Public Speaking!

I have a Public Speaking class 4th period. My teacher is Mr. Paul, but he has been out because some days ago his wife had a baby. The baby caught some kind of cancer and Mr. Paul is with his wife and baby. For now we have Mrs. Elliot, she has been a good substitute teacher in the days she has been with us. To tell the truth I think am not going to like or do well in that class. We have done two speeches already in this class. One was about interviewing a student in our class and asking them questions about an important event in their life. Then we had to gather the information they gave us and make up a story to talk about it to the whole class. The second one was about choosing five personal objects and talking about it in front of the whole class. We also had to write down five to six things we shouldn't do while doing a speech. The things I wrote were: Not to chew gum, no mumbling, no slouching or leaning against something, don't stutter, don't always look at the floor; look at the audience. When we did the first speech we had to do two or three things that we are not suppose to do during a speech. Then the class had to guess what we was doing wrong. Now we are working on looking up a famous speaker and telling the class about him/her. Hope I do really good on this. I am a very shy person when it comes to speaking in front of a whole crew of people. I get really nervous because I might mess up, mumble, speak low, stutter, or do something that is not right or embarrassing in front of everyone. I hope this class and Mr. Paul helps me take away my shyness. I really want to try and do great in this class and be successful. This class is important because it teaches you how to do public speaking, you know speeches and stuff like that; presentations you know! Communication skills are important for careers and school and every thing. This is why am going to try and do my best in this class whether I like it or not!