Public Speaking Course

I'm happy to tell you that at long last, I've completed all of my challenges. Finally, it's time to tell you about the last challenge - №10. I had to tell my favourite singer how much I appreciate his work and ask for a photo with him after the concert. To be frank, I've done that challenge a while ago but I assumed it to be the most difficult and intriguing one, so I put it at the end of the list. So, in November I've been to the concert of my favourite group OQJAV, which came to Novosibirsk for the first time. The concert was great, and when it was over, my friend Alina and I didn't hurry home - we waited for the band to come out. While I was waiting to accomplish my challenge, I even got lucky to take a photo with a young actor from Globus - he was at the concert too. Actually, it was really funny, he was astonished that someone wanted to take a photo with him as he's not so popular. Finally, the group members were free and came out to the audience. Ali...

Hi hi! Today I'm going to tell you about my 9th challenge, which was to dance to my favourite song in a public place. I decided to do it during my winter holidays. One evening my friend and I were having a walk near the Christmas tree in the centre of Novosibirsk and we thought it was the best place to do it - it was crowded with people having fun. I felt exceedingly scared, because I'm that kind of person who is afraid to make fool of himself in front of other people, and I consider it to be my flaw, which this challenge helped me to overcome. My friend turned on one of my favourite songs - 'Lose yourself to dance' by Daft Punk (even the name of it sounds appropriate for this situation, and also this song is really energetic and happy) So, I started to dance. At first, I danced in a shy manner as there were many people, some of them were looking at me with a question in their eyes, some started smiling. But soon I became more confident. All in all, I danced for ab...

Hello, dear readers! Today I'm going to tell you how my challenge made me a little happier. My 8th challenge was to make up with an old friend who I stopped talking to. When I came up with this idea, I've already known what friend I want to make up with. So I decided to make it a challenge, as I felt uncomfortable and a little afraid to be the first one to do it after a long time of not talking. The story is that I had a school friend Yulya, who used to be my best friend, but after the graduation, she moved to Saint Petersburg and we became kind of busy with our studies and new university lives. And as it happened, we stopped even texting each over about 5 months ago. Nevertheless, we always had fun together and she was really supportive, so I missed her. Long story short, I texted her first on the New Years Eve, wishing her happy New year. As she said, she was happy to hear from me, and our conversation kept going, we tried to catch up for the last 5 months. Finally, I t...

Hi everyone! This semester is almost over, and so is my public course. Due to that reason, it's the high time to assess my progress in the art of oratory using the same questionnaire that I've done at the beginning of the course.  Last time my result was 48 points . Today as I've accomplished it I got a much higher result - 64 points ! As you see, my level of oratory has improved - thanks to the public speaking course.  During it, I've done lots of tasks concerning speech structure, creative methods of writing, effective tips and strategies - and after all, that all helped me to fight my stage fright and insecurity!

Hello there! Today I'm going to tell you about my seventh challenge, which was to have a conversation with a stranger at my university. As you might have noticed, I'm trying to be more comfortable in communication with strangers - so it was my next step to conquer my shyness. In a nutshell, once after my fitness class, I decided to have a small talk with the girl who goes to the same group as me and also studies on the foreign languages faculty. In fact, we'd never really spoken before that day ], though she seemed to be nice. That evening, while we were packing our bags, I just asked her how her studying was going on, and I suppose she was quite surprised to hear that question. However, as the question of studies is always interesting to discuss, our conversation was evolving and we talked for about 10 minutes, she started to ask me some questions about my previous exams and everything about the faculty. So, now I've got a new acquaintance, we can laugh together on o...

My sixth challenge was to suggest going somewhere to a friend I rarely go out with. I completed it successfully about a month ago. Long story short, I went to see a theatre performance which I just adore and after that, I wrote a huge text about how great it was to the conversation of my 5 friends who are actually my groupmates. The thing is that we are quite close and we talk to each other every day, but in fact, we practically never go out to some places except each other's flats or the New York Pizza nearby our uni. Of course, they know my incredible passion for theatre and Globus in particular, however, none of them is really into that and they go to theatres really rarely. But that time they liked the way I was describing my amusement. As days went by I was thinking about the way to talk them into going and seeing it with me and about the way I should persuade them. Frankly, I didn't want to be intrusive and irritating, but I really wanted them to sincerely become intere...