Monday, March 10, 2008

My first presentation went pretty good. It was for high school kids, many of which were the same age as me.
While preparing to give this presentation, I thought a lot about what kind of effect my age would have on my presentation. I figured, either, they would pay more attention and accept what I was saying more because I was their peer, or they would figure that I didn't really know what I was talking about and that they didn't really need to listen. Maybe they would figure out that I didn't know how to keep a class at attention.
But luckily, they were a pretty good class. They were a lot better at paying attention and keeping relatively quiet then some others I've seen, thank god. I don't know what I would have done. Plus, whenever I needed help with information or with getting the classes attention, the teacher and my mentor were always quick with their help.
We had a second presentation right after that one, which I didn't really want to do. But I did half of it, and my mentor did the second half, and it was all good.

I started working on a new PowerPoint presentation. I really felt that the one we were giving had a lot of useless information, and apparently my mentor agreed. He asked me to make one with forty slides, which is surprisingly difficult. I've gotten it down to eighty-nine...

And lastly, more presentations today, coupled with WAIT team performances. We're all surprisingly tired, seeing as we got a full six hours of sleep.

wish us luck

2 comments:

a diver said...

aughh i wanted to be at those performances! im so jealous.

Kemper said...

my walkabout seems boring compared to yours... it seems like you're always running around. =\


and good luck! =]