The Minister and myself

Yesterday, the minister for small businesses in British Columbia visited our class to give a speech about – oh surprise – small business in BC. Just before the speech Steve, our accounting professor and head of the MBA faculty, came to me. He asked me to thank the minister and to hand him a present after his speech.
110 Students, the whole MBA faculty, a minister and in English – shit, IN ENGLISH - that was serious cold call. I have to admit: I was quite a bit nervous. But you grow with your challenges.
Finally, I managed somehow to say some words and I guess it worked quite well. in addition, I know now about the advantages of speaking notes. The notes saved my life because as soon as I had started to talk I remembered nothing of my preparation.

Would I do it again? Immediately! It was a great experience and I am even better prepared for the next one now. Actually, it has been one of my best experiences of the MBA so far.
Now, we have 0.08 am. I got up at 7.00 am and have studied since then without a real break. Bad news: still some preparation to do for tomorrow. Good that they did the class picture last week – nothing to laugh anymore.

Anything more? I got a lovely picture postcard from Denmark today. That was a nice surprise!