Presentation #1: Check!

Welp…I just completed my little mini earthship presentation! Yaaaaay!

So since we planned to do this last week..it was a bit last minute and not on a big scale (which is definitely fine with me), but we made it happen, and I'm just so happy about that.

We ended up having this at the church I go to (St. Paul's United Methodist Church) in a small conference room. Jacqueline (who's husband I interviewed a week ago), created a Facebook event, and we ended up calling it Ecovillage and Earththips: The Future of Sustainable Living.
About 15 people showed up, which was the perfect amount of people. All of them I knew in some way or another, so I didn't feel as bad about how un-perfectly my half of the presentation went. First, I told everyone why I wanted to give this little talk and gave them some context. Then, I briefly described what earthships were, then continued to go through the systems and how they worked. Then talked about where a few of them have been built for relief purposes. Very simple. The Arlene talked about Ecovillage, how it's run, and what it's main goals are. No added pictures or anything, very casual and supportive environment.

However, let me paint a picture of what/how I was doing the day before/the day of.

June 6th: 
Noon-4 pm. This day finally came, it was PROM day! My mom and I were running around getting nails done, getting last minute accessories, a corsage and boutineer, all that good stuff. Then it came time for me to go get ready at a friend's house.
4 pm-11pm: Getting ready (which surprisingly didn't take too long), then going to take pictures at the plantations, then going back to the house I was at and taking more pictures (readers out there who already went to prom, any flashbacks yet?). Then the actual prom at the Farmer's Market, which was just lovely. It felt very at home/Ithaca-esque, and the Blind Spots played (they're an AWESOME local band, check them out!!) and it was a fabulous evening.
June 6th-7th
11 pm-4 am: We had a sleepover back at my friend's house and stayed up verrryy late.
June 7th: 
4 am-7 am: sleep in a tent outside
7 am-11:30 am: went home and did as much work as I could for this presentation. I had very little time the week before to prep for it, as I had other priorities that came first. So that was rough.

Basically what I'm trying to say in as interesting of a format as possible is that I was very tired and unprepared for this mini presentation. While I was talking (thank goodness I got to sit and only use my computer to show a few pictures), I had a hard time coming up with the right words to say and was very sluggish in my thinking. I was stutter-y and not boisterous enough, I thought.

I can be sure, though, when I give my actual WISE presentation, that I get a good night's sleep the night before, I prepare all week, and I fully rehearse what I'm going to say. I'm glad I got the jitters out of the way and now feel more ready for the big presentation next week.

We're gettin' there!