Assembly!

...ok... i didn't know this would end up being such an essay... below is just my crazy rambling and recalling of a quite small little thing that happened today. but i was pretty nervous about doing this assembly, so it's quite important to me... anyway, read on at own risk!! :O

Wow, had to speak in part of an assembly today. To be honest, i'd been dreading doing this assembly- you see a couple of months ago i was pretty ill and couldn't come to school. This meant that i missed a prefect/ senior students meeting, and apparently they decided that it was time to do an assembly where the person speaking would moan to the rest of the year about our sixthform common room and the mess. And guess what, they all nominated ME! I wasn't even there! mean right? -hehe, i'm being pretty dramatic, apparently it was for a good reason, because they thought i'd do a good job. which is always nice.

Anyway, i tried preparing the speech yesterday, and was just saying roughly what i wanted to say out loud. And my mum heard and said, 'No, don't do it like that. Be more straightforward, don't sugar-coat it!' and all that. So i completely changed my approach to it. Then later on my sister heard me saying it (this was at about 1-2am in the morning), she came into my room and said, 'No, no. Not like that. Just be more casual, and she told me how to phrase it.' I got kinda frustrated because i'd just changed it. But here's the thing i've learned- my sis is right in pretty much everything she advices... it's freaky.... :O

So i went to school with a different kind of approach to it... a bit confused i'll add... I then went over it during my free period. Some of my friends helped and commented. Some said, nobody's going to listen, we've all heard it before, other's said don't be too moany.. all that kind of stuff.

About 10 mins before the assembly i went down to get ready. The headboy and headgirl were both there, saying the doors hadn't been opened yet. (I'm deputy headgirl- btw) So we waited outside, while i told the headboy what i was planning to say. He said, no you need to say more about blah blah blah... and he started telling me to add all this stuff in pretty much last minute! So i was pretty thrown... I tried arguing back on some points saying they weren't really necessary, and how people don't want to listen to a moan, they wanna be hearing a student on their side just informing them. I kinda panicked a bit...

Anyway, we're in the assembly room, and our teacher is rambling on about stuff for a while... blah blah blah.... and for some reason i can feel my heart thudding quite loudly- and i'm thinking, 'what the heck?' i've done tons of assemblies before, why am i so nervous? anyway, the thudding died down before i came on... thank goodness...

started with saying 'hi guys, just wanna talk about the sixthform and keeping it clean an tidy'- and gave a huge smile. And it went really well! At one point there was a bit of applause- when i dramatically mentioned one of the prefects amazing dishwasher rota timetables... lol.... and then at the end, i said 'yeah, that's it, thanks!'- and they clapped! :D at which i giggled a little bit before introducing the headboy to talk about whatever he was talking about.

Anyway, moral of the story is, Face your fears! It was great! Got tons of really nice, supportive feedback from my fellow lovely peers! Man, i love my year!

*does happy dance* yay! who would have thought you could be applauded for moaning? i must just be special... lol.. (kidding)

:D i'm a happy one!