Outside Speaker
Daniel Pathammavong
Fundamentals of Public Speaking
Outside Speaker 12/14/14 This Saturday on the 13th I went to see a speaker talk in Minneapolis on Nicollet Ave. I had found out about the event from a website called Meetup.com. There was a travel author planning to speak at a meeting room in a coffee shop about how living internationally can change your perspective. I thought that was intriguing so I went! It was at 2p.m that Saturday and there wasn’t a time scheduled for it to end. When I had got to the shop I was about 10 minutes late, I had trouble finding parking and the coffee shop. After I got some tea I made my way to the meeting room past the restroom hallway, where a woman greeted me at the door with a form that she said we’ll all be filling out for fun. I said thanks and then found my seat. The room couldn’t fit I’d say no more than 60 people, with chairs on a rack and a whiteboard and projector screen in the front of the room. After grabbing my chair and taking a seat, I saw that the form ask us things like where did you grow up, where have you visited, and where have you lived? It didn’t take long to fill that thing out. As I see people one by one filling the room, people chatter as they fill out the sheets, it was fairly noisy. Once people had stopped coming in the lady at the door joined us in the room to enthusiastically introduce the speaker Catherine Watson. The lady at the door was Sarah, one of the founders of the Meetup.com group and a friend of Catherine’s she explained. Sarah stated some of Catherine’s accomplishments like being a pioneer for travel writing in American newspapers, being the first travel editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, how she teaches travel writing in colleges throughout the U.S, and how she’s been around the world three times! When Catherine got up front, there were lots of claps, hey some in the front even standing. She hugged Sarah and thanked her, then greeted us with a “Good afternoon my fellow
Fundamentals of Public Speaking
Outside Speaker 12/14/14 This Saturday on the 13th I went to see a speaker talk in Minneapolis on Nicollet Ave. I had found out about the event from a website called Meetup.com. There was a travel author planning to speak at a meeting room in a coffee shop about how living internationally can change your perspective. I thought that was intriguing so I went! It was at 2p.m that Saturday and there wasn’t a time scheduled for it to end. When I had got to the shop I was about 10 minutes late, I had trouble finding parking and the coffee shop. After I got some tea I made my way to the meeting room past the restroom hallway, where a woman greeted me at the door with a form that she said we’ll all be filling out for fun. I said thanks and then found my seat. The room couldn’t fit I’d say no more than 60 people, with chairs on a rack and a whiteboard and projector screen in the front of the room. After grabbing my chair and taking a seat, I saw that the form ask us things like where did you grow up, where have you visited, and where have you lived? It didn’t take long to fill that thing out. As I see people one by one filling the room, people chatter as they fill out the sheets, it was fairly noisy. Once people had stopped coming in the lady at the door joined us in the room to enthusiastically introduce the speaker Catherine Watson. The lady at the door was Sarah, one of the founders of the Meetup.com group and a friend of Catherine’s she explained. Sarah stated some of Catherine’s accomplishments like being a pioneer for travel writing in American newspapers, being the first travel editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, how she teaches travel writing in colleges throughout the U.S, and how she’s been around the world three times! When Catherine got up front, there were lots of claps, hey some in the front even standing. She hugged Sarah and thanked her, then greeted us with a “Good afternoon my fellow