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    The narrator experienced severe stage fright after a humiliating incident during a kindergarten performance where he was dressed as a cabbage and fell off the stage in front of a laughing audience. Eighteen years later, he can still hear the echoes of laughter and gets overwhelmed with anxiety at the thought of public speaking. He has seen a speech therapist for years but with little improvement to his stage fright. The narrator hopes that no one else has to experience something so deeply scarring from such an early age.

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    The narrator experienced severe stage fright after a humiliating incident during a kindergarten performance where he was dressed as a cabbage and fell off the stage in front of a laughing audience. Eighteen years later, he can still hear the echoes of laughter and gets overwhelmed with anxiety at the thought of public speaking. He has seen a speech therapist for years but with little improvement to his stage fright. The narrator hopes that no one else has to experience something so deeply scarring from such an early age.

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    The narrator experienced severe stage fright after a humiliating incident during a kindergarten performance where he was dressed as a cabbage and fell off the stage in front of a laughing audience. Eighteen years later, he can still hear the echoes of laughter and gets overwhelmed with anxiety at the thought of public speaking. He has seen a speech therapist for years but with little improvement to his stage fright. The narrator hopes that no one else has to experience something so deeply scarring from such an early age.

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    XAVIER ENGLISH BOOK SERIES III

    I Can Still Hear the Laughter

    During parties, most especially come out, I confidently glided unto


    those with lots of gorgeous women, the stage, tiptoeing as I had
    many of my friends jump at the practiced many times before, and
    opportunity to be the center of then sang my first few lines, “I am
    attention. Whether it be performing cabbage, green leafy cabbage!”
    magic tricks or singing on the Magic
    Sing, my buddies are always leaping Suddenly, just after singing the
    into the spotlight and trying to show last syllable of the line, I felt my left
    others what they’ve got. Not me, calf cramp. It could have been
    though. I’ve always been the shy caused by the weight of the costume
    and reserved one. I’m not sure or it could have been from the
    myself, but it’s probably because I tiptoeing, but whatever the reason, I
    was terribly embarrassed in a felt my leg give way. The next thing I
    children’s program that I am awfully knew, I was rolling all over the stage
    shy today. like a cabbage gone mad. Not
    wanting to ruin the entire show, I
    My humbling experience took continued to croon my lines. “In
    place during the Parents’ Day soups, salads and stews, I assure a
    program when I was in kindergarten. healthy you!” Then suddenly, I felt a
    Our teachers had been rehearsing us thud, and abruptly, the rolling
    on our various numbers weeks stopped. It was then that I realized I
    before the day of the important had fallen off the stage and that my
    event. The performance of our costume had broken in half. I was in
    section was a song-and-dance nothing but my underwear. The
    number on various fruits and laughing from the crowd was, to me,
    vegetables, and I considered myself absolutely deafening, unforgiving,
    fortunate since I had and frightening.
    been chosen as among
    the lead characters in Today, eighteen
    the presentation – the years after that
    cabbage. My mom had experience, I am still
    worked painstakingly to haunted by it.
    make my costume for Whenever I find myself
    me, and the night in a situation that
    before the pageant, requires me to be in
    when I tried out the front of spectators, it’s
    costume at home, I almost as if I can hear
    couldn’t stop smiling; I echoes from the
    really did look like a cabbage. My laughter of the audience in the
    mother had cut out pieces of beige kindergarten program. For this
    cloth, painted them various shades reason, I dread being in front of a
    of green, and then layered them crowd; in fact, I dread even the
    intricately. Although the outfit was chance of being in front of a crowd.
    quite heavy, I was determined, more It’s gotten so bad that even when
    than ever, to give my best the moment calls for a simple prayer
    performance in it. in front of a few people, I can’t get
    through the task without
    On the day of the program, out hyperventilating or much worse,
    came the radish, the beet, and the getting teary-eyed.
    rest of the other vegetables. Despite
    their colorful costumes, I was Will I ever get over my
    brimming with confidence since I overblown stage fright? I’m not very
    knew that my outfit was the best. sure; I’ve been seeing a speech
    Soon enough, I heard my cue. The therapist since I was ten to fix the
    voice on the tape sang, “and of problem, sadly without much
    course, the delicious green leafy, the improvement. However, it never fails
    cabbage!” Upon hearing my signal to to overwhelm me when I think about

    MY VIEW OF THE WORLD AROUND ME 1


    XAVIER ENGLISH BOOK SERIES III

    how a simple event like a foul-up


    from a kindergarten show can affect
    someone so deeply for the rest of
    one’s life. I just hope it doesn’t have
    to happen to anyone else.

    MY VIEW OF THE WORLD AROUND ME 2

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