Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Can you tell I'm frustrated????

Okay so I'm taking this class...HOLISTIC MEDICINE. I have absolutely loved it BUT that's not the point. We have been assigned to do presentations as our finals and we started giving them this week. The class only meets once a week but it's for 2 1/2 hours. Anyways, the teacher signed up 8 people to give their presentations this week. I was of the lucky first 8. Let me tell you a little about the assignment. 15 minutes....handout....visual....holistic medice related. Sounds tough right? Hmmmm well I decided to do mine on Inner Child Therapy. If you want to know more let me know. It's kind of weird that some people believe in it but at the same time it kind of makes me wonder.....so Monday night I'm making sure I know everything I need to know. Tuesday morning I'm making my note cards, going over my visuals, I even rented a movie to play a clip in class!!! I was set but still as nervous as could be!! ALL DAY I sat and thought about this simple assignment....afraid to get up in front of the class. And when I say nervous, my stomach was in knots and I had a headache, high blood pressure, increase of heart rate AND breathing patterns were crazy. I'm telling you, THIS COULDN'T BE HEALTHY!!!! I'm sitting in class, I have all my papers, stuffed animals, crayons, and my movie by me and my hands' temperature is dropping by the second. The first girl gets up....45 MINUTES LATER the next lady gave her presentations....45 MINUTES LATER the third person got up. So I'm sitting there slowly realizing there's not going to be time for everyone to give their presentation. Am I going to get to? (Ya my mental state totally changed. I WANTED to give my presentation...TODAY!!! I didn't want to have to wait another week and have another good for nothing miserable day!!!!) Well, the pattern of presentations went on....needless to say I didn't get to give my presentation. I WAS LIVID!!!!! How, as a normal human being, could you go on about something you have no clue about for 45 minutes knowing that you were only supposed to drag it out for 15????? BUT the worst part is....I'm going to look like a total dork next Tuesday when I get up and give a freakin' AWESOME presentation for 15 minutes. AND I have to find a different movie because The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is due back at Blockbuster on Saturday!!!! I was so upset by all of this that I was pretty sure the festering zit on my forehead was going to explode because of the pressure in my head!! I was SO ready to ring my teacher's neck for not stopping everyone when they should have STOPPED!!!!! But I'm over it now....hope I still feel that way next Tuesday.

1 comment:

svstuartfam said...

You are the best writer! I am still laughing thinking of your cold hands, stuffed animals, and bulging zit! I can so relate though. The nerve of people to take up 45 minutes!!! I've so been there. Don't they know that it's just a 3 credit course and they will pass whether their presentation is 15 minutes or 45 minutes? And don't they care about the other students. And ya, the teacher...I'd like to give him a piece of my mind. Doesn't he value his time? Surely he would like to have the presentations go quickly and then send everyone home early if need be--so he could go to Starbucks or something? Right? Let us know how things go next Tuesday!