Being out of the comfort zone

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My first experience as an interpreter!


In this blog, I will be talking about my experience in interpreting. On 22 of November, there was a talk titled ‘Hearing faces, seeing accents’ presented in Qatar University by Ingrid Piller a professor of applied linguistics and the department wanted students to volunteer for interpreting her talk to Arabic.                                        



I would not usually have the courage to do that because I am still a beginner and I’m not really trained, but my friends encouraged me to participate with them in this exciting yet challenging experience, I agreed to push myself and get out of my comfort zone. 

We were seven girls and we took turns so that each one of us interpret for 5 minutes. My turn comes, and I feel very nervous but excited at the same time. At first, I missed up and my brain was still processing what it has to do and what’s going on, but later when I got the hang of it, it becomes less hard and stressful. 




To sum up, I enjoyed the experience very much regardless of my performance. I feel proud and happy with myself and what it can do, and I recommend you to push past your limits and get out of your comfort zone because you are the only person who can help you do it. Also, I want to say that I’m blessed with the friends I have that help me go forward and not backward and we should all surround ourselves with this kind of people. 

I’m very happy with the fun opportunities the University gives!








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