October 20th- Body Language

In today's class Jimmy had each of us think of two truths about ourselves and one lie.  He then had each of us stand in front of the class and tell the two truths and a lie, but the class had to figure out which of the three "facts" about the person was false.  We had to determine this by not only using instinct, but by also paying attention to people's body language while presenting.

This exercise taught me that I'm a horrible liar and that I need to work on my lying skills, as awful as that sounds.  My three "facts" about myself were: 1. I'm from Chicago, 2. I have a twin sister, and 3. My favorite color is red.  Jimmy told me that he knew right away that I lied about being from Chicago because I said it faster than the other two things like I had to get the lie out quick.  He did also say that the fact about me being a twin made him second guess himself though.  This exercise also made me realize that I tend to move my legs a lot while presenting in front of people.  I think this stems from me being a trained dancer since I was little and therefore my comfort zone when performing in front of people is some sort of movement.  Because of this I need to walk around the room while presenting instead of trying to stand in one spot and looking antsy.

Later in the class we presented an image with 10 different tag lines once again.  I didn't improve much with this second chance at the assignment and was honestly embarrassed to read what I came up with in front of the class, especially since everyone else seemed to improve so much.  This is definitely something I need to improve upon.