Today we had our first EVER Ted talk. Each and every one of us presented. While the first person commenced their presentation, I started to tremble with nervousness, burying my face in my hands and tugging on my hair. So I thought to myself, mostly thinking about every negative possibility that could ever happen to me while up on stage. For example, what if during my talk I blanked out and just stood there in awkward silence. What would I do then? Maybe run? But what if I tripped? I would be stuck. I lifted my head and looked for re-assurance. By watching one of my peers presentations, I realized how she overcame her nervousness. As she surpassed it, I imagined myself doing the same. I then started to think positively. Not realizing how nervous I was anymore, but how I would look forward to the presentation being over and how I would feel then. My name was called up to the stage. I got up from my seat and walked to the stage excited, but still nervous. As I walked to the stage I quickly grabbed the mike and the clicker. I was ready. Immediately, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, clearing my mind and focusing only on what I was about to say. I then opened my eyes and started talking. As I finished my first slide I pressed on the clicker to move to the next slide, nothing happened. I clicked again with confusion and nothing happened. I walked across the stage in order to get to the computer to see what was wrong. I clicked to move to the next slide and my presentation went blank. I got even more nervous, sweat started to drip down my forehead and I had no idea what to do. I looked at Mr. Topf. He got up from his seat and came up to assist me. My presentation for some odd reason was not working; therefore, Mr. Topf spoke these words, "Stefan's presentation is undergoing tech problems. Until this problem gets resolved, we will have to continue with the following presentation." I was in a crisis. I told Mr. Topf I would get this resolved. I sprinted to the Innovation Academy classroom, picked up my laptop and then kept sprinting until reaching the secondary tech lab. I went to the teacher there and told him I was having trouble with my presentation, that it kept going blank. He then saw my laptop and handed me a mini HDMI cable that would then connect my Microsoft surface to the projector. I quickly surprised him by shouting "Thank you!" I rushed out of the tech lab and headed toward the PAC theater. One of my fellow peers was presenting so I sat down next to Mr. Topf and listened. As my peer finished his presentation, I told Mr. Topf that I was now all set to present. He responded by telling me, " Stefan you will go last." There was one person left to go before me. Then it would finally be my turn to get up on stage. This time, I felt ready. Already having gotten up on stage and started what I could, actually made me realize that I wanted to go back up and correct what I did wrong. With a second chance in front of me, my peer was done, I got up on stage and gave it my all!
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Carole
10/28/2013 03:57:40 am
Great job! I was truly inspired!
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