Word: desperate—long for
Quote: Stay hungry, Stay foolish—said by Steve Jobs
Table Topic Session was always an interesting part in our club. Today, participants got a letter and said anything about the letter with his/her imagination. The first challenger was Matt. At first, he was confused by the letter “p/d” on the paper, but immediately he made the relationship between the letter with the word tonight ” desperate”, which contained both “p” and “d”. Then he successfully presented his speech with good structure and nice ending. Joe’s letter was “S”. It was amazing that he spoke out so many words with “S” in such a logical order. ” Start to speak… several… second… start…stop… names… super… so…someday… students… similar, special…s(th)ousands…” his fast thinking and humorous speech gave us strong impression. Allen always could inspire others’ emotion with his zealousness. His letter “J” of course brought us a lot of fun because he related it with “joker”. Also, guest Denis thought “t” as “tea”, Rebecca took “h” for “chair” cause of its figure, Jason Jia considered “l” as “love”, C.K. took “b” as “beginner”. Thanks for our TTM Forrest, who gave us a chance to exhibit such wonderful imagination with the simplest tools—-26 English letters.
Jade Shen made her ice breaker speech today. She introduced herself in the following picture (Sorry for my poor painting, although I had tried my best to copy her’s). As her constellation was double fish and her blood type was AB, Jade Shen thought herself was a girl with two sides. And she presented her character with a surprising story in her childhood that she began to say words in her 2 years’ old. F（French）and E (England) were the her dreaming countries. And the boy and girl in the picture were her Mr. dreamy and herself of course. As a CC1 speaker, Jade gave her speech in such a vivid picture with jokes and rich body language, although her pronunciation and the story structure needed get improved, it was a great success for her. (cause some unknown reason , please see the accesory to appreciate the picture)
Grace made her CC3 speech. In her belief, “love is more powerful than death”. She persuaded us with a moving love story and made the final conclusion “Devoting love is true love”. Her confidence, good gesture and colorful pictures got high evaluation for her evaluator Matt.
Susan shared her driving experience with us. Personally, I liked her speech very much, especially as she described her intense mood in which she drove her car as a greener, some onomatopoeia, variations in her voice and gestures helped her speech full of fun. But as the evaluator Denis pointed out, if she had more eye contact and had better organized the structure, such as revising the beginning and ending, she would do better.
Anyway, this was a funny evening. Thanks a lot for our toastmaster Lydia.
By the way, in this summary, I combined my evaluation with those of the evaluators, sometimes for some reason, I cited their sentences without saying their name or without quotation marker. If you don’t think it’s OK, or you don’t like the writing style, please let me know, I’ll try my best to do better. Thank you very much.
The best table topic speaker: Matt
The best speaker: Jade Shen
The best evaluator: Denis
The best function role: Lydia
Club announcements:
(1) The Area speech contest will be held this Saturday at our home club from 10-11am. There will be 4 competitors, and Joe is going to participate on the behalf of our club. If you can, please attend and support Joe in winning the Area contest. Good luck Joe.
(2) The Chinese Toastmasters Conference will be held in Shanghai on May 30, 31 and June 1. Any one who wants to be there, please tell Rolf know and he will order the train ticket for you. Then you will get some special offer. The dead line is April 30. Don’t lose the good chance.
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