Today, at work I presented (in French!) the project I've been working on for the last ten weeks to the Extended Management Team. Granted, I was doing the presentation with my two advisors but I had to explain how to do specific things on a website (that I made!) in French to about thirty mid- and upper-level managers! :o It was a really good experience.
For the last two days, I've been unbelievably nervous, like, haven't been sleeping well nervous. But yesterday, after I'd eaten dinner I opened a beer, started streaming How I Met Your Mother and when the show needed more time to load, I'd run through my script. Yeah, I don't do well talking in front of people even in English for the most part so I wrote out exactly what I wanted to say and practiced it a bajillion times. When it came to the actual presentation, I was still nervous but not as much. I was able to get through it, I said umm a lot but I didn't ever slip into English, like I sometimes do and I was able to use a few different verb tenses without stumbling over them, which was nice.
And after the presentation was finished and my advisor and I were getting ready to leave, my boss's boss told me I'd done a really good job in front of everyone and the guy closest to me asked how I'd enjoyed my time here. It was such a relief to be done with it.
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