Toastmaster
Karlie GU
The second outbreak of Covid-19 had disturbed many people’s regular plan to get home to meet with their family members. Home was somewhere that carried lots of emotions and feelings. It may not be a large house and may be hundreds of kilometers away, yet many people still fight for getting time to go home for love and laughter.
Home was one of the warmest words in the world for Karlie. She would feel relaxed when arriving at home after a tired working day. Karlie shared many actions that would heal her like preparing for the meals, having a casual talk with her husband, cleaning the house or fiddling with flowers. She would try to finish her work as quickly as possible in business trips to go back home earlier. Sometimes, her mom, dad or her father-in-law spared their time accompanying her in Beijing and brought some hometown food, their cooking would remind her of childhood flavor.
Yet, home sometimes can bring hurts. She still remembered when she was a little girl, her mom and dad quarreled intensely and frequently, and their quarrel always happened on Spring Festival holiday which made this holiday become one of her nightmares. After she grew up and had some experience of intimacy, she gradually realized what her original family brought to her, she wanted to escape yet she had to accept the reality, the process was not easy and painful. Fortunately, she was now on her way to build ideal home with her husband and was also accepting the influence from original family. This self-reconciliation process was very valuable and precious for her.
Question 1: If you could live in anywhere, where is your dream home location?
Ruby chose to live in Beijing. She came here since 2014, and became a teacher here. She shared about her happy life here, she could make more money, meet friends in SWU and others groups, she could also get so much delicious food here. She found that people always want to make dreams come true, but the life they actually face to is the dream.
Strength: Brave to challenging herself; Good structure with opening reason and conclusion.
Suggestion: Could share her example in a story so audience could be more engaged.
Question 2: What’s your definition of HOME?
Shiling thought home was where her family members living together. She rarely lived with her family after she went to university. She couldn’t go back to live in her home town, because she couldn’t get a good job there. It was just a dream to live with her father and mother. For her, home means her father, mother, the cats and dogs and the streets in her home town.
Strength: Sound relax and confident; The content was very clear.
Suggestion: Could practice more to be more fluent; Could fix the camera.
Question 3: At home, do you think we should keep privacy as well?
Ray agreed that keeping privacy was necessary at home. He shared a room with his brother when he was a child, but he though he needed privacy when he grew up. It was important for everyone to have their secrets, they need a private room to write diary, keep cats, read books alone without speaking to anyone.
Strength: Brave to show up in Table Topics; Answered directly; Good to engage with audience.
Suggestion: Could use direct eye contact.
Question 4: What’s your favorite hometown food?
Fancy’s favorite hometown food was the noodle made by her father. When she was a child, her father used to cook noodle to them when he was at home, but only gave them money to eat outside when he was not. Although her father was not a good cooker, when she looked back to this memory, she felt the noodle was not only food but also love. Recently, due to the policy, she couldn’t go home to celebrate the 80’s birthday with her father, she was so cherished about the time with her father.
Strength: Shared a vivid story; Good sharing of feeling; Clear pronunciation.
Suggestion: Could pay attention to time management on reflection; Could open video.
Table Topics Master: Jenny ZHANG
Strength: Good control of stage, smooth transition; Good interaction with audience; Shared strategy with audience; Open question, good introduction on rule.
Suggestion: Could take more TTM role.
Speaker 1: Coco LI
Level 1, Project 2 Evaluation and Feedback 2nd
Title: Find meaning of work
Coco thought her job was boring and didn’t like the job when she started becoming a teacher in an international kindergarten. But she changed her view after she saw how her colleague helped a child to build good behaviors. She met a trouble boy, who was always crying and didn’t have a nap at afternoon. Instead of blaming the boy, her colleague came to the boy when he made a trouble, and explained and helped him to correct his behaviors. After seeing the children becoming politer and nicer, Coco realized the meaning of her job and how it played an important role in children’s life. She changed her attitude and worked hard to be a professional teacher, and found the sense of achievement from her job.
Evaluator 1
Emily HUANG
Strength: Had progress in time management; Good opening; Used questions to connect audience successfully; Natural and wonderful transition.
Suggestion: Could add personal story about her students in ending; Could relax more and pay some attention on vocal variety.
Speaker 2: Gracie ZHANG
Level 3, Project 1 Planning and Implementing
Title:Thinking and Doing
Gracie usually made some plans but most of them failed to reach such as the new year’s planning. She asked help from her friends and shared why she failed to implement. She realized that the key point was not only making planning and implementing, but also found what she really wanted and what were really important things for her. She tried to make some summaries every day, every week, every month, and adjusted her schedules. These actions helped her better reach her goals. In the end, she recommended some projects in Toastermasters which include suggestions to make plans scientifically and how to reach goals. She hoped every audience could find their ways to achieve their goals.
