In school, I always contemplated just not going to English the day we had a speech or bribing the teacher into letting me skip it or just taking the 0 and flunking. I didn’t of course because I care about my grades, but I was so nervous that my palms would sweat, I would shake uncontrolably, breathe rapidly and contemplate throwing up. I used to practice my speeches for days…10 times a day until I got it perfect. But then when I actually gave it, I somehow got a 10 minute speech down to 4 minutes because I talked so fast. Needless to say, no one could understand a word I said. I always wrote good speeches with good points but the delivery killed it for me.
I am sooooo scared of reliving this and taking Speech in college…I’m dreading it. Knowing me, I’ll put it off until last semester Senior year and live with the looming terror of it everyday. If only it wans’t a required course :(
