Third Week at Training

It's our third week of training and I feel that based on our recording, there isn't a lot of improvement with the accent and the diction and all that jazz...well, not to my ear anyways. But maybe there is.

We've accomplished a lot in such a seemingly short time, from group presentations to sharing anecdotes to convincing other people to support an advocacy. And of course, the usual Thursday recordings. Oh, I did sound more "normal" compared to my usual breathless presentations. I say breathless because by the time I get to the middle part of my recording, I sound like I'm running out of breath....hehehe...it's difficult to pace yourself when your heart beats too fast because your nervous and have to think about American speech music, pronouncing words correctly and at the same time, stressing words. Sometimes my voices ends up sounding squeaky, or high pitched. Being high pitched is really how I am and I have to make a conscious effort not to do that.

But, all in all, I am glad with the way that I've progressed. It may not be remarkable to some people but the confidence that I've gained is, as the commercial goes, "priceless."

On to the fourth week and the end of the training, which I look forward to with excitmement and trepidation at the same time.

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September Birthdays

Three important people in my life celebrated their birthdays this month, there's mommy who celebrated her birthday today, ate Bum who celebrated hers yesterday and to Baste, on the 20th.

Happy birthday!!! Unsa inyong gi-tumba? Hehehehehe....

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Two Truths and a Lie

For our training today, we played a little game called "Two Truths and a Lie" (I know that I did something like this way back when I read a blog about it) but with a twist since we could ask questions to find out which are the truths and which is the lie.

But for the game, I came up with the following, find out which is the lie and the two truths:

1) I love waking up early in the morning.

2) I love drinking soda such as Coke a Cola, RC, etc.

3) When I was little, we would go to the beach often but I never learned how to swim.

Hmm, I'm sure its a dead give away.

There were some of us who were very poor at lying and some who looked so innocent? Hehehehe.

Anways, it was fun while it lasted. Can you guess which is the lie???

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Training

Last September 10, I started my training and the bright side is, its pretty accessible from where I live and its in a mall. I thought I'd be dying to go around the mall during the breaks but its not happening! The only kind of malling I do is when I walk around with another trainee, Donna in the fourth floor or sometimes the third floor. Most of the time, we just sit around at the lounge area just outside the "church," wait for the break to end and then head back to the Kinder room as soon as we see our trainers and fellow trainees head back in when the break ends.

I never truly realized how complicated the English language is, well, Midwestern American English as well. I'll never look at the letter T the same way again. Who knew they had so many sounds with so many rules to remember, that there are more z sounds than s sounds. Or the voiced and voiceless th. Sometimes I end up hesitating before speaking up. I try to think and look back whether I'm pronouncing them in the way that words should be pronounced.

Even if I don't pass this training, I would definitely still come out the winner. At least I'd feel confident about speaking the language and who knows, maybe next time, I'll be applying abroad??? Who knows where the wind will take me.

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