The day before our final presentations, I was very nervous.

I was practicing all week

trying to memorize my slides, make eye contact and not look at my notecards. Even I was

practicing, I was still very nervous and worried. For my in-class presentation, I was just as

nervous because I always shy to talk in front of people since I was young. I was just doing

practice in front of my classmates that I’ve been with for years now. It wasn’t that though. It was

the fact that I was almost there. I was almost finished with high school and was ready to

graduate. This presentation was the last step to Freedom.

On the time my presentation day, I wore professional cloth closed-toe shoes, and pantsuit.

I went walking to the media center to present, my hands were shaking and my heartbeat was so

high. When I was called, I took some deep breaths and went forward. Once I greeted the judges,

I knew there was no going back. I greeted the judges first and then I pulled up my presentation.

First, while I was presenting, I was so scared and cannot even say the words but the judges I had

were very engaged and their face was nice then I didn’t even nervous and didn’t look at my

notecards because of their face.

After my presentation, the judges asked a few questions I could answer about the book I

wrote when it happened and why did I pick this topic? The judges’ feedback was excellent.

They were very impressed that I had polite, my tone, my confidence, everything. Once I went

back to my classroom, I felt this relief, like this weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I just

very happy and proud of myself that I got through with it and did better than expected Senior

year has definitely changed me as a person. I realized that senior year is the most important year

of high school.