At the end of the day we were assigned a particular point of interest that will be on the city tour we will go on tomorrow. We had a few minutes to create a word picture of that feature and then stand with the mic and present it in a 30 second description. My topic was Treasure Island
A little less queaziness this time. But still a face flushing rush.
The short version is...Treasure Island is a manmade Island built with 20 million cubic feet of sand and mud dredged from the bottom of the bay. It was created to be the site of the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939. It was scheduled to become San Francisco Airport after the Expo closed but with the outbreak of WWII it became a Navy base instead. The base has been closed since 1997 and now the area is primarily residential.
The long version is here: http://tinyurl.com/6jalug
Tomorrow we take a city tour as guests in the morning with a guide on a motor coach and in the afternoon we take a city tour as the guide. That is, on the coach, with the mic, describing the points of interest. Queaziness, thy name is microphone.
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7 comments:
ahhhhhhhhh... the moment of truth !! Just picture them all in their underwear ! (although, that never worked for me !).... You'll do great.... Can you find 34 apples in a hurry today ?
Al Baby!
Everytime you get handed the mic, just remember your days and nights spent leading us to karaoke fame!!!
Hey, we don't miss you anymore, now we're just jealous that you are there and we are stuck here!!!
And I don't care how big that damn walk-in closet is, you'll still have to still don't have enough room for all your pashmina's!!!
hey
its only a mic - pretend you are talking to your many relatives -
the ones you haven't met yet!
you can do it - you are the expert!
good luck and have fun!
OMG... Yes... I understand how you feel, my love.. How I hate those damn seminars! But here is the thing.. the underware illusion (no go- too scarry!) Just remember-you are all in the same boat and hardly anyone feels comfortable talking in front of people.
Plus your ass looks much smaller while you are holding the mic!
Just remember, most of the people on the tour know even LESS than you do, so you can start to make up neat facts if you forget. AND, it's easier to talk about yourself, so just tie it back to your lovely children and grandchildren, and you can't fail.
If all that fails, maybe you should tell them to picture YOU in your underwear, at least you'll get a laugh out of them.
Knock'em dead!
The thought of you speaking in front of a bunch of tourist with a microphone is making me queazy too... :-)
Sorry I can't be more inspirational but that's hella scary!!!!
Oh man! I would be totally nervous too...but if you're anything like Chrissy, and I know you are, I have a feeling you will knock 'em dead. They're gonna love you!
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