I think for my first speech, I had the actual speech memorized better than the second run through. I cannot tell you how many times I recorded the second run through because I kept mixing the two speeches up in my head. The first run of Speech 2 I don’t think was very organized and I worked hard on that for the second run through, especially because of the reading chapters this week. The comments also brought up my organization problem in my speech and repeating myself, which I think I improved with the final submission. I think I need to slow down when speaking because I noticed that in my submission. I don’t know if it was nerves or excitement with my object, but that was obvious to me.

I also think I was more serious in the final submission, which is something that you made a comment on. I felt like I was trying to hard to not be so serious, but it didn’t work in my favor and made it worse. Sometimes when I have a critique stuck in my head I overthink it and then it ends up being worse than the first time I was told about it. That’s one of my biggest struggles in general for me. In my opinion, the speech was good and it wasn’t weak, but I do need to improve on things still.