Slideshow & Text Alignment

I have inserted Slideshows plugin for my wordpress site and it looks really good. But I would like to have my slideshow and my paragraph of text running next to each other. But when I insert my slideshow and then my text, they automatically go above and below one and other. Can you explain to me very simply how I would go about sorting this and if code has to get added, then where it should be placed. Thanks

http://wordpress.org/plugins/slideshow-jquery-image-gallery/