How I passed the speaking exam for C1 in German

How I passed the speaking exam for C1 in German Just a story I wanted to share with you. I'm at the 12th grade and I'm studying German and English as foreign languages in my school which gives the opportunity to prepare me for the exams for C1 in German for free. To get C1 I needed to pass 2 exams: one for writing and one for speaking. The second one was worrying me for obvious reasons. I learned about the breathing technique that was supposed to help with my stuttering 2 years before the exam. The first months that I used it it worked like magic but then suddenly I found it extremely hard to use and I began to stutter again. I lost faith in it. Every time I was going to speak in front of the class (as a preparation for the exam) I knew it's pure luck whether I'd stutter or not. And most times I stuttered which made me feel... bad. It would've been a pity if I relied only on luck for my exam and if I failed after years of hard work. 6 months before the exam, it was time to find a summer job, most of which involved working in a hotel. Even though I was sure it'd be a mistake, I chose to be a receptionist in a hotel with hundreds of guests, most of which were Germans. I had the "get out of your comfort zone" mindset and now looking back to it, I admit I went too far. It was a complete disaster and I got fired after a month. But surprisingly the problem wasn't my stuttering. It was my mindset that was incompatible with the job, which involved constant multitasking, documenting and literally ALL kinds of different work. It was a constant struggle and no matter how much I tried, I always felt out of place and did mistakes all the time. As for the stutter, it was there all the time but it was so minor that people mistaked it for nervousness. And it became almost nonexistent because I used the breathing technique and combined it with the inevitable everyday communication with German tourists. I had to put a lot of conscious effort because I used my whole breath for just a few words and when I was speaking for a long time sometimes I even felt becoming a little dizzy because of the huge air flow I needed. As receptionist it was my job to explain the dozens of new guests that arrived every day about the hotel, to solve all of their problems so with each day I was becoming more confident and better at using the technique. Germans were complimenting my speech. Then as I said I got fired. And I'm happy I did because if I had continued, I'd have gotten burnt out. When I got back to school I was speaking absolutely fluently. The stress of speaking in front of the class was nothing compared to the stress of speaking to a group of foreigners so I guess that helped. I passed the speaking exam and didn't stutter even once. The combination of knowing a technique and the constant need to use it, speaking to strangers, allowed me overcome my stutter in German. There was little to no improvement in my speech in my mother language and English so I guess I'll have to master them too.