Update

Its been quite awhile that I have updated my blog, yikes! Everything just seems to happen at once - and sadly, somethings get left in the dust.

Since my last entry I have done A LOT of work on my senior exhibit. After meeting with Mrs. Nobles, we chose the 5 people, we met again looked at the Juniors and Seniors free periods on certain days - the ones that had the larger turn out were the days that we chose to offer times. Then, I spent time calling and e-mailing my 5 representatives for each career. After getting in contact, explaining my project and hopes - I sent them an email asking them to chose which would work best for them. After finally receiving replies from everyone everything was set!

The next step to this was to meet with Mr. Durso to reserve a "meetings period" to present my idea to the Junior and Senior Class, and have sign ups. After we set a date...I seemed to hit my first "bump in the road" so to speak. We had a snow day!!!!! :) As much as I DIDN'T want to face my fear ((PUBLIC SPEAKING)) I just wanted to get it over with and for everything to run smoothly. I was starting to panic because, "what was I going to do?? My first career luncheon was on Monday!!" Luckily I still got my meeting time on Friday. Sure enough, I hit there was no way for me to project my presentation (which I had designed so people could HEAR and SEE ... and to make it less boring!) But I just had to go with the flow. I was SO nervous because as everyone knows I get very anxious when i have to talk in front of people - whether it consists of a small English class filled with 8 people -- or 2 grade levels....it doesn't matter. Just seeing all those eyes glaring at you. What are they thinking? Are they even listening to me? Am I being clear? Am I making sense? Are they interested in what I am talking about? Are they judging me? Same questions race through my head every time. There was no way around it though. This time however I must say, I wasn't nervous at all during the day as I waited for 5th period to come - I got nervous as soon as I stood up - but not NEAR as much as I used to! Which is a step in the right direction. After presenting I received a lot of positive feedback. Which gave me more confidence. Everyone thought it was such a great idea!

I have to go to work now!! I will add more later about the meetings that have already happened and how they have gone...