My First 5 Minutes Speech in Canada

My first five (5) minutes speech in Canada was about the Chinese language.  As my English was poor, I had to bring in handwritten/drawn pictures to assist with my lack of speech and illustrates some of my points .

Thinking back to my presentation, the pictures assisted with my speech greatly because I was speaking about the written Chinese language and not the spoken dialects.  Specifically, I was speaking about what I know of the traditional Chinese characters.  To explain my point about how the characters were created based on appearance, I shown the evolution of the word Sun, water and some other characters that I cannot remember.  For example, at the beginning, the Chinese character for Sun was simply a circle with a dot in the middle.  Eventually, it became how it looks like today.

I taped my drawings all over the blackboard and went over them picture by picture. I wonder how someone else will give this speech today with all the new or improved technologies.

If I was a teacher, I wonder if it is mundane or very interesting to listen to speeches every year.  I always dragged the annual speeches because I disliked public speaking very much; however, I loved hearing other people speeches on the day that I am not presenting.