Reflection

In the summer while I was deciding which classes to take, I needed help and guidance. My dad advised me to take thr class public speaking as he took it in college. His public speaking experience was great, he said he learned a lot from this class. He learned to be more open, not shy, and the basic aspects of speaking. He said without a doubt I should take this class as it will help me in the future. So without any more thinking I knew which class I would be taking. After long guidance and help, I decided and knew I had to take this class. Coming into school, this was probably one of the classes I was unsure and not looking forward too. Without a doubt this is one of my favorite classes and a class I began to like. First day of school started off well. Once it was time for  public speaking, I was nervous and did not know what to expect. The first week, was not that great. It was boring and we didn't really learn anything. We did unnecessary stuff and things that just didn't amuse anyone. We just did stuff that was irrelevant. After we overcame the beginning we started to learn about voices and projection. I knew I was outgoing and I thought I was good at speaking. We ended up taking videos of me speaking. It was crazy how bad I was at speaking. I kept repeating myself and I never knew I say um a lot. This took many multiple speeches before I corrected myself. Correcting yourself speak is very difficult, because you don't realize it. The other members of this class were jokes, but they were great help. They really showed me who I was and what I needed to work and improve on. It really opened my eyes. There are many things that I didn't know I did that were eye dropping to me. After learning about projection on our voices, we moved on about debates. There are many skills about debates that I had no idea. Such as, refuting, good questions, good responses. The biggest skill I think that helped me was the ability to refute. Refuting is always a key but doing it in the proper way. The first debate was to th and unorganized, we learned from our mistakes and did it better next time. The 2nd debate was better. We were organized and had a lot better structure. After learning about debates, we started our final projects. Our final project was our senior speeches. Not being a senior I decided to use this opportunity and have some fun with it. I put all the aspects I learned and put them to the task. The final speech definetly took me a while to write and plan. I believe as well as my classmate believe I have improved tremendously. This class has taught me so many things. I will use and used all the task many times in my life. One thing you do is talk a lot throughout the day, you can either be good at it or bad it's your choice. If you want to be good at it, I'd encourage everyone to enroll and take this class