Meeting Theme: Conditions of Happiness
Host by: Liu Bing
Highlights:
Do you feel happy? When and Why you may get these kind of feelings? Toastmaster Liubing lead this happy theme to us by asking these questions. We came out many different answers: Because of people, events, ideas, outings purpose, etc. In conclusion, Liubing said the simple way about feeling happy is from a word “Expectation”. Happiness is a decision. YOU are the one to decide whether to happen.
Table Topics session hosted by Sidney:
Justine met the choice between health and career, she definitely chose health from her past painful experiences. And reminded everyone must enjoy life over work.
Porsher chose car rather than career, because car gave her a better goal to pursuit her career and that’s a rewarding feeling.
Sebastian combined two words “car” and “education” to “Educator” and gave his creative and passion speech.
Issa said she did not care about reputation and chose friends and partners as that’s the important contributes to happy life.
Simon thought it’s hard to make a decision between career and house. But he had no doubt that house is very important to men.
Portia thought friends is more important than education, because friends can always do sharing. Read more »
We had a rewarding committee meeting this weekend and we will have very interesting meetings for you!
Coming meeting’s Toastmaster Liu Bing:
In this warm spring season, many of us would throw ourselves into the sprouting nature in pursuit of joyful happiness. During your leisure time please think about a question: “what’s the conditions of your happiness?”,
I will invite you to share your opinions on the question, with your sharing our them of “Conditions of Happiness” will be explored. This question is crucial to our continuous happiness and it has big influence of our life quality. With Global Communicators sharing our ideas your room of life would possibly embrace a fresh beam of sunshine.
Meeting Theme: Spicy Spring
Toastmaster: Lily Li
Highlights:
Lily initiated the meeting by spicy ideas on how we could put ourselves to get off the routine and put some spice into our lives. That will help us to learn new definition of life and develop a new skills and good habits. In her case, she enrolled into acupuncture class. How about us?
Table Topics Session: Becky Bi
Becky spiced up our table topics session which involved everyone in the meeting room. She initiated the story of winning a lotto of 5million RMB and went to Africa…strange things happened along the way: attracted by the scene, over shopping loss half the money, aware that’s only a dream; time to make a change then went to Tibet and needed to play guitar, look for help from TM in QingHai to make a living then learnt KungFu, somehow being recognized as Cuba’s princess and went to World Cup and had a romance with the famous soccer player. Never too late to pursuit a dream in writing this story for 2 years.
That’s the result of our members’ creative and twisted input. Table topics evaluator Justine had a hard time to evaluate all of the members but she appreciated all members’ active imagination and reaction to the story. Read more »
Meeting Theme: Matching the Mentor and Mentee
Host: Cindy Gong
Highlights: Mentoring is always around us. Our parents are our lifelong mentors. They can be our career guide, emotion buddy. but no matter what career they are, their different experiences always have something we can learn from each other. Being a mother, Cindy got all round of help from experienced mothers from community. She encouraged that’s the best to have someone be the guide. Read more »
First Congratulations to Rolf won the 2nd place in the Division A Contest. This coming meeting our SAA Lily will be our Toastmaster of the meeting. Looking forward to her meeting!
From Toastmaster of meeting LILY:
As it is said:” Winter has come, is Spring far away?” It is so true for this year, as it is merely Spring now, and it is already near the end of April. This Spring has been messy with the sand storms, but now it is time to make it spicy with our marvelous ideas.
So, in this late Spring, what would you like to do? To watch a good movie? To enjoy a ever-wanted meal? To see some drama? To go climbing the mountains? To play some board games? Or you have other crazy staff to share? Let’s just meet on Wed. and get a spicy spring, even a spicy life.
Mentoring is an intervention that has proven highly effective and has become especially popular in recent years, not only in TM, not only in the workplace, we need Mentoring from mentors who are wise and trusted guides and advisors to shares their experience while bringing us as the “mentees” up the ranks in many categories of our life. That’s why we would have “Matching the Mentor and Mentee” as the theme to raise some discussion and critical thinking about how to benifit ourselves from this new trend of life long learning.
Especially we will have a guest speaker from Alcatel Lucent SSTMC’s mentorship officer Wang Yue to share her club’s experience with us.
Sound the meeting would be over academic-oriented? Don’t be freak out, bring your humor and related interesting expriences, work with me to make it a meaningful meeting for all of us, your punctual present and unique contribution to the meeting would be highly appreciated.
Best Regards!
Cindy Gong
TM of the meeting
Their performance are great! And I would like to congratulates Lily and Sebrina, their first time contest masters’ performance are wonderful to show GC’s spirit.
Our Champions:
Sissi won the third place in her first area contest in Table Topics Contest
Porsher won the second place in her first area contest in Mandarin Speech Showcase (Mandarin is not her first language)
Rolf won the International Speech Contest
We are proud for them. And hopefully Rolf able to make it to Division level next Saturday!! Read more »
Meeting Theme: On the road
Host: First time toastmaster Sissi Yang
Highlights:
How’d you spend your qingming holiday? Did you travel with your family or friends? Sissi shared her trip experience on Taishan mountain during this holiday. She climbed the mountain in midnight in order to see the sunrise and had a good time.
Table Topics session host by Rolf:
Simon faced the situation that his parents do not allow his travelling.
Lily did a quick survey of “change May holiday into 7 days” to support her points.
Cindy Shi used own story to explained that “true love can happen during travelling.”
Cindy Gong recommended some good places,like rivers,train,bank,even the Guodegang of her homtown Tianjin.
Libby described two kinds of people who she like or don’t like during travelling.
Our first time visit guest Young told us his favorite form of transport”bicycle”.
Porsher changed her question to the oppsite one as she is a interesting face during travelling. Read more »
We will have our Area 12 contest will be held at B&V on April 11 13:30 – 16:30.
Our club will have Sissi, Porsher and Rolf to represent us to compete.
They need your support !!
And our members Jason is the MC of this event. Lily, Monica and Sebrina will be the contest masters, So Why don’t you join us this joyful Sunday together? Read more »
As the old saying goes “reading ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles.” I believe travelling is an eye-opening and fun experience. What is the most impressive experience during your trips, who are the most impressive people you have encountered while traveling, and have you got to know yourself better on the road? In the coming meeting, I would like to hear what you have to say over the topic of “On the Road”. You may have talked about this topic before, but I guess there are still a lot to update, particularly when you are refreshed from Qingming Festival, the second three-day national holiday in the year.
Since many of you (including myself) may come back home on Monday-the last day of the vacation, I will confirm your availability on Tuesday. If you already know that you can’t make it to the next meeting, please kindly find your role replacement as soon as possible. Many thanks!
I look forward to seeing you guys next Wednesday and also to my first toastmaster role!
Sissi
Toastmasters of the meeting
