Rafal Wadolowski

Today a couple a of friends and I joined ToastMasters. In this club people come in to practice their public speaking not only to get over their fear of public speaking but to also excel in the art of speaking off the cuff. I wanted to join this club for a variety of reasons, the first one being that archery club is on Saturdays, so thats a no from me. But in addition to that, I want to get used to standing and talking to a large crowd of people before I have to do it for an important presentation or social setting.

Some of my old experiences that could have been improved had I been attending this club for a while was when I was a finalist in my high school story telling competition. I was telling a story to a group of 50-60 students, from memory. I remember being really excited , which may have led me to speed through parts of my story, also my legs were pretty wobbly just because of the amount of eyes staring at me.

What I am looking forward to is being around dozen of other students that have the same goal in mind as me, also not only will mr wobbly legs eventually go away after time, but the other club members will offer me constructive criticism and advice on how I could keep the audience engaged all while appearing cool and collected.

And lastly, I got to talk with the president of toastmasters, who’s name is mike, and just like me he is Polish. His family and my family both immigrated to America, which is pretty neat.

And lastly(real this time), I also wanted to join other clubs such as Polish Culture club and adrenalin club, depending on which days the clubs meet up.

(Every time I tried to upload the picture it said error, but its the same photo as the one on Daniel.Maslowski’s blog.)