Global Communicators Toastmasters Club

Date: May 2 2012 Theme: Mountains TM: Lili Li Word of the day: magnificent
Guests: Emma, Fiona Li, Terry, Gillian Huo, Soon, Su Junxing

With CK welcome all guests and members, TM Lili began her theme promotion stories. they were focused on mountains: her father carried her on back from bottom of Tai all the way up to the summit when she was her 5 years old; her night climbing experience of Hua, and her impressive experience of Huang climbing with her father, she was surprised to see her father being afraid of steping downstairs from the summit.

Being GE, Ross was in his way of bringing new ideas to the meeting, he linked the them moutain with evaluation as: Evaluation teams are the eyes when you were in the mountains which keep you from falling down the from the top down.

Grammarian Bob, Timer David and Ah Counter Liu Bing took turn on to the stage to explain their duties.

In TT session, Dana listed 8 out of her 15 climbed mountains for speakers to share ideas in relating with the mountains
Soon chose “Everest” and was asked to imagine what it would be like when he was at the top position of his company
Rolf chose “Jing” and was asked to imagine the life going back 300 years in the age of the last emperor of Ming Dynasty. He dragged the tragedy of hanging into a happy ending after his past twenty years of living with Girls, money and good food
Zhao Qing chose “Tai”, she explained her feeling of seeing the magnificent Sunrise on the summit of Tai, in brief, it was Hope.
Terry chose “Hua”, he was asked to explain his story of adventures
Jacky chose “Huang”, he took the opportunity to recall some warm moment of being in Huang mountain with her wife.
Gillian chose “Song”, she was asked to imagine what KongFu would bring her magical changes, she successfully quoted her wedding participating story in the May holiday to express her imagination about the magic.
Su chose “Xiang”, he was asked to explain how he went out of many low points of life.

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TM – Bibo
Theme introduction – Enjoy Spring Outing
TTM – Monica Kwan

Hongqing- expected out for next time is Fishing. Fishing can bring you various feeling and 
         reminder him his happy childhood.
 Xiaoqiu – As a owner of a supplementary bank card , he is happy to spend money on the
        card to make Yijiao looks more pretty.
 Su – He strongly believe 1 credit card is enough to handle all his purchasing. More credit
       cards will lead to more extra efforts. He is planning to increase credit amount. But 
       he did not feel it is necessary to purchase luxury goods. He will consider to buy 
       luxury goods if there is a pretty girl attracted his attention.
 Zhangcheng – His next travel destination is Yunan in 1st May as there are kind people,
      enjoying culture differences. Dali is following as the beauty of its nature, 
      production and hotel and nice food.
 Elva –- Many foreigners at Chaoyang park, playing football, boating and play cards.
     Touring Hutong challenge the history of tour guide and ma get lost in lost.
 Zhaoqing – his most memorable spring outing is leading group of students with other
      two member staff to Huanghuacheng. Allowing students makes mistake 
      during practice and skillfully make students aware of their mistake is a great 
      experiences in leadership development. 

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Spring is Coming  by Toastmaster Bob                                W.O.D.: Vitality

Minutes taker: Lili

Highlights:
Our VPE Bob, asked us ” what does spring mean to you ” and shared his thoughts related with the season by explaining that spring is the perfect time to make plans for the whole year, and gave his best wishes to our members who were also born in April as he was.

Table topics section hosted by Dana. Dana chose the colors of rainbow to represent questions and asked each speaker to pick his or her favorite color.
(1)  Betty, who is from Beijing No. 1 club, chose the passionate color RED and recalled how toastmaster has transferred her dressing styles and her attitude towards life.
(2)  Helen, our another guest, chose GREEN as this signals life. Quite a coincidence, Helen is also planning some fresh starts in her life.
(3)  Felix chose YELLOW and was asked to share a warm-hearted story. He expressed how he was surprised at the birthday party his roommates prepared for him at his first year in college.
(4)  Porsher, our long-time-no-see member, chose the mysterious VIOLET, and talked about what her reaction was when asked to start on a completely new assignment at work.
(5)  Guest Tania chose BLUE which she thinks is her color of success, and told us how she dealt with her male business partners successfully.
(6)  Guest Jillian chose INDIGO and shared her grandma’s story about how to embark on a new journey after some sad things happened.

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Meeting Theme: what’s your price? Toastmaster: Rolf Chew          Date: March 28, 2012        Word of the day: Precious    Minutes taker: Dana Du

Highlights:

Rolf Chew, famous for his “lazy” character, is good at sale, especially himself. Every day we are selling things, include produces and ourselves. He believes that the reason why sale is so important is because the products are not perfect enough. Any kind of sale method is a necessary compensate for the products. And there are four levels of sales. In turn is sale products, sale itself, sale demand, the highest level and the most smart one is sale ideas.

Table topics section hosted by Monica:

She ask the participators sale seven articles for daily use to direct person. At last she use a short story sales all seven things to all of us.

(1) Dana, has to sale a telephone line to superman. She call for family bone lead the whole table topic keynote. She believes the telephone line links superman and his parents in Krypton together. (But Monica thought may be the line can be a belt helps superman’s underwear be tight—funny!)

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