Uggh. At long last.
I just turned in my late History assignment on Walter Reed, which was meant to be an oral presentation on Thursday, but... didn't turn out that way.
Maybe he'll make me present it next week, but I hope to God he doesn't.
Even though, my last oral assignment went surprisingly well! I was quite proud.
It was for Environments and Econmics, and it was about the Southern Bluefin Tuna Overfishing Crisis. And I did a pretty good report and made a pretty slideshow with those gifs I posted a while back.
Just before that one though, I had to do an inner monologue in English for either To Kill A Mockingbird, or Mississippi Burning, and I chose the latter, since I hadn't even read the former (and admittedly still haven't, even though our final exam was a news article on whichever one we hadn't chosen, and I just bullshitted through it).
But back to the point, when I initially tried to do the monologue, we'd set a time for me to pesent just in front of a few friends and the teacher like I did for the last English oral, and I was all ready to do it, not even too worried up to when I was up in front of the little group.
It was insanely bad, and probably worse than before; I just burst into tears without getting even the first word out! I was so pissed at myself. So I ended up having to get Sophie to video tape me doing the monologue and then I turned it in that way. It was the worst ever.
But this time, for the tuna oral, I read it all out for the teacher, Sophie, and Freya, and it went pretty smoothly. We had a few glitches with the stupid powerpoint and the stupid school computer which was annoying, but I actually read the entire thing!
I got a very acceptable grade too, which I was also proud of: B, A-, B+ or something like that. I know there was an A-, which was fucking awesome imo.
Makes up for the failtastic effort I put into Maths and... well. Mostly just Math. I only answered completely like two questions out of however many there were, and I was really unsure about them. Haha. Yeah.
I should post the monologue :D
Because it's kind of like writing a story.
I chose the character Deputy Pell from Mississippi Burning, and the monologue was supposed to reflect the character's personality/thoughts/beliefs on the events and themes such as racism, and physical abuse in this case, from the movie.
It was quite fun, actually, even though it did take me a while to get to writing it.
Which is probably another reason I'm bad at oral presentations, because I never get the actual report/script part finished in time to have time to practice.
The monologue issss under the cut.
( funny. their kids are so cute. )