Speech! Speech!
Sep. 9th, 2009 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerMy internets are working! Yay!
Sadly, I cannot take full advantage of them tonight, because must prepare a speech to my old fifth grade teacher's new class tomorrow. It is not entirely clear what I am speaking about, but I agreed out of an excessive love of public speaking.
No, truly. I know that people, especially shy people, are supposed to hate public speaking, but it's actually really fun. You're being evaluated entirely on your ability to amuse, and I can be amusing IN THREE LANGUAGES so I think I've got that pretty sewn up.
I once made my entire Russian class go "Awwwwww" with a particularly tragic intonation of the Russian alphabet. It's all in the facial expressions.
However, I have never tried out any of these facial expressions on eleven-year-olds, so. What do eleven-year-olds like, anyway? Presumably tragic intonations of the Russian alphabet are right out. Should I bring in my CIA pen? Do they still read Harry Potter? What if they ask me questions about college drinking? Is it a bad idea to start with a short joke about myself?
I remember being kind of awed by college students at that age, and certainly kids are rarely obnoxious in the clever mortifying way they are in the movies. But it's still intimidating.
Sadly, I cannot take full advantage of them tonight, because must prepare a speech to my old fifth grade teacher's new class tomorrow. It is not entirely clear what I am speaking about, but I agreed out of an excessive love of public speaking.
No, truly. I know that people, especially shy people, are supposed to hate public speaking, but it's actually really fun. You're being evaluated entirely on your ability to amuse, and I can be amusing IN THREE LANGUAGES so I think I've got that pretty sewn up.
I once made my entire Russian class go "Awwwwww" with a particularly tragic intonation of the Russian alphabet. It's all in the facial expressions.
However, I have never tried out any of these facial expressions on eleven-year-olds, so. What do eleven-year-olds like, anyway? Presumably tragic intonations of the Russian alphabet are right out. Should I bring in my CIA pen? Do they still read Harry Potter? What if they ask me questions about college drinking? Is it a bad idea to start with a short joke about myself?
I remember being kind of awed by college students at that age, and certainly kids are rarely obnoxious in the clever mortifying way they are in the movies. But it's still intimidating.
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Date: 2009-09-15 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-15 09:06 pm (UTC)I think I should consider becoming a teacher. Do you think I would scar a bunch of eight- to twelve-year-olds if they were placed under my tutelage?