New way of doing the classes.

In today's class, the teacher told us that the way of doing all the classes is going to change, now we are going to do all the projects that we have in this term during the class, and present them one day before of the day of the real presentation so you can know that you will do better in the real one. In my opinion, I think it is a good idea doing this, it actually has its point, as you do it before you finish the work before too, but there is also some problems of doing this, I think that it will be very stressing that we have one day less for doing all these activities.

We continued with the SWOT analysis.

In today's class I had to do an activity where I had to do a report about the things that my partner told, but the SWOT analysis of the partner that should handle to me, wasn’t in my       e-mail, so I had to do the work again with Joaquín, who has been showing me all the work that he has been doing and it was actually really good, I was very impressed of the work done by him, it was actually better presented than mine, the content of his works it was good, but I had time just to read some of them.

My personal opinion of this activity was that it is very important to know how to criticize other's works and how to take the criticism as an opportunity to change it, it was very useful this activity.

I'm very proud of my improvement

All the effort that I have done this year it was worth, why? I have really improved in doing oral presentations. Today, I had to do a presentation of the correspondence and memoranda, we decided between Eric and me yesterday who was going to explain the whole presentation by lot. I lost so I had to do the presentation. At the beginning I thought it was a bad thing that it was me who had to present it, but today, after explaining everything, I think it was better for me presenting because the pride I felt when I did the exposition almost perfect, I didn’t have any words, even the teacher, who criticized the rest of the participants a lot, didn't say anything bad about me, I think this course has been worth.

Meeting with the teacher.

Sorry for not writing posts since Wednesday, I actually couldn't because I was very busy with all the exams and other works. In Thursday, the class was actually the most important class of all the course for me, it was the class in which I had a personal meeting with the teacher. As always, I started being very nervous and she really did notice, she was very helpful in that case and made me feel comfortable in a few seconds. At the end of the meeting I think that I was very assertive during all the conversation and the most important thing is that it was me the one who was talking during most of the meeting, not my nervous part.

The start of the end.

In today's class we have started with the conversations with the teacher about what do we deserve of marks, I pretty think that it is very normal to be nervous in this case, because it is the time where the teacher decides your mark and I think everyone who cares about his marks is going to be nervous in this moment. I thought I was going to do this talk with her today because the order of the surnames but it didn't.

Instead of doing nothing in class, we did the evaluation of the teacher, which in my opinion got a good one, even though in this subject there is a lot of work to do, if I think it properly, I have learnt a lot. So I don’t think this subject was useless, maybe I could have learnt how to do a presentation in one or two years by practicing, but thank to this subject I was able to do it faster. I think this was one of the better things of this subject, the fact that I got better at doing presentations.

We did a test in class!

In today's class, we have been doing a test which was about creativity and some other stuff which it was actually pretty good, the creativity one was the best for me, because it was actually funny the way some creative questions were asked and funnier the way the answer was said.

For example, there was a question in which I laughed a lot. The question was: Andrew is a guy who was going to a party with some friends and when we was going out he forgot his driving license. When he was driving there, he skip a traffic light and also went in opposite direction. A policeman saw everything but he didn’t do anything. Why did this happen?

The answer was that he was walking, not by car. When I saw this, I just hadn't words to say how that question was, I just started laughing.

We are going to do a test in next class.

In last class, we were going to do a test, but I don't exactly know what was it about, because we didn't do it at last, because we needed internet explorer to do it, and there were people who didn't have this, so finally we decided to do this test on the next class, in a computer room of the university. This test reminded me to another test I did a week ago about emotional intelligence,  it was an extra work that I had to do from a class, I could do it if I wanted, so I did it. It told me that I'm not very good leader, but some good parts were that I am a person easy to trust in. This test wasn't a typically test of 10 questions were they tell you just useless things, it was actually a very good test. I would recommend it to you but it was only available until last tuesday.

More problems!!

In today's class we have continued with the assertive classes, today we have practiced where should we act assertively, where not, or even when is it very difficult to act like that. We had to choose a usual situation that happened to you, describe how you acted and how you should have acted. I chose that situation when you are at the cinema and someone behind you starts to disturb you kicking your seat, I put that I usually act passively, I just wait until he stops and I realized that it wasn't right to act like that, but I'm used to stay silenced and I know that it is not right to do it. It would be another nice thing to change in a future, but right now I don’t think that I'm able to do it.

More problems and stress

In today's class we have been correcting all the mistakes we have been doing in this term. When I saw all the messages by the teacher in order to change a lot of things  I was so stressed, I have to do works like for 10 hours and I am on exams, this is getting really hard. Today I was just thinking in all the work I have to do, I'm going to be working a lot these two following weeks.

Another part that made me think about something was when the teacher told us of because of arriving late from another class. I think that if that would happen every day,  I would understand it but, actually, it was first time we arrived late and there is no need to get angry for that. I can understand anyway that she wasn't happy with us. It is always a bad thing to arrive late anywhere.

Run out of ideas!!!

Today's class we have only done one activity and nothing more, so I run out of ideas for this post. This activity was the last we did in the last report. I think that if we had done more things than one, we could write more than one post, but we have only done one activity, in which I already talked about in last post. I think that we could do more than one post if the classes would last 3 hours, but in this year, they only last 2, so there's no time enough to do more than one activity and if nothing interesting happens apart from what I commented in the last post, it is difficult to come up with something. 

Looking for videos.

We have been doing an activity in class in which we had to look for some videos on YouTube where it appears some assertive techniques. Actually today's class, thanks to this activity was very light and calm and I was doing one of my hobbies too, searching for videos on the internet. One of the techniques was the "broken record" in which someone repeatedly says no to something. This technique immediately reminded me to the film "Yes man", a Jim Carrey's film which it is very funny, I tried to look some scenes of the film in order to use them for the work but I couldn't find any, I suppose I will continue searching.

I'm getting better

Today we started the class a bit late. The secretary of today was Francisco Javier and he did it actually quite well, there was no pressure on him and we could notice it. He did it very natural. The way he did it, it might be the way I would like to do it when presentation. Talking about my shyness problem, it is starting to get better, every presentation I do in class, I do it more natural and I can notice my change. Today I had to do another presentation and I did a very good job with it. I'm very proud of my changes, but I still have to get better.

Another problem incoming

We have done another activity today, it was about learning how to say no. It has been an activity that made me think a lot about a lot of things I have done bad with a lot of people. I am used to be a person that says yes to everyone, every favor they ask to me I help them and I know that it is a bad thing to do, when acting like this I'm not respecting myself and it is another thing that I should start to change. This is really going to be difficult to change because I have been like this all my life, but with some effort I will change it.