University days - Public Speaking

I will never forget my Freshmen year of high school and my Public speaking class. Mr. Ramsey was the teacher and he was an all business, professional, debate team coach, mean, old man. He made the course more terrible than it already was for me at the time. I was new to the school being a freshmen and did not want to look dumb in front of my classmates. The older students told stories of what Mr. Ramsey was like and they tried to scare us even more. The first speech we had to give was a personal informative speech. Mr. Ramsey was very short and veg when it came to instruction on what he was expecting for this speech. Which made me worry even more. The next day we had to give our speech and every hour leading up to that speech I was a nervous wreck. I gave my speech and I was just re-leaved to be done. Although throughout my speech I received dirty, stern, cold looks from the teacher. I did not score well on my first speech lets just say. I asked my dad how I should handle the situation and he said to go talk to him after class. And so I went to talk to Mr. Ramsey that next day to clear up our misunderstandings. I struggled throughout the year to maintain a good grade. Looking back on that class it forced me to mature and handle certain situations, and I am appreciative for that.