Blog Post #20

I absolutely hate public speaking! The last time I spoke in public was two weeks ago. I am a sunday school teacher for my church and I teach every other week. The last time I spoke there was only three people in my class. I enjoyed not having many people to teach. I have always been intimidating by public speaking especially when it is in front of a lot of people. My hands and body get all sweaty and I loose my breath a lot from talking. I have to always take big deep breaths. I have taught sunday school for the past two years and I have gotten quite used to it. The nice thing is that I get to teach with my husband. When I have to speak in large crowds or in front of people that intimidate me I get really bad stomach aches.

I like to practice over and over what I have to speak about in public so that I am prepared. I always have to have a paper lined out of what I am going to say because if I get to nervous I forget what I was planning on saying. I also like to pretend like I am not in front of a lot of people. I have always gone by the saying 'Fake It Tell You Make It' and that is exactly what I try to do. I would like to think that teaching Sunday School has helped me with my fear of speaking in public but, it hasn't. I am always just as nervous. When I listen to other people speak I like it when they are confident and I like it when they make what they are speaking about entertaining. I am glad we don't have to get up in front of each other in this class but if we would of had too, I would have.

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