Guest Speakers

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Have you ever had a chance to have a guest speaker in class? Better yet, have you ever had a guest speaker in class that you thought it was going to be so different? Well, a few days ago I had the chance to experience this type of situation. I went into my class and didn’t recognize a big wide man sitting on the teacher’s chair. I shortly realized that it was the guest speaker my teacher was talking about a week ago. I believe that the reason why I didn’t see the “wide guy” as the guest speaker was because he didn’t look professional. I know that we are not suppose to judge people for the way they look, but now I recognize I did wrong. We are not suppose to judge people for the way they look, for the way the express themselves, and for the way they were years ago.
I always see doctors, teachers, and other professional people as professional looking people, but I didn’t see the guest speaker as a professional looking guy. He had this jeans and t-shirt that was just not professional. His hair was a little long and he just basically was not looking his best. I believe that if you are going to do a professional job, you need to dress professional. Obviously I now think different, I now realize that people may dress the way they want, at least as they express their personal point of view.
The way people talk also say a lot of their values and beliefs. I believe that you should talk in the correct manner everywhere, no matter who is near you. Our guest speaker in class expressed himself with really ugly words that could of offense someone there in class. He probably felt so comfortable that he felt expressing himself with that type of language, but if you think about it, its okay, at long as its okay with the rest of the people hearing the conversation! At first I thought that what he was doing was wrong, but after realized that it wasn’t making me and the rest of the class uncomfortable. You see, you need to adapt to any ki...