Shanghai People's Square ToastMasters Club

  As the May Day golden holiday is drawing nearer and nearer, many people started designing their plans. It can be travelling to gorgeous beaches, visiting parents, meeting with old friends. However, People Square Toastmasters Club Weekly Meeting should be what you cannot afford to miss as the theme of this week was “Golden Holiday” and we shared with each other a lot of ideas and imagination for the exciting holiday.

   I would like to say Spike has done a wonderful job as the Acting President in that he ignited the evening with a passionate and enthusiastic opening. You are really an “Aries”!

   Thompson, the TME led the whole meeting smoothly in a humorous yet logical manner. You added vitality to this evening!

   I believe Neil contentiously prepared for ”Table Topic” session from two perspectives. One is that he carefully chose each question to be addressed. The other is that he designed the session with some creativity (for the first time, we saw lovers’ dialogue and we also enjoyed the debate between the two guests on the topic about “extended holiday is better or not”). Thanks, Neil! Great job!

   As for Prepared Speeches, Tommy delivered his second C1 speech at such a short notice(less than 8 hours’ time) and also at a higher quality! Expectedly, he earned “Best Speaker” in this meeting. While, on the other hand, Zhanglin used his C3 speech sharing with members and guests his company and his job with his technical expertise. Though the topic is uncommon, the speech still introduced a lot of laughter. The secret is black humor. Want to have black humor? Please just ask Zhang Lin! He is the black humor king!

   Among all evaluators, I appreciate Joy’s evaluation and comments very much for two reasons. One is that she used simple words and phrases in the evaluation session so that each speaker can understand her and another reason is that she used a diagram in which she listed all table topic speakers and their respective merits and shortcomings which can make her evaluation more smoothly. I really learned from her.

   Last but not least, let me extend our gratitude to all of you! You are the ones who made this meeting a success and People Square Toastmasters Club a shining star.

Wow, PSTMC has two more new members again in April! What
they have in common is that both of them are students. David
is from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Racheal is from
Shanghai University of Finance and Economy. As David and
Racheal, PSTMC always have people with diversified
backgrounds joining us and that is the secret formulation of
our culture-openness. Let us send our best wishes to them!

On 17th, April, People Square Toastmasters Club held a “New Member Orientation Dinner” for recently-joined new members. In the “Orientation Dinner”, officers introduced PSTMC’s mission, responsibilities of officer roles, and member roles to new members. In the mean time, new members got to know each other better by casual talk and small games. All enjoyed the dinner very much! Thanks! The organizer of this meeting, our MVP, Spike Gu and thanks!PSTMC for your support and caring!

Relations of various kind affect every facets of our everyday life. That is why we chose “relationship” as the theme of our meeting this week. Because without good relationship with people around us, how can we enhance our communications skills and achieve excellence?

I would like to say our TME-Roawin has done an excellent job by guiding us to play a small game in the beginning and in this way, we better understand how to foster relations, both physically and mentally.

The Special Sharing was what I enjoyed the most in the evening. Our professional trainer, Linda Ma delivered a “Sales Traning” to teach us how to sell our products and even ourselves. The opening, with some questions, got enthusiastic response from the audience and created great interactions. During the process, Linda designed “Role Play” so that every audience was involved in the training. And in the end, Linda shared with some simple and easy-to-remember sales tips and in this way, people can better digest and absorb. The whole session was educational and we all learned a great deal from it! Thanks, Linda!

Ben Dai as TTM proposed a series of questions regarding “relations”(including office relations, love relations, relations with parents) to the audience and five members and guests bravely shared with their stories and experiences. What was most impressive was Sam, a member from 5A+! He even depicted a plot on how he courageously confessed his love to his girl.

As for the prepared speeches, all are great speeches! Megan told the audience why she wanted to be back to Toastmasters Club; Bourne lectured on “Environment Protection” and our most distinguished Peter delivered a very humorous speech on his “Japanese Experience”.

Evaluators proposed various suggestions and advice to the speakers on how to inprove their speeches from different perspectives based on their different experiences. They are the most lovely people as without them, how can we enhance our communication skills?

The award ceromony was the most expected every time. Sam got “The Most Impressive Table Topic Speaker”, Peter received “The Best Speaker” and Daniel got “The Best Evaluator”. Let us congratulate them!

Because of our passion, professionalism, and dedication, several guests decided to join us as a member on site! People Square Toastmasters Club ROCKS!

Two new members just joined our club! They are Oscar and
Megan. Oscar made his C1 speech on 13th, April and he earned
“The Best Speaker” that evening! Let us congratulate on his successful “virgin show”. Can his good luch pass to Megan?
Let us expect the evening of 20th, April!