After performing my speech, overall, I feel an extreme weight off of my shoulders. I had a lot of restless anxiety when it came to performing this in front of a classroom. One of the things I had to continue to remind myself was that I was in a small class with people I feel I generally know. Remembering this fact eased me, as last year in some of the classes for my previous major were very big. I really like the concept of small classrooms and I feel comfortable sharing my thoughts and using my voice. In terms of my performance itself, I am a little aggravated with myself that I went over time. I had rigorously practiced speech and slimmed it down tremendously to hit the time mark. My biggest issue with not hitting my time mark was there were so many points I wanted to go into detail about. The time restriction limited this. However, I feel that I did really well on this assignment and feel more confident as an emerging public speaker. It’s important I get used to publicly speaking as I am a Communications and English major, a lot of discussing there.
Journal #7
