| Meeting Minutes Feb01 2012 |
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Written by Coco Theme of the Meeting: ROOTS
Our first meeting after the big Chinese New Year festival holiday was really very light-hearted. Like our former VPE Joyce, in her fresh red coat, said during the greeting session, most of us had spent the whole holiday eating and sleeping. Many of you may still be recovering from the after holiday symptoms. We Chicers felt lazy and soft as you in the first working week after holiday, but I believe many of us at the meeting (me a good example) felt reenergized after the meeting. Tim was the role-model of February 1 meeting of Chic Toastmasters. He dressed handsome as usual. Yet this time, he was especially responsible, and made extra efforts to perform the role as the Toastmaster. He spoke to the guests voluntarily, asked the role-takers about their hometowns before the meeting and made the introduction of role-takers very personal and closely related to the theme. His body language also was more influential. Our president Hubert was not at the meeting. Always-passionate-Gale was the ready backup, to open the meeting and arrange an extra and quite unique prepared speech and this had made the meeting very special, funny and educational. What’s more, Gale didn't lose any chances to show his care about others. This time, he asked Liu Xia to take the challenge to evaluate the very special prepared speech by TI's 1995 World Champion, David Nottage's speech, Get up. What a brave girl, Liu Xia. You are very relaxed and confident when evaluating the world champion. Holiday seemed a good time of reflection. Two prepared speeches, Yi's Let this Journey Never Ends and Dancy's How to Keep Positive, were both very thought-provoking. Yi's narration of her life was plain in language and delivery, like heart-to-heart talk between two friends, but we still could feel her way of striving for a better life and self-improvement. Dancy tried something new, on the other hand – a box of chocolate, to introduce the topic. With this, the audience couldn't refuse to come out of Yi’s journey and be attracted to a new personality, sweet and gently enthusiastic Dancy. Congratulations to Dancy on another Best Prepared Speaker award! Funniest part is the table topic session, when Lorraine volunteered to come to the stage. She was aggressive. Instead of choosing a number herself, she asked Coco to choose one for her. So interaction between these two people carried on, until those words came out of Lorraine's mouth, "OK, suppose you are my husband" "I will not divorce you, I love you." Pity on Lorraine, the most difficult question. A woman in a foreign country married to a foreigner, who can't communicate with anyone around her because of language... Surprise is the miserable story Coco came up with became funny and interesting when dealt with by Lorraine. Finally, the happy ending - Coco, supported by a devoted and confident woman, “his” fictional wife Lorraine, won the Best Humor award!
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