Hello everyone!
Let me tell you everything that's been going on in my life. I found that the best way to do a presentation is to prepare yourself and rehearse it, you will definitely know what you will be talking about as long as you practice it. Obviously, I gained this bit of knowledge by doing the exact opposite.
I worked on my presentation for about two and a half days, in which most days I was in fact at work or asleep.
So, more realistically, for about 15 hours.
More specifically, 15 hours before the presentation.
Yep, I am not proud of it, but hey it got done. I managed to change every single aspect that I had planned for the presentation and ended up instead with a completely new presentation, in which the only thing that remained the same was the pictures on the slides because I literally decided to change the whole presentation about 20 minutes before it was my turn. Not saying that I did bad, I'm just trying to explain that I could have done a lot better. I am sure that no matter what my presentation was the best I could have done as I hate public speaking and even more, I hate talking about myself like that. Trying to be witty was a real challenge, that I only decided to take when I saw the presentation of a guy who made quirky jokes that actually made sense being in his presentation.
Mine were... Alright, I'd say. Nothing special, but not bad either. At least people laughed.
Besides this presentation, all I really have to talk about is Christmas holiday, Christmas parties and having fun. I'm all about having fun and enjoying life, you should know that by now. But if that wasn't incredibly obvious before, it should be now.
I went to Karolina's work Christmas party and even though it was a bit awkward at first because first of all most of these girls don't even know my name, and second because I will be working with them in the near future, I still didn't know how to approach them. It was only at the club that things got easier for me. I think it was around the time people started getting more drunk and ready to party and actually trying to include me that things shifted. In the end, I had a really fun time and saw a lot of things I never thought I would have. Bless these girls, they were all fantastic and absolutely fabulous.
Christmas holiday.
Right.
All that comes to mind, is Big Shaq's Christmas Freestyle. All jokes aside, I know I should focus on Uni work. But somehow I am still on focusing on work work, rather than Uni work. I know I will regret it soon but for now I see the money sliding into my bank account so I'm not that fussed about it. I know I will start working on things more now. I can see the deadlines coming up and I, Do. Not. want to spend a whole week stuck in the library. Again.
Christmas means family, friends and cheesy Christmas music. I cannot lie, I love all of it. I love jamming out to Christmas songs and to feel that Christmas spirit. I have watched too many Christmas movies, according to my friends, and I plan on watching a lot more. I just really like seeing how predictable they are and I guess it triggers something in me that makes me want to be home and see my family. I guess I just identify with the character that hasn't seen their family in a very long time and then suddenly has the chance to spend a whole of three to four days with family members that are 100% annoying but lovely. Even if I do not have the chance to do so.
At the moment, I believe that I will be alright even if I am having fun at the library. I need to focus on both studies and work so I will be able to make money and get good grades.
Besides that, I found a page on Facebook. It was called JaNoWriMo. It was basically the same concept of NaNoWriMo but in January, and I will attempt it. I hope I will be able to finish what I started in NaNoWriMo because I am actually quite proud of what I have so far. But if I am not able to do that, then I will focus on my dissertation and work on it 'day and night' so do as much as I possibly can in January and then just change it up as I feel the need to. I want to make myself proud with the story I will write for this dissertation and I really want to make it worth the reader's while.
I think this update has turned quite long. I blame myself for not posting anything before. *sigh* What am I to do? Learn from my mistakes?
That would be the smartest answer, but clearly I like to take my time learning so I will take a while to actually change my behaviour still.
Thank you for reading.
In a bit.
Let me tell you everything that's been going on in my life. I found that the best way to do a presentation is to prepare yourself and rehearse it, you will definitely know what you will be talking about as long as you practice it. Obviously, I gained this bit of knowledge by doing the exact opposite.
I worked on my presentation for about two and a half days, in which most days I was in fact at work or asleep.
So, more realistically, for about 15 hours.
More specifically, 15 hours before the presentation.
Yep, I am not proud of it, but hey it got done. I managed to change every single aspect that I had planned for the presentation and ended up instead with a completely new presentation, in which the only thing that remained the same was the pictures on the slides because I literally decided to change the whole presentation about 20 minutes before it was my turn. Not saying that I did bad, I'm just trying to explain that I could have done a lot better. I am sure that no matter what my presentation was the best I could have done as I hate public speaking and even more, I hate talking about myself like that. Trying to be witty was a real challenge, that I only decided to take when I saw the presentation of a guy who made quirky jokes that actually made sense being in his presentation.
Mine were... Alright, I'd say. Nothing special, but not bad either. At least people laughed.
Besides this presentation, all I really have to talk about is Christmas holiday, Christmas parties and having fun. I'm all about having fun and enjoying life, you should know that by now. But if that wasn't incredibly obvious before, it should be now.
I went to Karolina's work Christmas party and even though it was a bit awkward at first because first of all most of these girls don't even know my name, and second because I will be working with them in the near future, I still didn't know how to approach them. It was only at the club that things got easier for me. I think it was around the time people started getting more drunk and ready to party and actually trying to include me that things shifted. In the end, I had a really fun time and saw a lot of things I never thought I would have. Bless these girls, they were all fantastic and absolutely fabulous.
Christmas holiday.
Right.
All that comes to mind, is Big Shaq's Christmas Freestyle. All jokes aside, I know I should focus on Uni work. But somehow I am still on focusing on work work, rather than Uni work. I know I will regret it soon but for now I see the money sliding into my bank account so I'm not that fussed about it. I know I will start working on things more now. I can see the deadlines coming up and I, Do. Not. want to spend a whole week stuck in the library. Again.
Christmas means family, friends and cheesy Christmas music. I cannot lie, I love all of it. I love jamming out to Christmas songs and to feel that Christmas spirit. I have watched too many Christmas movies, according to my friends, and I plan on watching a lot more. I just really like seeing how predictable they are and I guess it triggers something in me that makes me want to be home and see my family. I guess I just identify with the character that hasn't seen their family in a very long time and then suddenly has the chance to spend a whole of three to four days with family members that are 100% annoying but lovely. Even if I do not have the chance to do so.
At the moment, I believe that I will be alright even if I am having fun at the library. I need to focus on both studies and work so I will be able to make money and get good grades.
Besides that, I found a page on Facebook. It was called JaNoWriMo. It was basically the same concept of NaNoWriMo but in January, and I will attempt it. I hope I will be able to finish what I started in NaNoWriMo because I am actually quite proud of what I have so far. But if I am not able to do that, then I will focus on my dissertation and work on it 'day and night' so do as much as I possibly can in January and then just change it up as I feel the need to. I want to make myself proud with the story I will write for this dissertation and I really want to make it worth the reader's while.
I think this update has turned quite long. I blame myself for not posting anything before. *sigh* What am I to do? Learn from my mistakes?
That would be the smartest answer, but clearly I like to take my time learning so I will take a while to actually change my behaviour still.
Thank you for reading.
In a bit.
Your presentation sounds so fun! I miss the days in which my teachers cared about the holidays...
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that you'll try another competition! Hopefully it goes better this time, good luck!
And where is the side blog for the short stories? I'm waiting ;)