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Tuesday, 8 November 2011 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eighthphaseOddly enough, there is no strong, reliable wireless signal in the library. I suppose I should simply be content that there's a working one, and leave it at that.
Today only four people in my speech class who were scheduled to speak today actually showed up, so we got to leave half an hour early. :D As I sat listening to the speeches that were presented, I got another of those magic inspiration strikes and figured out exactly which topic I was going to do my speech on, as my introduction practically wrote itself in my head. (As I write this, the internet keeps glitching out. It is intensely annoying.) I have only two concerns about the topic I'm going with: first, that I can't cover everything I want to cover, or I'll never be within the time limit, and second, that I can't tell any disbelievers to just gtfo, which was part of what wrote itself in my head.
I'm not even kidding. It went, "On July 20, 1969, millions of Americans sat glued to their televisions, entranced, watching as history was made with the words, 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.' I'm speaking, of course, of the Apollo 11 mission, the historic event in which mankind first set foot on the moon. Some people believe it was a hoax, a government conspiracy, and if you're one of those people, then you can just get out, right now. Seriously. I'll wait."
Other things in my mental draft that will certainly not make it into the final speech include much of the questionable language that inevitably comes up when I talk on something I'm so passionate about, and the fact that I spent all my time watching NASA documentaries as the human hosepipe (although that second one arguably illustrates quite nicely the fact that I absolutely care a lot about this topic.)
I'm debating on what kind of aids I should use. I know there's a video on Youtube of the television footage, but part of me wants to just... talk, and hope that my evident passion and apparent storytelling ability invoke all the interest I need. I'm sure I can, I just don't know if it's the best idea.
I actually forgot that I had this icon, but I was hoping that it was still here. It's certainly relevant, haha.
Today only four people in my speech class who were scheduled to speak today actually showed up, so we got to leave half an hour early. :D As I sat listening to the speeches that were presented, I got another of those magic inspiration strikes and figured out exactly which topic I was going to do my speech on, as my introduction practically wrote itself in my head. (As I write this, the internet keeps glitching out. It is intensely annoying.) I have only two concerns about the topic I'm going with: first, that I can't cover everything I want to cover, or I'll never be within the time limit, and second, that I can't tell any disbelievers to just gtfo, which was part of what wrote itself in my head.
I'm not even kidding. It went, "On July 20, 1969, millions of Americans sat glued to their televisions, entranced, watching as history was made with the words, 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.' I'm speaking, of course, of the Apollo 11 mission, the historic event in which mankind first set foot on the moon. Some people believe it was a hoax, a government conspiracy, and if you're one of those people, then you can just get out, right now. Seriously. I'll wait."
Other things in my mental draft that will certainly not make it into the final speech include much of the questionable language that inevitably comes up when I talk on something I'm so passionate about, and the fact that I spent all my time watching NASA documentaries as the human hosepipe (although that second one arguably illustrates quite nicely the fact that I absolutely care a lot about this topic.)
I'm debating on what kind of aids I should use. I know there's a video on Youtube of the television footage, but part of me wants to just... talk, and hope that my evident passion and apparent storytelling ability invoke all the interest I need. I'm sure I can, I just don't know if it's the best idea.
I actually forgot that I had this icon, but I was hoping that it was still here. It's certainly relevant, haha.