Yesterday was my turn to be the secretary in class and it was really hard for me to act as if I were the teacher due to my shyness. It is really difficult to think when there are so many eyes looking at you, waiting for you to say something, and many times I got my words mixed just because I couldn't think clearly in my head. Actually I was a bit quite nervous.
When it comes to talking in public, if it's a planned conference, where you maybe explain some slides which you have been working during a long time and you know exactly what to say and how to say it, because you have prepared it for many days, I've got no problem; but if I have to be the one who manages the class, telling people what to do or not to do, and things like that, it's really difficult for me to do it well. Maybe I should have prepared what I would have to do as the secretary, just as if I was explaining any other sort of thing, and that way I would maybe have done it better as I think I did, because spontaneity is something I am really short of. But even if I had decided to do that, I wouldn't have had enough time, because I was chosen just the day before...
But, despite all of this, I think it is a great and really valuable experience, which helps me get rid of that stupid shyness that keeps me from doing many things. And once you do something like this, you realize what you are doing wrong in order to change it.
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