Public speaking

Ok, so today I don't have much time to write, because I'm busy reading through a book of public speaking for a course at school. I thought I would have time, but as it turns our I have to return that book on Thursday, because some forty people coming out of nowhere have reserved the ten books in the university library, so I can't keep it longer like I was planning.

Then again, you failed to write anything on Friday, so maybe it doesn't matter if I write short today.

It's not like I'd even want to read that book, because it seems pretty useless to anyone who has any idea about how to speak when there's more than a handful of people there. Basically I've read 90 pages so far and pretty much all I've learned is this:

1. You can't talk to elementary school kids the same way to talk to adults.
2. People take you more seriously if you have some authority or even statistics backing you up.
3. Tell the stuff in a logical order.
4. Start with something interesting.
5. Talk clearly and loud enough. And avoid accents. You know, if Finnish language had accents.

And my reaction to this is No way, I never knew you have to speak loud when you're talking to a lot of people!

With, you know, a huge load of sarcasm embedded.

I'm not really interested in public speaking anyway. I'm on this course only because I want to take an argumentation class in the spring, and I can't do that until I've done this one.

Right now rest of school is amazingly fun, though, so that's good.

Could you please write something too, ever? I want to read interesting stuff you write!

~matu