I remembered from the Civic Artifact Speech there were certain areas I wanted to cover and practice for this talk, one of which was eye-contact. The activity in class where I had to read out the lyrics of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody definitely helped with focusing where my eyes went. For the content of my speech, I went over all the facts and times in my head in order until I felt I could recall all the information comfortably. I would look over my essay and add interesting tid-bits into my essay and incorporate those into my talk. I wanted to avoid the "valley of awkwardness" I mentioned in a previous blog post and I think I actually did overcome it. I managed to go through all my information rather smoothly and cover all of my important points within five and a half minutes. I would benefit more for future talks if I practiced more in front of live audiences and not just repeated the talk in my head. I think in hindsight I should have also practiced my talk with my v...
copied Let's imagine you're back in elementary school, and you just finished a box of juice. Your homeroom teacher tells you to throw it out, but you, being a good gold-star-getting kid, decide to recycle your juice box (because recycling saves the environment). You go to the recycling bins and browse the labels: paper, plastic, metal. You move toward the paper bin, since the juice box is mostly paper, right? But no! It has plastic too! You then move towards the plastic bin. But wait! Isn't that shiny bit that seals the opening of the juice box metal? Where do you put it? Where does it go?? When did recycling get so hard??? It used to be so simple, back in the good ol' days. You got a bin and you just put stuff in it, no sorting required. Usually, it was pretty self-explanatory what went where, but with the rise of "extreme" recycling, it's critical you put your trash EXACTLY in the right place, or else you might kill a forest or cause ...