velvetechos | (no subject)

Dealing with people has never been my strong point. Alright, let me rephrase that, dealing with people in a confrontational, or even slightly disagreeable manner has never been my strong point. Am great an encouraging, consoling, advising, problem solving, and sticking up for others. Am absolutely horrible at sticking up for myself, confronting, or arguing. Unless it's some sort of silly political or ethics debate among friends. Ki just doesn't speak up. Ever really. So, maybe that's why the advisors at school suggested this communications course. It's a speech course, and it's scaring Ki more than the idea of thousands of little spiders crawling all over my tootsies in my sleep would, but, maybe it'll be good for me? Oh god, oh god, class hasn't even started and am on the verge of tears. They're going to eat me alive, aren't they? This is going to involve lots and lots of speaking in front of people. Holy shit, holy shit holy shit, oh gods, now they've gone and made me curse, didn't they? You see that? This is a bad, bad, bad, very bad idea. But it could be good for me? Ki refuses to do badly at school, will have to force meself up and in front of the class, and maybe Ki'll be brilliant, who knows. Oh my god. So close to having a little break down.

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Delve deep inside of yourself and find that part of you that I knew in elementary school. You were definitely more confrontational then. :-D

Good luck with speeches. I hate public speaking. I'd rather sing and dance in front of people than speak. BLECH!

I think you'll do well with speaking. I am really shy, but speech was one of my favorite classes in HS. I kind of cheated, though. We were supposed to just write notes on notecards, but I would write out the entire speech word for word. I would memorize the whole thing, but it was nice having the cards there just in case I froze up. I wonder if you could get away with that in college speech classes?