Serving FBLA for the past 2 years as an officer for FBLA has allowed to me to experience many things I will need in my future as a potential business leader. I have learned to be a leader and become more responsible, and timely with my tasks. I have reinforced my communication skills through the many events, where I have met new people and left my comfort zone. I have also gained confidence in myself. Last year, I did not choose to compete at state even though I had placed at section because I was lacking the confidence.
My ninth grade was pretty cool until the last week of school I let my mouth get the best of me and said some things that I really should’ve not said and because I did I earned the next semester at the alternative school. When school started back I was very sad because I had to go to the “bad” school with all the “bad” kids and I was very nervous. Once I got there it was pretty cool and I really enjoyed it because the classes were smaller and you got more one on one help. My grades went up and my mom decided that I should spend the rest of the year there, which really messed me up because they did not offer any elective classes only the basics . My eleventh grade year was also a disaster because of the struggle of passing my biology state test and I was really distracted and just wanted to go back to the alternative school but my mom and the principle would not send me back.
I took the regents for the third time in January 2011 and again, I didn’t pass. I continued taking the Algebra II Trigonometry class after school, and again took the regents in June of 2011. I passed all my other regents tests including Geometry that month and when I got my results for the Algebra II Trigonometry Regents, I started crying. I finally passed. I was so happy that I didn’t have to worry about the stress of this topic anymore.
The truth is, I knew that I was going to use an old paper, but procrastinated on revision. The morning of peer critique, I woke up in labor and knew that I was not going to make it to class. I had an old copy of the narrative and asked my sister to deliver it to Amber. It made it, but I was not able to ever make any revisions, so
And on this beautiful day I got one step closer to becoming a man because I took my driver’s test, and I passed. I can remember everything like it was yesterday. It was Tuesday the day before Halloween. I woke up to get ready for school with one thing and one thing only on my mind, would I pass or fail my driver’s test. I went to school and I can remember being so anxious to get out of school to achieve this goal that long awaited me, but the school day seemed endless.
Taylor Heskett Professor Raker English 101 January 16th 2013 Peers, Problems and a Presidency “Taylor you’d be great for this position!” I barely heard while I was counting down the seconds until my High school History class was over. “What did you say?” I proclaimed. My teacher, Mrs. Mckannan, elaborated her point by explaining that the election for Senior Class officers was approaching. I had always been a part of committees and clubs throughout High School but never before considered running for Senior Class office. Mrs. Mckannan said there was a major lack of interest this year and very few students were running.
Liz Gomez English 101 Mr. Tafarella 3/9/11 On Monday of last week I woke up with the biggest headache ever and believe me I was not ready to go to class but I really didn’t want to miss the video that Mr. Tafarella was going to show us, so I got up, got ready and decided I had nothing to lose and I went to class. Once at school we had a lot of trouble trying to get the video to work and finally there it was; the most interesting subject I could have ever come across “Jonestown” To tell you the truth at first I was a little bit confused because I had never heard of this story, but once the documentary got going I was not able to take my eyes off of it. After the documentary ended I realized I wanted to know even more. I mean, I couldn’t
I noticed a few moments where I had gotten nervous and sped up my speech, which only led to me getting tongue twisted and I stumbled on a few points. I also kept noting all dates as being in the nineteen hundreds, I was so nervous that I had not realized at the time of my speech that I was making that mistake. I thought I had done a good job on organizing my outline, but after several practice runs I noticed I was going well over the time limit. Shortly before my speech I had omitted a few points, in doing so I compressed the sub-topics of fermentation and pasteurization too much. This made it sound unclear as to what points I was trying to convey in the speech, possibly causing confusion in my audience.
Celebrating an event with twenty five children is not easy. The second stage is analyzing the problem and its causes. After a few months I realized that my assistant was leaving early every time there was a party. Her leaving early was a huge problem for me, because it added more work for me and also doubled the stress. I then began to search and choose an alternative way to resolve this problem which is the third and fourth stage of problem solving.
Some ways of preventing glossophobia are going to speech training courses which help reduce the fear but not cure it. I’ve also been told that imagining the audience in their underwear helps to cure the nervousness. But it makes me feels quite uncomfortable and a bit frightened. Anyway, I’ve been performing on the Founders theatre stage just about every year since I was 6 years old. I’ve never been all that scared of going on stage and just acting.