Christa's contest speech

 

In Christa's contest speech, her first one without any notes, she talked about how she moved from Alaska during a storm in the January. This was during a white out storm where it was so cold that the hair in her nose froze. While traveling, they had three flat tires, with one on their U-Hal and another on their car. During the speech, she also talked about how her back window shattered. Because of the window breaking, she had to strip in freezing weather to get all of the glass out of her clothes- Christa described this as mooning the wolves. While trying to repair the window, they went to a hardware store, and she was trying to convey that she needed plastic to cover the window to the locals, who did not understand what she needed. It took her hours to get back on the road and fix the window with packing tape and plastic.