Overcoming Satge Fright

You’d think stage fright would be something I’d gotten over a long time ago considering I’ve been heavily involved with theater and the arts since junior high. And I have relatively speaking. I never get opening night jitters, and having a full house at a band concert doesn’t even phase me. But stage fright is exactly the words I would use to describe my feelings a couple weeks ago. Our school district has a meeting every year where each school in the district presents a program they’ve been working on to better the school. The Open Program was slated to be the program presented by the high school. The “best” part was that the participants of OP would get to present. So we put together a slide show and each person had one slide and one minute. There I was with my minute speech prepared, and I was almost paralyzed with fear. I hadn’t run through it once without messing up, and now I had to do it for every teacher in the whole district. Well there was no way out of it so I took a deep breath and just went for it. My hands shook so hard that I’m surprised I could hold onto the mic, but I think it went pretty well. My classmates did an amazing job though, much better than me. If you want to watch the presentation I’ll put the link below. This link will take you to our google drive page and the very first icon is the video. There also pictures from that event and other activities we've done. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4KcrH0tHsbFZVBrd3hiVHlseGc&usp=drive_web

Another Check-In

Well it’s been quite a while since I last checked in…again. I’m kind of embarrassed at how badly I’ve been keeping up with this. I should probably update you on my project and academics. For my project, I have finished conducting the interviews and have started on the writing process. It’s kind of hard to measure progress in that area but I think I’m about half way done with those. With math, I have finished all of the chapters and I am going to take my final this coming week. I am a little behind with my English standards, but I am confident that I can get them done by the end of the year. I am finishing up a book to write a paper about, and I’m turning in an essay this coming week I did about racism in present day. Well that pretty much sums up my academic life right now, and I promise to actually check in more.