One Down, One to Go
I'm finally done with the most nerve wracking part of my semester - my speech. I thought it was going to be pretty easy at first - five minutes seems like a really long time to stand up and talk in front of an audience about a topic you don't like. However, we got to pick our topics, and I swear, I had a much harder time trimming my speech down to 5 minutes. I ended up clocking in right around the 5.5 minute mark. I know it probably sounds weird, but I honestly wouldn't have minded doing a 15-20 minute speech on my topic. My topic was on why/how to help your older relatives use blogging as a social outlet. I have to thank my grandma C. and Ann of Roc Rebel Granny for the inspiration for my topic.
I ended up deciding to do an extemporaneous speech, and just talking to the class about my topic, so I didn't spend 5 minutes with my eyes glued to note cards. This ended up being fortunate, since I hit the one minute warning when I had about 2 minutes of stuff I wanted to talk about. I was able to to hit the high points on my last slide and transition into my conclusion before the 30 second warning. I made a high A on my speech, which was a little surprising to me. About two words into my introduction, I felt like I was the patient of the week on House and for some reason, he'd decided to replace my blood with adrenaline. I guess it didn't show as much as I thought it did.
Tomorrow I need to go in and actually take my final for the study skills class and post my speech/end of the semester evaluations and I'm on summer vacation. (Well, for a week or so until the summer semester starts up again.)
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