Today was OP. I went to school at 8 to be the audience for JiaKiang's group. One of the teacher's phone started vibrating halfway during the speech by the first speaker. I was like - wth?! And during the last speaker's speech, it went off again! It was quite loud. She didn't even do anything about it after the first time it went off!
I was extremely nervous, thank God for some reason that I don't remember, we laughed a lot before the presentation, which calmed my nerves A LITTLE. My speech was almost fully memorized so I did not look at the cue cards and I forgot to flip the cue cards as I wen along. And suddenly I reached a part where I could not remember the words so I started flipping my cards, which took maybe 3 seconds most, but seemed like eternity to me. And I skipped one paragraphaccidentally. I read the first few words and then read the last few words of the paragraph. The sentence made sense, and the paragraph did not contain any points on the slide, so I decided not to correct my mistake. The length of my speech was OK, 4.26 minutes.
During the Q&A I was asked - "How would you convince teenagers to stop eating fast food?" I was so stunned that I took about 5 to 10 seconds to get started. Halfway through my mind went blank and I tired to remember the question. I then gave another point and said that's all.
This is why we were laughing before the presentation.
The modderator asked me: "Where would you be presenting?" Me: "At the front." The modderator appeared to be thinking for a few seconds and then said: "Of course the front."
