A Bridge to Chinese

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I was the toastmaster of July 29th WLB Toastmasters Club meeting. The day after my birthday. The time I wanted to give myself an oppotunity to challenge myself  at the second day of my 30. The  second time to be hostess of an activity, the first time in English. I still remember my first time, that was 5 years ago. I am very young and full of energy. I weared in my favourite red sweat which today I thought a little bit conservative. Has my taste changed? No, I still keep my simple and casual style. But I know current me will choose more fit ones to tell the inside me. That was a big success. After that New Year Gala, I became famous in my form company. Everybody knew me.

The toast master is even more interesting and challenging. I told Alex one day that I hope I cloud know TOASTMASTERS earlier. This NGO  is not an organization only to improve your English or language skills. If you take this idea in your mind, then I will say don’t come to Toastmasters, there are a lot of other clubs, like English corners, you can join in.  Toastmasters is a place to excel yourself, to complete yourself, to appreciate yourself. Here, you will have a lot of jobs to take. As a speaker, a evaluator, a timer, a grammarian, a toast master, or a sergeant at arms, a secretary, a vice president membership, a president.  Here, you will know where your limitations are and how you can bulid yourselves physically and mentally strong enough to realize your dreams.

At that night, I challenged my limitation, and bulit my body and mind stonger. I knew I could.

But there was a mistake drawing me to an embarrassed situation, and I didn’t aware the seriousness until Alan called me later after the meeting.

I wrote a draw for this event, cause I thought it was an important thing to me. 9 pages! I figued out all the details first in mind and then I noted them down. And practiced before the meeting for about 5 times with counting minutes.  One time in front of mirror! But I should do that more! I totally agree with what  Alex commented to me. Practice with your passion in front of mirror, and just suppose you were at the stage. Vocal variety and natural guetures  should let your audience influenced which is from Simba’s suggestion to me.

So, so, so…… Preparation is not enough no matter how much time and energy you put onto it!

Emergencies occur all the time. I did prepare some words and phrases for the changes in the meeting. There are something you can not prepare, that are called experience and knowledge. Experience and knowledge are life long term accumulation. They are the background of your eduation. Well-eduated or not, your experience tells, as well as your knowledge. The experience checks whether your knowledge is practicle or not, while the knowledge leads you to gain more experience.

I know I am lack of experience and I has a little knowledge. For me, it’s a long way to go to be well educated!

My deep-heart thanks to Alan can’t express my feeling. So I worte this essay.

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