April's Fabulouso WISE Presentation!

Wow. Just wow. I don't know how any of us are going to live up to April's WISE presentation she gave yesterday..
What I'm most impressed with, and what I am always astounded by whenever I hear her present or talk to a large group of people, is how radiant, genuine, and "easy" of a talker she is. Her words and ideas just kept flowing out with no pause. She obviously put a lot of time and effort into her presentation and summed up her overall experience of writing and filming Living with White Rice really well.

I got a few ideas from her presentation. Here they are!
-Encourage discussion among audience members, either with the presenter  or amongst themselves
-Include food! Potentially use it as an incentive
-Include a timeline of sorts, whether it be visual or verbal
-Include numbers in the presentation. April added up how many hours of filming and script writing she went through and that really impacted how I thought about her work throughout the four months.
-Talk about your emotions, but mostly the type of work that you did
-Use excerpt(s) from your journal

And, while I'm sad for April that this question I'm about to state was presented to her "on the spot" and she didn't have time to think about it...I will definitely think about this for my presentation: What changed in me as being a WISE student?

Such a broad, expansive question that can be hard to pin point. April answered beautifully, as she always does. I have quite the amount of pondering to do...

I would also like to add that April and I have been really good friends throughout the past six or seven years and it has been so enlightening to see how she's grown, how she takes charge of everything she commits to, how big she thinks, how truly she speaks, how creative she is, and of course how she remains a great friend throughout the good and bad times in her life. I can't wait to see her final product!!