Wednesday, November 21, 2007
So Day 1 of RED camp is done. My fellow SL's are pretty kickass funny, awesome and fun-loving. Great to soak in the atmosphere, really. The student participants are pretty receptive and they're a pretty awesome bunch too.
All in all, a pretty good day.
Oh and the Saint Andrew's outreach talk was good. Good in the sense that the audience was participative (read noisy but in a good way) and of course audience participation livens up any presentation by leaps and bounds.
Which also brings me to the point that planning for outreach talks never really do stick to plan. My first one, with Desmond, didn't go according to the script we made in preparation for our first outreach talk. As in we left out quite a bit. So this time having gained much insights into this trade, I planned with ariana just the points we were gonna talk about, not the actual content.
Which worked out of course. But what didn't work out was our intention to use 'characters' to convey the message, i.e. I was to play a more reserved and calm speaker (read more nerd), and ariana the opposite.
Due to the audience's activeness, those planned ideas were soon discarded (in fact she began to sound more 'nerd' than me. Then again, I guess it comes naturally from her :D) but I guess it worked out in the end. So more experience for me and a confirmation of a long-standing belief: God laughs at your plans for the future.
With much tiredness and dread for the week after this due to the glut of projects reasonating from me,
Brian Thomas Lim
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