So Friday was our second presentation and it went...TERRIBLE:( OMG is was so bad. So we arrive back at HL a quarter to five with an incomplete presentation because we couldn't log onto the server at the library and someone, Rich, wouldn't help us. So we figure since the keynote is basically done, we'll just put the videos on when we get back. Everything seems to be going well until Matthew shows up and we realize that one of the videos we're supposed to use is gone like vanished. So now I'm annoyed because the video disappearing is a bit inconvenient but I'm like whatever; we still have two more.
The second video looks all good until I try to open it for a test run and you guessed it, it won't play. It wouldn't even open because it was made on a bootleg version of final cut and now for the computer to open it, it has to have a serial number and all this other crap. I am on the verge of tears at this point because it looks like our presentation in going down the drain. I'm trying like hell to get this crap to work and it's not looking good and so I freak out on Matthew and this big scene erupts and I'm really embarrassed cause everyone is watching and I'm mad as hell that everything is going wrong and pissed cause I know it's my fault for not checking before. It is in situations like those that true leaders are tested and I failed cause I embarrassed my team and lost control. We still trying to get the video going and our adult volunteer Lon is helping but then time runs out and we just have to deal.
So we're up first and our team is looking like," damn this is gonna be ugly" and I'm trying to relax and the judges are looking a little mean. So we start and the first and only video we have begins to play and we don't hear anything. I' m just standing there like WTF!!!like who did I piss of for all this shit to happen. So now it's up to me to walk the audience through the video and I feel like I'm talking too much and then the slides for the other videos come up and I feel like shit having to apologize for not having the videos. I am so mortified at this point i just want to step down but that's not an option so I keep going and my teammates talk and they're all nervous but I'm proud cause they're like doing a good job.
Finally it's over and I just want to die. I watch the other teams and try to hold on to the hope that we may still have a chance to win. We get a break and the judges deliberate. We end up losing but we win first place in points and I'm just glad it's all over. Some of us stay behind to clean up and we all loosen up and dance and it's fun. All I know is that never again will I wait until Friday to do our presentation that's for damn sure.
The second video looks all good until I try to open it for a test run and you guessed it, it won't play. It wouldn't even open because it was made on a bootleg version of final cut and now for the computer to open it, it has to have a serial number and all this other crap. I am on the verge of tears at this point because it looks like our presentation in going down the drain. I'm trying like hell to get this crap to work and it's not looking good and so I freak out on Matthew and this big scene erupts and I'm really embarrassed cause everyone is watching and I'm mad as hell that everything is going wrong and pissed cause I know it's my fault for not checking before. It is in situations like those that true leaders are tested and I failed cause I embarrassed my team and lost control. We still trying to get the video going and our adult volunteer Lon is helping but then time runs out and we just have to deal.
So we're up first and our team is looking like," damn this is gonna be ugly" and I'm trying to relax and the judges are looking a little mean. So we start and the first and only video we have begins to play and we don't hear anything. I' m just standing there like WTF!!!like who did I piss of for all this shit to happen. So now it's up to me to walk the audience through the video and I feel like I'm talking too much and then the slides for the other videos come up and I feel like shit having to apologize for not having the videos. I am so mortified at this point i just want to step down but that's not an option so I keep going and my teammates talk and they're all nervous but I'm proud cause they're like doing a good job.
Finally it's over and I just want to die. I watch the other teams and try to hold on to the hope that we may still have a chance to win. We get a break and the judges deliberate. We end up losing but we win first place in points and I'm just glad it's all over. Some of us stay behind to clean up and we all loosen up and dance and it's fun. All I know is that never again will I wait until Friday to do our presentation that's for damn sure.
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