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