
This past week we had to presentations for my
swimming class. I couldn't get a hold of anyone in my group. It was the night before we were to present, so I decided that I was just going to do the whole thing myself. My groups
assignment was to explain all the programs offered by the university pool, aka the Max Bell Regional Aquatic Center. Much of the mark depended on creativity so I decided I would have the two girls start out by complaining that they were bored and that there was nothing to do. Then I would enter "never fear the Max Bell Regional Aquatic centre Man is here!" then I would proceed to tell them about all the
programs offered by the pool. So I write the whole thing up as a script so they can just read it. I e-mail it to them and say I hope you like this i think we should meet at 8h30
tomorrow to run through it. Our presentation was at nine. I show up the next morning only one girl is there to practice and I forgot she was a
Chinese exchange
student and could barely speak
English. We read it through a couple of times without the other girl. Right as class starts, she shows up. She says she hasn't had time to read it and wants to practice. So we go into the hallway and as soon as we are there she is like "oh, did you guys see the presentations on
Wednesday they were
soo good! what are we going to do?" Me and the
Chinese girl looked at each other confused. "How about we just do this ?" she asked holding the script. "
OK but we need music . did you bring any music?" I'm like "no...? I
brought a superhero outfit." then she says "
OK well I don't know what we are going to do. We have to come up with a way to engage the audience." I tried to tell her as nicely as I could that it was probably too late for that. " i guess we will have to improvise as we go." she said. Then, just as we were about to read the script, the teacher calls us in because, of course, class is starting. So we went in and did our presentation having never read through it. It actually went really well.
5 comments:
Caleb is that my white towel? You have 5 thousand towels but you use mine! All i have to say is, why?
I think class presentations would be alot more entertaining if we all wore tighty whities over our pants.
This blog is so great. Every time I check it, there's something new. Unlike those crappy blogs that float around the internet wasting precious bandwidth.
This is Jess, I'm stealing Matt's identity. Finally I can comment on the horrors of group projects! Your tale brought back alot of bad memories! I was thinking of going back to school soon, but if I have to deal with people like that...
Caleb why has this blog been so unceremoniously abandoned?
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