Public speaking

Last week was a huge festival in my town of Uthai Thani, Thailand.Thousands of people from all over the country came to commemorate the day Buddha came down to Earth. We watched 500 orange robed monks walk down the one hill we have representing the decent from heaven. My town asked me to give a speech in English about the meaning of the day to these thousands of people. Normally I would freak out. I mean I'm the kinda girl who rehearses voicemail messages before I leave them (sometimes! Only sometimes... really). But I was cool as the underside of a pillow (oh I crack me up!). ((Do you think I use parenthesis too much?)). Anyway, I was smooth, charismatic, charming, beautiful... and if I wasn't, well, only about 5 of those people had any idea what I was saying anyway.