Shanghai People's Square ToastMasters Club

    Excited as I was, this meeting was a kind of creative product! I could not help but feeling “high” as I was finally able to invite my hometown’s toastmasters club to People Square Toastmasters Club and pleased to see the first joint meeting since I joined!

    One of the best things this evening was that we had two Presidents play the master of the evening and there was no doubt that this was sure to be the shiniest meeting because of the two most beautiful girls!

    Jolie has made an excellent TME by appropriate introductions of every role, little humor and grace.

    Though I did not make the 2010 Spring Conference, I still had the opportunity to hear what Roawin, President of PSTMC shared. This special sharing broadened my horizon and enriched my knowledge with regards to Toastmaster Conference. I cannot thank you enough for your selfless sharing!

    Though we had only two speakers in the meeting, they are really marvelous! Spike from People Square Toastmasters Club, picked up his C1 speech again in a traditional 3-point manner. The best and perhaps the most memorable moments for me was his opening and ending as he played a little game which created some connections with the audience. In this way, the audience can listen to the speaker more attentively. Spike, “You are really passionate!”

    The second speech was delivered by Sandy from Changsha No.1 Toastmasters Club. It was her C5 speech and the objective is “Your body speaks!” I would like to say this was a really “body-speaking speech” as Sandy used gestures every moment! The truth was it was not only her body spoke, but also her face spoke! She depicted a funny yet a little bit embarrassing story which created so much laughter. I love this speech so much! Expectedly, she won the best speaker this evening!

    I was not only grateful for People Square Toastmasters Club giving me the rare chance meeting with my town fellows, more because the two clubs chaired a wonderful meeting which benefited me.

    Thank YOU! Let us look forward to our next joint meeting with CAT on 18th, May!

  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.