Stage Fright...

Last Friday, my classmates suggested my name to be the representative of our class for a Public Speaking Contest on English Day that will be held next two weeks. I tried my hardest to secede from this but I can't. They insisted me to join it. Maybe this is the time for me to improve my social skills and overcome my stage fright.

During my final year in high school, I was appointed as the President of Green Club. I had to do a speech during Environment Day at the school hall. Since I knew there will be about 1000 people will be listening to my speech, I practiced for days. Until the night before my speech, I cannot sleep since I get too nervous.

When the day comes, I didn't had breakfast since I don't have any appetite. Everything I did wasn't right. I burned my shirt when I was ironing them. My shoes broke, and I almost left my student card. During my speech, my hands were trembling, so I instead of holding a note or the microphone I put my hands behind so no one could realise that my hands are actually shaking.

I realised something when I'm on stage. When I look at the faces of each of the audience in the hall. My level of nervousness sky rocketed. So, instead of looking at their face, I look at a clock situated behind of the audiences. In this way, the audience thinks I'm having eye contact with them although I'm actually not.

I've Google'd on how to overcome stage fright. There are a few interesting points that I think might work on me. One of them is, make a small note. Just write the main points. In this way, if we forgot about something we can just do a slight view on the small note.

Moreover, do some jokes. Usually, people tend to get bored when they listen to a statistic or data for more than 10 minutes straight. So, by making a joke, the audience will be cheered and find our speech interesting and they'll focus on what we were going to say.

Last but not least is, pretend as if you are chatting to your friends and family members. In this way you will talk smoothly and without any doubts, you won't even feel nervous throughout the session.

I hope I could do a perfect speech next week. Wish me luck. :)

Stage Fright...

Last Friday, my classmates suggested my name to be the representative of our class for a Public Speaking Contest on English Day that will be held next two weeks. I tried my hardest to secede from this but I can't. They insisted me to join it. Maybe this is the time for me to improve my social skills and overcome my stage fright.

During my final year in high school, I was appointed as the President of Green Club. I had to do a speech during Environment Day at the school hall. Since I knew there will be about 1000 people will be listening to my speech, I practiced for days. Until the night before my speech, I cannot sleep since I get too nervous.

When the day comes, I didn't had breakfast since my hands since I don't have any appetite. Everything I did wasn't right. I burned my shirt when I was ironing them. My shoes broke, and I almost left my student card. During my speech, my hands were trembling, so I instead of holding a note or the microphone I put my hands behind so no one could realise that my hands are actually shaking.

I realised something when I'm on stage. When I look at the faces of each of the audience in the hall. My level of nervousness sky rocketed. So, instead of looking at their face, I look at a clock situated behind of the audiences. In this way, the audience thinks I'm having eye contact with them although I'm actually not.

I've Google'd on how to overcome stage fright. There are a few interesting points that I think might work on me. One of them is, make a small note. Just write the main points. In this way, if we forgot about something we can just do a slight view on the small note.

Moreover, do some jokes. Usually, people tend to get bored when they listen to a statistic or data for more than 10 minutes straight. So, by making a joke, the audience will be cheered and find our speech interesting and they'll focus on what we were going to say.

Last but not least is, pretend as if you are chatting to your friends and family members. In this way you will talk smoothly and without any doubts, you won't even feel nervous throughout the session.

I hope I could do a perfect speech next week. Wish me luck. :)