My Comfortability

I am currently in college and am taking a Human Communications class. On the first day of class, the professor asked the class to write down a number from the scale of 1-100 based on how comfortable we are with public speaking. The number I choose was 22. Public speaking makes me very uncomfortable, and I do not like speaking infront of unfamiliar people.  In high school, even with the people I was around everyday, speeches were not my favorite. I would get very nervous, my face would turn red, and I would stumble over what I wanted to say. After being in this class for just over a semester, I feel that my nervousness is getting better. I still get nervous before my speeches, but I just always tell myself "just get it over with", and "no one will judge." I would now rate myself at 40 :) I hope by the end of the class I can at least rate myself at 60!