Tonight I presented my piece of the presentation and I think it went really well. Usually I can tell when I do a lousy job presenting something and it didn’t suck tonight. However, at 5:10pm while the class was working on a small group activity, my partner leaned over and started asking me something about his part of the presentation. I flat out told him that he can’t, at 5:10 in the middle of our presentation, ask me if he should do X, Y or Z. I then smiled and went back to observing the groups. Seriously. Not even making it up. Gah.
The better-half used leftovers to construct a lovely meal tonight. It rocked and now I’m full and happy. I’m in a much better place than I was at the beginning of the day.
Maybe he just gets nervous speaking in front of a group? Did he pull it off? Either way it sounds like a relief to get it over with.
He did OK. I think he comes off as quite passive and in that respect he needed to step up a bit more based on our topic. He was the one the professor thought would do a wonderful job at our “deep and meaningful” segment. I’m not sure he came across that way but he also didn’t completely fail. It’s strange that he doesn’t have more of a presence–he used to teach school in his home country…you’d think be used to speaking in front of a group (and our group was 8 in number last night so not a big, scary group).