continued from VT Program !! (Part I) ….
The Artic Wave became part of our lives for next few weeks. Although the furniture setting in the room was similar to that of a class room but it was totally different from the typical classes which we have had at our colleges or schools. The room had inspirational and motivating posters on all the sides. The tables were semi-circle in shape and chairs too were very comfortable.
As we all entered the room, like our habit of being a back bencher; Abhi, Kunal & me went to the second row, leaving the first row empty for others to occupy. Before we would have sat comfortably, Arti told us to join two of the tales to make it a round one. We sat around the table, in the same manner as we were participating in one of those round tables conferences’.
After going through our intros, Arti made it clear to us that she will be our mentor and we are here for four weeks of Voice Training Program. She gave us the plan of action for our training and explained us that how we’ll go about it. She told us that we’ll be soon getting our course materials. Our course material included three books, two audio cassettes and a CD, which we got after few days.
From next day onwards, our day began at 9:30am after reaching the office. We all use to wait for each other at the same cafeteria where we all first met. After having a cup of coffee and a light breakfast, if anyone needed; we used to move to the classroom.
The first day; and the first thing which Arti asked us to do were to discuss traffic problems in Delhi. It was a sort of discussion, but it was an extempore rather than a discussion, we were asked to speak few lines on that topic. After few days, we felt so comfortable in public speaking that we may speak on any given topic, at any moment continuously for minutes.
Extempore was an essential part of our training and so it became a part of our lives too. But some of us had few topics in which they were very comfortable. Lets start from Anurag, whenever he was asked to speak something; he always preferred to tell us the experiences from his affair. In that short span of time, we knew so much about his friend. Even Joy also spoke about his girlfriend, many a times.
Now Kunal’s turn. He always loved to talk about computers. Even though only 40% of us were engineers but he always continued speaking about computer and networking. Ashish, a story writer by hobby and an engineer by profession narrated us his stories few times.
There were few other people like me, who didn’t have any favorite subject to speak on but had some different qualities associated to them. Starting from the ladies, Megha & Laveena both always reacted as they were very nervous in speaking; but once they started; they were so confident like some professional orators. One special quality about Laveena, she never hesitated in taking the initiative. At times, no one was willing to start the discussion and at that time she always took the initiative. Megha had very good intonation in her voice, she sounded so natural and her speeches were always full of expression.
Vargis, one of the best debaters I’ve ever seen. He had a vast knowledge of almost on every subject. While in discussions, he had the ability to prove everyone wrong through his debating and convincing power. Abhishek was the best listener in our batch. He was perfect in catching the mistakes of others. We used to tell him, you will soon get an offer letter from the training institute to become an instructor there.
Vijayendra was known as Arsenal of Words. He was one person, who always used heavy words in his talks (actually those were heavy for us but not for him). The usage of words was perfect. And was always known some or other things which he did, whether his discussions or date, etc. Last but not the least, comes my turn. Even though I spoke very less and also whatever came to my mind but people always believed that I think well before speaking out anything. I know it seems that I’m doing self appraisal here but I didn’t want to miss this: Vijayendra always use to tell me that I’m a thinker.
to be continued…………
The Artic Wave became part of our lives for next few weeks. Although the furniture setting in the room was similar to that of a class room but it was totally different from the typical classes which we have had at our colleges or schools. The room had inspirational and motivating posters on all the sides. The tables were semi-circle in shape and chairs too were very comfortable.
As we all entered the room, like our habit of being a back bencher; Abhi, Kunal & me went to the second row, leaving the first row empty for others to occupy. Before we would have sat comfortably, Arti told us to join two of the tales to make it a round one. We sat around the table, in the same manner as we were participating in one of those round tables conferences’.
After going through our intros, Arti made it clear to us that she will be our mentor and we are here for four weeks of Voice Training Program. She gave us the plan of action for our training and explained us that how we’ll go about it. She told us that we’ll be soon getting our course materials. Our course material included three books, two audio cassettes and a CD, which we got after few days.
From next day onwards, our day began at 9:30am after reaching the office. We all use to wait for each other at the same cafeteria where we all first met. After having a cup of coffee and a light breakfast, if anyone needed; we used to move to the classroom.
The first day; and the first thing which Arti asked us to do were to discuss traffic problems in Delhi. It was a sort of discussion, but it was an extempore rather than a discussion, we were asked to speak few lines on that topic. After few days, we felt so comfortable in public speaking that we may speak on any given topic, at any moment continuously for minutes.
Extempore was an essential part of our training and so it became a part of our lives too. But some of us had few topics in which they were very comfortable. Lets start from Anurag, whenever he was asked to speak something; he always preferred to tell us the experiences from his affair. In that short span of time, we knew so much about his friend. Even Joy also spoke about his girlfriend, many a times.
Now Kunal’s turn. He always loved to talk about computers. Even though only 40% of us were engineers but he always continued speaking about computer and networking. Ashish, a story writer by hobby and an engineer by profession narrated us his stories few times.
There were few other people like me, who didn’t have any favorite subject to speak on but had some different qualities associated to them. Starting from the ladies, Megha & Laveena both always reacted as they were very nervous in speaking; but once they started; they were so confident like some professional orators. One special quality about Laveena, she never hesitated in taking the initiative. At times, no one was willing to start the discussion and at that time she always took the initiative. Megha had very good intonation in her voice, she sounded so natural and her speeches were always full of expression.
Vargis, one of the best debaters I’ve ever seen. He had a vast knowledge of almost on every subject. While in discussions, he had the ability to prove everyone wrong through his debating and convincing power. Abhishek was the best listener in our batch. He was perfect in catching the mistakes of others. We used to tell him, you will soon get an offer letter from the training institute to become an instructor there.
Vijayendra was known as Arsenal of Words. He was one person, who always used heavy words in his talks (actually those were heavy for us but not for him). The usage of words was perfect. And was always known some or other things which he did, whether his discussions or date, etc. Last but not the least, comes my turn. Even though I spoke very less and also whatever came to my mind but people always believed that I think well before speaking out anything. I know it seems that I’m doing self appraisal here but I didn’t want to miss this: Vijayendra always use to tell me that I’m a thinker.
to be continued…………
