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Originally posted by Night Stalker:
Congrats on your speach Moni!
This guy sounds like a big loser with huge self image issues. Making fun of people in a pub speaking class? Everyone is in the same uncomfortable boat, what a pogue. Face it, the only way to get good at pub speaking is to .... do it. I had a pub speaking block of instruction with the Army, not one of the LTs dared rag on anyone for slipping up. I guess I'm finding it hard to believe that a tattle tale hasn't grown up by college....
Nice speach though and CHEERS [img]graemlins/cheers.gif[/img]
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Thank you Night Stalker!
The guy has an ego, that's for sure! He's a swim instructor and very self conficent when in the public eye. As much as I would have hated to have him point and laugh, I can feel good that as nervous as my own speech was, it was stilll better than his. He intended to inform us on the benefits of teaching a young child to swim but ended up comparing different swimming strokes from beginners and experts. The instructor very politely ripped him a new one if you know what I mean.
Mark,
I did catch myself saying "Um"
once yesterday LOL...it was when I realized how bad my knees were shaking and I laughed...it was in the first part of the body where I was "checking off" (on myself lol) the physical manifestations that the fear has on people...I looked down and laughed (one of those honest bursts of a belly laugh lol) and then thought they might all think a sudden outburst of unexplained laughter was among the symptoms and feeling like I have to explain caught me off guard...I had to though since they couldn't see my legs shaking...I kid you not, it was like trying to balance on 2 blocks of wobbling Jell-O from the knees down! They laughed too once they knew why I did.
I did notice how bad the sounds make an otherwise good speech! My friend's notes (printed out on one of the library PC's) came out all screwed up and she had a tough time following them. She's the one who went 3 minutes over. Other than saying Um quite a few times, she did very well though.