Conference

          Last Wednesday I had the opportunity to present an investigation about the tourist perception towards Puerto Rico in a forum held in one of the amphitheater of the general studies building, DMN. My group was composed of two other members, Sabrina and Barbara which were the ones who made this job came together and I thank them both for their effort and commitment. The presentations started at 1:00PM so I arrived at 12:55 and I saw Sabrina and Barbara on stage already and I freaked out. I though that the hour was changed and I was not aware of it and that I would get zero points and that I would fail the class. It took me a couple of minutes to realize that they were in charge of the previous presentation and that was the reason they were on stage so early.

     So finally the forum began and I was sitting nervously waiting for my groups turn. When it was finally our turn to present my heart started pumping really fast, my hands got sweaty and I was trembling. I tried all the relaxation techniques I could do with out making it to obvious that I was doing them. Breathing deeply and controlled, counting backwards from a 100, making power poses but non did work at their full potential. When it was my turn to talk I was struggling with the microphone because you had to put it certain way so you could be heard properly. My first part I had to read from the power point presentation because it was a long cited work. The first part was over I had read the decently and broke the ice with no big problem. For the second part I had planned to read quickly the bullets and talk about that topic. This was what I had prepared for and I was doing ok but suddenly some lady in the back literally yield and laugh really hard, so much that everybody could hear her and all of that while i was talking. As she interrupted me my whole face changed I went from being very nervous to being so angry I wanted to insult the lady. Apparently everybody in the room notice my anger by the way my face changed when I heard the comment. After this I lost focus and I started to make very stupid errors in my pronunciation of words and lost my rithym. After finishing the presentation we ran out of time for the Q & A section which i would have loved to address the lady that interrupted my presentation.

     Overall this was a very professional experience I like to dress up for this occasions because is the only excuse I have to wear my good clothes, even though I am always in shorts and tank tops I do like to dress properly. Speaking in front of an audience is something that is very challenging to me but that I want to master, so this was a good starting point and I know I have along way ahead to become a great confectionist.

Journal Review Blog

     This was a free writing activity in which we had to make at least five entry's a week for eight weeks with a set of simple rules which were; Don't cross-out, don't worry about spelling, punctuation and grammar, don't get logical, go for the jugular and finally keep you're hand moving. At the end of this activity I had completed 46 entrees. My writing changed a little during this period. At first i could not avoid getting logical with the things that i was writing because that's just me and it was hard breaking that habit. About half way into the activities the change was more appreciable. With regards to grammar I have never been very strict about it and it was really easy not thinking about it. Also with every session I noticed that I became more structured  with the way I wrote like I adapted to writing without lines. Writing the first though was the most inconsistent thing for me because that was dependant on the type of thought and how i felt in that particular moment. On January 30, 2015 I made an entry in which i talked about what happened to me the night before. I started explaining the environment and the circumstances of the situation and half way I had arrived to what would be the climax of the story. Then after that i was expressing how i felt about what I just explained. This activity was of much self enrichment, I as wrote this things I realize that i am a very emotional person and also a sensitive one because everything that happened in my surroundings had an impact in the way I felt. Also as a writer I learned that I am very structured even when i am traing not to be so, and that's reflects a lot about me and who I am. As a puertorrican I learned that I am very proud of my culture but very angry towards my people or at least some of them. This activity makes me discover the traveler inside me after describing the things I saw in many of my entrees I understood that I enjoy looking at things and traing to understand their function in their surroundings.

Blank Paper, the hardest part was to begin writing