The results of the training
The week that has just passed has been a great one for me. Training all week, everybody just loves it. Who won’t? As the training started, everyone in the room has this feeling of discomfortness. I am not saying that we were nervous, but having a little amount of butterflies in our stomachs, perhaps. Why? I for one, a I entered the room, has my minds set that I was there because I don’t have enough sel confidence, not fluent in speaking english, not very good on grammar and I don’t belong to those that are elite in english. I felt nervous even more when our professor showed the grading system to the class. Passing grade, 85%, while during college I only got 2.5 in english , which is too much far behind from 1.0.
Then came the first examination. The first part was a written exam but it didn’t shake my nerves a bit since I know that I am not that bad on written english. Although, I still got confused while answering. But I never mind it at all. What I am trying to anticipate is the next part, which will be word pronunciation and the mock interview. I know that my tongue is a little bit twisted, that’s why. And I don’t have enough confidence. The only reason why I can’t pass those previous interviews I had in other companies (before Accenture) :).
Here comes that part that frightens me.
Top, Endeavor, Brooke, Culture, Toll, Chicago, Jargon, Food. Some of the words that I did not ‘fronuounce’ very well. I should have consulted Mr. Webster first. There were 15 words all in all that I ‘frounounced imferctly’.
In the mock interview, I got a ‘3/3′ for self confidence, which I did not expect. I also did quite well on other criteria except on sentence construction. Perhaps, I lack skills in CSC (Core, Supporting Details, Conclusion). The result was not bad at all. And oh!, did I say that I also did not show assertiveness during the interview?
The Judgement Day
The first and the last day, for me, were the days that gave faster beats in my heart. If on the first day I did well, I should do even better on the last. I should call this, ‘The Judgment Day’. This is the time that I can measure whether the training was of any help for me or none at all. This is the time that I can tell if I improve my english skills as compared to before I take the training.
On the last day, everyone in the class was so quiet (not all the time), reviewing each word, looking for their meanings, checking the correct pronunciations (the syllabication and the transcript, is it a schwa or an italian a), and training each jaw and tongue to ferfectly blend with each words. ‘Fronouncing each fi froferly and ferfectly to ve vetter and vetter‘. It can’t be stopped anymore. One by one, we face the judgement day, with a little fear I say, but a lot of determination and confidence that we can do it. And we did it. All of us pass the 85% mark. I actually got 90.43% which is way beyond the mark. CONGRATULATIONS to us!
Anyway, in spite of fearing and trembling moments on the judgement day, we still manage to take some pictures. Class pictures, individual and stolen shots, etc. But I have to wait for Rosa and Tin Tin, two of my classmates, to send them so I can pubhlish them here.
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