{"id":1396,"date":"2011-03-07T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2011-03-07T08:11:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T04:11:01","slug":"my-nervous-presentation-before-high-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/my-nervous-presentation-before-high-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"My Nervous Presentation Before High School Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A view of Dinah Hobson's "office" which is used for subjects pertaining to "Indian Studies" which is where I did my presentation - notice the "button blanket" backdrop for the Native news clippings, etc.<\/p><\/div>\n

Like they are “just” high school students, duh?\u00a0 Why the heck would I be so nervous in front of them?\u00a0 Like I’ve done presentations and performances to audiences of up to 2000 total strangers; why would I sweat over presenting my life’s work before 13 kids in 9th, 10th and 11th grade who are part of the “early scholars” group? – Well, it’s like this:\u00a0 have you ever kept Jr. High and High School kids from being bored?<\/p>\n

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High school teacher, Karina Reyes and Clarissa meet for the first time; she asked about the last name of Rizal, like is Clarissa related to the Filipino martyr Jose Rizal? The answer: Yes. He was cousin to Clarissa's paternal grandmother, Patricia Rizal Lampe. Rizal was Clarissa's grandmother's maiden name. Clarissa's birth name was Clarissa Rizal Lampe; when she married in 1977, she changed it to Clarissa Rizal Hudson; when she divorced in 2009, she dropped the Hudson<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dinah Hobson, Jamelyn "Jay" Zeller, Karina Reyes, Nicole George and Clarissa Rizal<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jay Zeller shows Clarissa her drawing pad full of sketched characters and their names.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Leandrea Makaily, Taylee Escalante, Jay Zeller, Nicole George, Clarissa and Karina Reyes hang out and talk "artists talk!"<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like they are “just” high school students, duh?\u00a0 Why the heck would I be so nervous in front of them?\u00a0 Like I’ve done presentations and performances to audiences of up to 2000 total strangers; why would I sweat over presenting my life’s work before 13 kids in 9th, 10th and 11th grade who are part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,50],"tags":[62,124],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes-retreats-apprentices","category-tlingit-cultural-events","tag-alaskan-artists","tag-juneau-douglas-high-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}