Evaluator 2
Gloria LIU
Strength: The topic was interesting and attracted audience’s attention; Had complete structure: opening, body and ending. The words used were clear and was easily understood.
Suggestion: Could be more combined with the requirements of the project; Could properly show how to design the plan scientifically.
General Evaluator's Comments
Toastmaster: Karlie GU
Strength: The topic was very interesting; Demonstrated awareness of audience engagement and need; Spoken language was clear and was easily understood; Effectively used eye contact to engage audience.
Suggestion: Would be better to give some operating instructions about the new operation to the audience.
Timer: Summer ZHANG
Strength: Prepared well; Well-constructed content; Spoken language was clear easily understood; Controlled the whole meeting’s time well.
Suggestion: Would be better if using eye contact to engage audience.
Ah Counter: Zia ZHAO
Strength: Used very creative way to do the role; Engaged audience with interesting, well-constructed content; Spoken language was clear easily understood; Used tone, speed, and volume as tool; Used physical gestures effectively; Demonstrated awareness of audience engagement and needs.
Suggestion: None.
Wordsmith: Cheese WANG
Strength: Relax and natural when spoke; Spoken language was clear and easily understood; Gestures: Used physical gestures effectively; Brought the audience some useful ways to pronounce correctly.
Suggestion: None.
Table Topics Evaluator: Sissi QI
Strength: Had done well in time management; Very fluent.
Suggestion: None.
Evaluator 1: Emily HUANG
Strength: Had good structure; Clear suggestions; Comments was reasonable and convincing.
Suggestion: None.
Evaluator 2: Gloria LIU
Strength: Had done well in time management; Comments was reasonable and convincing.
Suggestion: None.
New Member Installation Summer ZHANG:
Summer shared she liked drawing, cats and was interested in hypnosis recently. Her current job was headhunting.
Question 1: Do you have growth plan for the following half year? What are you willing to contribute to the plan? (Porsher CHEUNG)
Answer: Summer would plan to join the club every week and did different roles in the meeting and she would like to planed spend half an hour on drawing.
Question 2: What will you do when you get bad feedback from other members that you should improve? (Gloria LIU)
Answer: Summer told the audience that she would not felt get hurt, experiences of her job let her can handle embarrassed situation and she hoped members in SWU treated her strictly.
Summer got full vote and passed new member voting, her mentor was Porsher CHEUNG.
New Member Installation Lydia ZHANG:
Lydia shared after she joined SWU club, she found SWU was a place where people in there were warm, friendly. She likes it very much. She wanted to improve these skills in social contact and communication.
Question 1: Do you have growth plan for the following half year? What are you willing to contribute to the plan? (Porsher CHEUNG)
Answer: Lydia would like to practice her pronounce firstly. She would prepare very speech carefully.
Question 2: What will you do when you get bad feedback from other members that you should improve? (Gloria LIU)
Answer: Lydia said she would accept others』 good suggestions and put it into actions to improve herself, although sometimes she would not accept them immediately.
Lydia got full vote and passed new member voting, her mentor would be Sara LIU.
Best Prepared Speaker
Gracie ZHANG
Best Prepared Speaker
Coco LI
Best Supporting Role
Zia ZHAO
Best Table Topics Speaker
Ruby WU
Visiting Guests
Ray WANG; Hannah HAN; Jinkui; Mike G; Fancy ZHU.
Attending Members
Jenny ZHANG; Jack HUI; Ruby WU; Gracie ZHANG; Karlie GU; Summer ZHANG; Ryan HE; Porsh CHEUNG; Zia ZHAO; Sissi QI; Cheese WANG; Ena LI; Iris ZHANG; Sara LIU; Shiling LIN; Lydia ZHANG; Mengmeng CHANG; Coco LI; Honggang WEI; Charlotte SUN; Emily HUANG; Gloria LIU.
Minutes Taker
Ena LI&Jack HUI
ShareWithU Toastmaster Club註冊於2013年，是Toastmaster International D88大區的一員，是一家英語俱樂部，專注提高公眾演講水平和領導力！
By sharing with you, we learn and grow together!
共同分享，共同進步，共同成長，是我們的理念！
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Gracie ZHANG (President)
18810637284
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