give 110%.

So finally, I’m just going to address the big elephant in the room, why did I flip? Well, I’ll answer this with a question to the jury; let’s say you and some others had small talk about eliminating huge threats that were in your alliance, but there was foundation to the plan and the chances of it ever happening were slim. Now, let’s say you revealed this plan to someone you thought you trusted, and instead of keeping it a secret, they revealed it to every person in the alliance, and sent one of the people involved packing without you or the other person knowing a thing. Now, are you just going to stay in that alliance, just to get voted out later on at 8th or 7th place? If you’re answer is yes, well then I guess were just different people because there was absolutely no way I could side back with them, even if I wanted to. And in the grand scheme of things, I feel like I made the right move for me.

Now I bring it to you jury, I look forward to answering your questions thoroughly and honestly. 