mockingbird

Giving my debate presentation today. I'm really nervous.

Last night I tried to make some improvements but I was so exhausted that I just couldn't do it. So I'm going to try to this morning when I have a break before that class.

My group all has a lot of information and a lot of powerpoint slides. For me, my points are less "factual" and more having to deal with the logic behind a few points.

Originally I typed out exactly what I wanted to say. Usually when I do public speaking I get nervous and I talk fast. So usually I do that to help me slow myself down. It usually doesn't work very well, but it's the best I can do. I decided maybe I would try to put my information in bullet points on notecards, but I didn't make it flow very well so I'm going to have to redo it. The issue with that is also that if I get flustered or talk too fast it'll be easier for me to make myself finish fast.

I don't know. It's kind of frustrating. My part of the debate (it's a group thing) didn't yield much information so I didn't really have the ability to add a lot to it. So now I'm not really sure what to do. I can either put the "speech" type thing on my notecards and possibly lose points or I can do the bullet points and possibly not meet the time I should be talking in.

Blah. I need to get better at public speaking. I would be better with this one specifically, but the fact that my information might not be enough is frustrating. Feeling inadequate is making me nervous.