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user-inactivated  ·  2334 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: That one awesome priest

    For those maths outreach lectures I'm doing, I spend about two hours on working out the mathematical bits, and something like twenty on making it approachable to people in high schools. Doing the illustrations, looking for something that's a good "wake up" remark or interjection, timing everything… and that's a lot of work.

Does getting prepared and giving them get easier as you go on?

    The problem with today's sermon I have is that I wasn't exaggerating. I could feel how tired was the priest. He talked like someone unaware there's anyone listening. It was all kinds of wrong, even those devout grannies looked disinterested.

Ouch. I've sat through a few dry ones before, but at least the grannies were listening. :)