I’ve never before heard of a presentation called “Pecha
Kucha” until this semester, and I have to say, I enjoyed it a lot! I am usually
extremely nervous when it comes to giving a presentation, especially when there
is a native speaker in the audience. Because of this nervousness, I tend to
speak really fast so that I swallow most of the words, or Iose track of what I prepared
to say like when I had to give a presentation during the hot and stressful
culture days last semester. However, this wasn’t the case this time (thank
God!) and I felt really confident while delivering this special type of presentation.
Maybe it had to do with the fact that I had more time to prepare it properly,
or that I simply got to do it with my good friend Emina, which made this experience
lots of fun for both of us. I was even more surprised to find out that our
classmates thought the same thing! Apart from having noticed that we stupidly
confused an Irish map with a Scottish one (again, really sorry about that!),
most of them thought we were very fluent, self-confident and that our PowerPoint
was very good and interesting as well. What can I say other than this feedback
was really the icing on the cake.
From “Making of” to “the Product”
Well, after
Emina and I decided to make the Irish language our topic, we met up twice
(which wasn’t that much of extra work since we practically see each other every
day), made an outline to see where this presentation was going, collected all
the information we could find and started writing the transcript together. While
doing that, we tried to make it as interesting and creative as possible, since
this was the purpose of the whole Pecha Kucha thing, so we asked Fiona to
record something in Irish for us, which she kindly agreed to do. After that, we
agreed on dividing up the transcript in 40 sec. sessions so that it doesn’t get
too boring. The PowerPoint was also done in no time, and we were left with nothing
but practicing so that we don’t go over the 20 seconds per slide. This “rehearsing
evening” was definitely the fun part!
After
delivering the presentation, I got to just lie back and enjoy some of the other
interesting Pecha Kucha’s. All in all, I was very much satisfied with our
successful presentation and wouldn’t have changed anything if I could (well,
expect for the Scottic map, of course ;)).
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