Dear friends.
Today, we met Mr. Chaos.  Whatever could have gone wrong did go wrong.  All the SAA items (timer tools, evaluation kits, ribbons, camera stand) were all trapped in my car's trunk, and my car was trapped in a 4S shop.  Add to that, the introduction of one of the major change in our meeting--the team evaluation session--which was complicated by the silly president who first gave confusing and useless directions.   But then came the team to save the day!  Timer Luca improvised with creative, but barely noticeable timer cards, and controlled the entire meeting's timing to make up for the time-consuming and useless direction from the president.  And came Molly, who made the instructions much clearer for the audience to lead us into the evaluation team.  
I want to congratulate Molly for being our TM for the very first time.  Finally putting your talents and skills to work!  Now I remember why I insisted on you joining CHIC as one of the founding member.  Took you 9 long months to fulfill your promises.  I guess we can blame it on your bad eye-sight.  Congratulations to Gale for taking the first official role at our club.  Continue to prepare your every role to be best of your abilities.  Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.  Of course, congratulations to our ice-breakers, Charlie and Iris.  It only took you a few meetings to have Jonah's sense of humor rub off on you.  One is a pure woman, the other is a pure fitter man. 
I know the evaluation session didn't go smoothly.  I didn't expect the first shot to be perfect.  But I thoroughly enjoyed the lively discussion within each team.  In my team, we had the guests to contribute their feelings about the speeches.  And the more senior members were able to add onto the insights and coach the less experienced members.  It was truly a team effort that engaged everyone--including Vicky :).   I believe this is a terrific value for all the members of the audience.  For those of you who didn't come tonight, don't miss out again.  We will hold this format for the month of September. 
In last week's reflection, I was a bit intense and serious.  I'm a bit moody nowadays.  I have hormonal imbalance in addition to my mad-cow.  But today, I'm in a better mood.  Even after receiving the Junior Achievement newsletter in my email box--some of you know what I'm talking about.  If you don't, I'll forward it to you one day.  All in all, a successful roller coaster ride tonight.  See you next week.
Hubert

President of CHIC Toastmasters Club Beijing