Time Flies When You’re Having Fun

It is hard to believe that we are already at the end of week three of our internship! We have been so busy this week that the time has just flown by. On Thursday we had a speaking engagement for the Minority Business Council here in Greenville. We were asked to present on Democracy NC’s money in politics work and the Citizen’s United vs. FEC case, but that made Jasmine and I feel a little nervous. We have done a few public speaking engagements before, so we weren’t nervous about getting in front of the crowd and talking. What worried us was the topic that we were supposed to present about. All of our speaking engagements so far had been about the Voter ID bill; talking about the money in politics part of our work was new to us. We spent a lot of time just trying to read up on the Citizen’s United case and money in politics so that we would be prepared. I think we were both afraid of getting some fact about the issue wrong, or not being to speak intelligently about money in politics. Luckily for us we had the talking points and notes from the training session to go by, and after reading those we were ready to go. When it was time for us to actually present I think we had long forgotten our feelings of nervousness, and we just got up and spoke. In fact, we ended up going over our allotted fifteen minutes! After the presentation a few of the members of the Minority Business Council came up to us and commented on how well we had done and how passionate we seemed. I guess there was never any need to be nervous!