My expectations for this class were for one, to improve my public speaking skills and two, to get over my fear of public speaking. Getting over my fear of public speaking has really taken me a lot of time. I feel that I can speak better in front of a group of customers at work than I can in front of a classroom. Throughout this class and all of my speeches, I feel that I have improved a bit. More or so, I feel that I began to get comfortable with those around which made me feel less nervous. I was also fairly proud that I could prepare for a speech in less time than I would have had in a regular 18-week semester. My story telling speech was the very first speech that I delivered. It was the first speech assigned and I was only given 24-hours
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When it came to choosing my topic, I actually had two things in mind. One was my final topic which was the Ultra Music Festival and the second was La Tomatina, which was a huge tomatoes food fight in Spain. After having looked up both events, the food fight interested me more but there was not much history to the event itself so I was not sure if I was going to have a lot to say. There was more history to the Ultra Music Festival than I had imagined but it was an event that interested me and gave me a good amount of information to talk about. My level of being nervous was a bit high for this speech because there was a lot of information I did not know that I had to memorize and I was afraid I would stand in front of the class and forget it all. But just like my other speeches I did feel a lot better in the end. At this point in the class, I felt that I was beginning to improve a bit even though me being nervous did not seem to change. My second to last speech was my critic speech. For this, I did not feel nervous at all. To my surprise, that made me happy. It took me a while to decide whether I wanted to do a movie or a restaurant but I feel that I like a lot of movies and don’t focus on the bad effects, which led me to choose a restaurant. For that, I had chosen the last restaurant which I had gone too. I felt pretty good when I was presenting as well as when my speech was
When it came to choosing my topic, I actually had two things in mind. One was my final topic which was the Ultra Music Festival and the second was La Tomatina, which was a huge tomatoes food fight in Spain. After having looked up both events, the food fight interested me more but there was not much history to the event itself so I was not sure if I was going to have a lot to say. There was more history to the Ultra Music Festival than I had imagined but it was an event that interested me and gave me a good amount of information to talk about. My level of being nervous was a bit high for this speech because there was a lot of information I did not know that I had to memorize and I was afraid I would stand in front of the class and forget it all. But just like my other speeches I did feel a lot better in the end. At this point in the class, I felt that I was beginning to improve a bit even though me being nervous did not seem to change. My second to last speech was my critic speech. For this, I did not feel nervous at all. To my surprise, that made me happy. It took me a while to decide whether I wanted to do a movie or a restaurant but I feel that I like a lot of movies and don’t focus on the bad effects, which led me to choose a restaurant. For that, I had chosen the last restaurant which I had gone too. I felt pretty good when I was presenting as well as when my speech was