Personal Narrative: My Reputation

From my forehead sweat lands on the floor at a rapid rate creating an enormous body of water larger than the Pacific Ocean. There I sit in period one of my Spanish class waiting for my death to come take me to disappear. My legs began to tremble faster than a cheetah runs. My heart meanwhile beated so fast that at that point I thought that I should be in a hospital. As an individual I was never a fan of public speaking and presentations. To me, presenting my work meant that if I messed up once I would lose everything including my friends, my reputation, and my grade. As class began at seven-twenty AM, my Spanish teacher Mr.Daniels announced that we would present our projects today. He had asked the students if anyone would like to …show more content…
I walked down the aisle to the front of the classroom. The lights in the middle and back of the classroom were turned off and there was only light illuminating where I stood. I looked in front of the dark room and saw thirty sea predator's eye glaring at me trying to catch every mistake I made. I pinched myself hard on the wrist and began. I began first by introducing myself in spanish, “Hola clasé, me llamo Eric…”, everything was going smoothly until the middle of the presentation when I said the wrong phrase in spanish. At that moment the sea creatures had shredded me apart and taken away my friends, my reputation, and my grades. I tried to redeem myself slowly, but as I went on I made more mistakes and I started to mumble. Mr. Daniels stood up and said,” Eric take a deep breathe and continue.” Though I stopped mumbling and continued my presentation the grade I received was not up to my standard. This motivated me to do better in my future presentations because at the end of the day I didn't lose my friends nor my reputation, and though my grades weren't that great it gave me motivation to do better in the next presentation in a few