| MEETING MINUTES JAN18, 2012 |
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Written by Coco Theme of the Meeting: Young as Spring We were just a few days away from Spring Festival holiday. While we were busy packing for our big family reunion of the year, Chicers still gathered on the regular meeting day to hold the last meeting of Chinese lunar year 2011. January 18th meeting of CHIC Toastmasters features the efforts by officers and support by role-takers and members. Hubert was highly conscious of Chinese Spring Festival. The opening by him was still warmed up by greetings between participants, after which we found most members and guests prefer the festival regards 恭喜发财 better. Gale, our tireless VPE, today brought us a new resolution again, to speak English no matter during the meeting or the break. That's really a good appeal. He was loving person as usual too. As Vivian was leaving us for PhD study in Britain for at least one year. He lighted a small beautiful candle and recited a poem written by him to Vivian. It's really a wonder a person can be so relentless in both striving for improvement and caring for others. Tim dressed still very handsome for the meeting, but the color was a little different, purple (kind of), which our TTE Xiuhua kindly reminded is perhaps the gay color in certain countries. Yet, seems Tim is going to have his honeymoon next year, so...haha. Ninan, long time no see. You've really done a good speech, especially considering this is your ice breaker speech and you just got your topic one day before the meeting. You were not shy at all on the stage. TTM Lorraine arrived at the meeting venue just on time. Still, it's a happy surprise to see her at the back of the classroom, smiling very confidently, ready to go on the stage and announce her very tricky topics. This time, Lorraine, you succeeded in dragging all the table topic speakers into your scenario. All of them were so obsessed with thinking hard and weaving those little funny stories in the forest. We were enjoying the moment when people got cute and lovely by trying that hard. We probably thought Lorraine created a difficult situation for Xiuhua to evaluate the session. For the topics for most of the time were kept as secrets from the audience. Still Xiuhua did a wonderful job. She won the Best Evaluator. (Aurally I thought she should be the most powerful woman at this meeting.) The last meeting of Chinese lunar year 2011, we still kept our meeting very uniquely CHIC. Joke-master was here done by Jon. He really worked very sincerely for this special Chic role, by collecting all funny and shining points during the meeting and frequently using them in his unique personal story. He even got underwear as his prop. What a thought. After the meeting, we had a very exclusive picture with elegant, beautiful Vivian Xu. Some officers were already planning for the work after the holiday (and we especially recommend you to attend Toastmasters Spring Conference in Hangzhou), but after all, let’s get relaxed and enjoy our new year holiday first. 各位，预祝新年快乐啦！
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