The Welcome to Thailand Ceremony Thailand Ceremony is an important event since it is the first presentation everyone will see and it'll probably determine the mood of everyone before the hard work everyone gets in therefore I think it was a very important job to be an MC for. The "We Express Together Evening" was considered one of the peaks of the conference and to be an MC was an absolute joy. I managed to be a part of some of biggest evening of the whole conference.
I believe I challenged myself by going for the fairly difficult task because being MC in a not so formal scene made more difficult because I had to convey a sense of comfort and liveliness people would want to see and wake up for, as well as get excited, as oppose to a more formal scene were it would be perfectly scripted. In a less formal event I think as an MC you need to show your personality because the audience react well to that (at least seemingly to me), and this kind of put me in more uncomfortable position because it shows some vulnerability. The aim was of taking up this mammoth of a task was to gain experience speaking to a large audience of people I've not met before. In the long run, I think it good for me to continue gaining experience because one day I hope to be successful enough to be able to be a motivational speaker, and inspire people, young or old to go out and challenge themselves.
The problems I ran into was that at time the nerves got to me and I made a few mistakes, having a co-host MC who was confident on stage (which I might add has acting training and sings in band) really made me look like an amateur at it. However, I did not let my flaws get me down, prepared my courage and did the best I can. I really like the support people gave me afterwards even though I mad few mistakes.
The outcomes are that I have experienced the feeling of public speaking in front of large amount of people and even though there were few mistakes on my part, I believe that overcoming the fear is much harder than getting what you're going to say right because you can always improve your communication skills but unless you get over the fear you would always have a limitation.
For the record, I did assist with the organizing of We Express Together Evening because it was crucial that I knew the order which people performed and the little time we had to prepare it was absolutely necessary to collaborate with other organizing members. And I had to give up one of my service days to create an ' 'assistance script', just in case that me or the other MC (who did go to their service project). I believe, I deserved a bit more credit than awarded, however, I think of myself as not a selfish person and as long as I know I did an excellent job, no credit is necessary.
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