Stagefright! :(

I was going to rant about this earlier but just didn't have the interest to do so.

We had to talk in front of our fellow coursemates from both groups today. That makes it about 40 people in total. We pitched about our student magazine ideas and got peer assessed by the other students in the classroom. We only heard about both groups being present this morning so I had absolutely no time to adjust to the new situation. I was sort of mentally prepared to have the pitch just to my own classmates, but having complete strangers in the classroom just made me really nervous.

I've never been good at talking in front of an audience. I was feeling quite ok when waiting for my turn but the second I said "I'll go next" I started worrying like anything. When I plugged my USB stick in, stood up and looked at the people in the classroom I just wanted to say that no way, I'm not doing it. I slurred pretty much every other word and I repeated myself a lot, after the pitch I just wanted to turn invisible and go home. I think that if I would've pitched the same stuff in Finnish to Finnish people I would've been fine but I honestly had to think about what to say and that ended up in me having stupid pauses and slurred words.

Never again. :(