speech

[Guest guest]

Congratulations le on being back at school. I'm 39 (40 in January)

and went back to school last semester. Unlike you though, even with the

weight loss, I am not looking forward to the public speaking class.

Going to try to take it over the summer, so it will just be five weeks

of torture instead of an entire semester. People are always quite

shocked when I tell them how terrified of public speaking I am. I've

always been quite outgoing and fairly well spoken, but just the thought

of this class gives me the creeps.

I got suckered into speaking before Congress about 9 years ago regarding

healthcare, insurance, etc and was constantly being shown on the local

news show. The Today show called me and wanted me to come on and I damn

near had a stroke! Told them that if they wanted to call me during the

show they could interview me over the phone or they could read from the

transcripts of my speech, but no way was I doing that again. Here I am

much older, wiser and a heck of a lot thinner and still shudder at the

thought. I was on the local TV station on Friday with my kids when we

took them to see Harry Potter. They interviewed both of my kids, but

only aired speaking. Leah was quite upset about it. As for me,

didn't look bad, just thankful they didn't stick the microphone in my

face.

I love the idea of your topic and your intro. I'm sure you'll do quite

well.

Good luck to you.

Regina