I completed my second speech today, where the objective was to organize my speech. I talked about the life of being a twin (I have a twin brother) and organized it into positives and negatives. I was nervous before my speech, but not as much as I was before my icebreaker. Overall, the speech went very well. I spoke for around 5 minutes and forty seconds and the required time range was 5 to 7 minutes. My evaluations said that my use of humor was great and that I looked more confident than on my last speech. Some things that I needed to work on were my movement and eye contact with the whole audience. I struggled with these on my first speech as well, so for my third speech I will try to focus on these two elements specifically.
Although my senior project is coming to a close and I will be giving my presentation next week, I will definitely stay in Toastmasters over the summer right up until I move out for college. I'm grateful that ThunderRidge has this senior project program, because without it, I would have never gotten the courage or motivation to join a club like this on my own. I will try to get as many speeches done as I can and I will continue to update this blog with my experiences and feelings as I continue improving my speaking skills.
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