Graduation

[Queen Latifah]

*The Final 3 ladies walk into Expulsion Hall with the graduation dresses on*



Queen Latifah: Congradulations ladies you have made it to graduation this season. Tonight one of you will walk away with $100,000 and be claimed winner of Charm School season 1.


Yesterday i told you all to prepare speeches for tonights Ceremony. Im going to ask Natasha to go first.

[Queen Latifah]

Natasha: Dear Deans and Fellow Graduates,

I've had a great time at Charm School. I've learned so much about myself and met a lot of great people. What I've learned here at Charm School is a lot. First of all, I've gained some self confidence. A few weeks ago during the challenge where we had to say who should go home, I probably would have said myself. Another thing I've learned is better self control. Plus, it's help give me better self esteem. I never though I'd win four challenges! It made me feel really good inside. Honestly, I don't think I could have gotten here without April and Angelique. April was so sweet through out the whole competition and Angelique made me laugh the whole way through. Whoever wins definitely deserves it.

Love,
Natasha

[Queen Latifah]

*Natasha steps back*


Promo your up next!

[Queen Latifah]

*Steps before Queen Latifah and the deans, dressed in a sexy yet elegant gown, with her hair done and her natural roots beginning to show as the hair dye begins to fade*

Promo: Hey guys! *Smiles and looks down to her cards, and then decides she doesn't need them* I really don't want to just read off these cards tonight, I want to tell you how I feel from the heart. I'm not superficial....well, not anymore. And I feel that reading from those would be.

Let's start off on why I came here. I came here....for publicity. I didn't think I would change. Why did I need Charm School? I wasn't a porn star or a stripper, a drug addict or an alcoholic, a hoodrat or a diva. No, I didn't have the hardest past, and I wasn't abused or molested as a child. Actually, I didn't even really get into that many fights. I came here because on Real Chance of Love I was put in a situation where I was constantly being thrown back and forth between the two guys. But is that really why I was here?

As time went on, I began to realize the real reason I was here. No, I wasn't a porn star or a lazy ex-reality star yet, but let's face the facts....that's what I wanted to be. I mean, really, I aspired to be like Megan Hauserman and Brandi C. Those were my role models, as much as it disgusts me to say that today. I wanted to be a part of that "clique". I wanted to be like Megan, and I wanted to be like Brandi C. I may not have been a hot mess, but I was on the path to becoming one. I dyed my hair platinum blonde to fit in with them, hoping to gain the popularity they did for being ditzy, hot blondes. I was being a complete follower, not someone that could think on their own, but wanting to be what others already were. I wanted to fit that mold. But what kind of aspiration is that?

In high school, I was the social girl, the nice one, voted "most friendly". I was the girl that wanted to help people out, that wanted to be there to catch people when they fell. After my time on Real Chance of Love, I wanted popularity. I wanted fame. I wanted to be something I wasn't.

When I first arrived here at Charm School, I acted completely different than I would in day-to-day life. I had the nerve to come in here within the first week and confess to the producers in my confessional that, "New York isn't here, so there is one HBIC, and that's me." Who did I think I was? I never was a "diva". I wasn't a bitch, let alone the "head bitch in charge".

So why is that what I wanted to be? When Destiney replaced Marcia in the mansion, I "rallied the troops" if you will, and led the charge to fight against Destiney. Who did this girl think she was, coming into OUR house and trying to win OUR game? What I should have really been asking was, "April, who do you think YOU are, yelling at this girl like she is some kind of escaped prison inmate?"

In the beginning, I wanted to win challenges to win them, to avoid the risk of being expelled. And, well, I was pretty successful. Out of the eight challenges presented to us, I consistently came in first in many of them, and I came in the top portions in others so that I also avoided Detention. I only went into Detention one time the entire game, and I was never on the Carpet. (Except for when Queen Latifah made us all step down on there last round. )

The points in this game that really made me realize I was making a transformation were, first, the team challenge. When no one was making the banner but was offering suggestions, I put that aside, took all the suggestions into consideration, and made a banner that I was very proud of. This showed me that I could step up and take initiative, be a leader, not the follower I was on the path to becoming.

The second task that made me realize I was completing a transformation of sorts was when, during the Free Rice lesson, I set a goal for myself to donate 5,000 grains of rice rather than trying to win the lesson. I didn't care if I won, as long as I met that goal. And I didn't only meet that goal, I passed it by over 2,000 grains of rice. I won that challenge, and then went on to get the most votes in the poll to win that lesson. The next lesson, I was voted unanimously as most deserving. Throughout my stay at Charm School, I have consistenly been one of the most active girls and have had the most karma....a little something I noticed. To gain the respect of some of the girls that entered these doors and have as much karma as I do, and the most out of anyone in the entire game, I was very proud of myself.

To end this on a high note, I have a statement and two pictures I brought with me from home. First, the statement; I don't think Charm School is just about changing into a whole different person. I also think Charm School can help you avoid a BAD change, or help you become the person you once were....the person you truly want to be. And that's what Charm School did for me.

I don't want to be this:


"Bad Girl." Really? This must be a mistake, because if I remember correctly, I'm a valley girl at heart and i'm not "hard" at all.

Now, the next picture:


The real me. No fake blonde hair dye. No fake nails. And most of all,....*begins to cry* no fake personality.

Thanks girls, thank you Queen Latifah, thank you Evandro, and thank you Kathy (if you're still behind that judging table). Thank you, for making me the real Promo...the real April, again.

[Queen Latifah]

*Promo steps back*


Finally we have Frenchy

[Queen Latifah]

Good Evening Queen Latifah, and the Deans.

While I wuss in Charm School I huff learned zo mooch aboot zee woman zat I want to be, and not zee woman who Brett Michaels wants which is a streeper from Paris France. And I no longer want to be zat woman.

*rips up speech*

I'm sorry I feel what I say shood come from zee heart...

*starts crying*

I feel like I have come into zis gum as a slutty streeper and I'ff bean wild and partying all zee time no one took me serious. But now I stand here en font off you and I've done a complete 180 I feel like a confident sophisticated powerful woman, And I need to tank you all for zis chance and opportunity. When I heard of some of the other gurhls zaying zat I didn't need Charm School, zey don't know me. I huff offer cum so many obsteekles I wuss streeping for cash, I was sleepeen with men for cash but thanks to you Queen Latifah I now huff zee confidence to do something with my life and I want to be a actress and not a porno actress, I want to be taken seriously and you Queen Latifah you gave me zat confidence to be the woman I've always dreamt of being so Thank you, and Thank you to the Deans

I want to express to my fellow zisters, zat whoever wins and comes out on top.. zeese girls will always be like sisters to me I'm sure at the beginning of zis some of us wanted to rip each others hair out but now, zis is about sister hood and I love these two girls standing next to me.

In conclusion, zee most important thing I've learned in Charm School not only have I learned to learn to luff others, but I've learned to luff myself... If you don't luff yourself zen noone in the world could luff you.

Thank you,

Angelique Morgan

[April Lynn "Promo" Oudshoorn]

Suspense!
Good luck girls.