Meeting #593

gold medal match-maker

DateTuesday, 17 October 2017
Word of the dayhot

SZTM's 593rd meeting fell on 17 October 2017, the eve of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and drew eighteen members and one guest on an unusually hot evening, so the warm-up session was skipped. Table topics master Scarlett He had volunteers play matchmaker, pairing off members and guests to introduce to the room. New member Terry Mathebula, from South Africa, won the night's top prepared speech with his ice breaker 'Be Great', and president Eva Chen held a birthday party for members born in October.

593rd Meeting

The club posted its own write-up that week. Some of what it said, in the words it used:

Koby introduced Sharon Wu, Michael Liu vs Sunny Wang(Mentor introduced Mentee), Allen Peng vs Eva Chen, Wilson Li vs Elly Zheng, Eva Chen vs Eddie Peng(really? Pictures, of course!)

Oct 17th

Do you convince yourself of your English competence? Then try to read loud the following tongue twisters as rapidly and clearly as possible:

1) Can you can a can as a canner can a can?

2) I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-creams.

3) Betty beat a bit of butter to make a better batter.

4) Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be not, we’ll weather the weather whether we like it or not.

At the eve of the opening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our club’s regular meeting was coming on 17th October, 2017 as usual. Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind. As a perseverant member, let me try to review the routine meeting which its theme was ‘gold medal match-maker’ and the hot word of that day was ‘hot’ although there wereonly eighteen members and only one guest showing up.

Because of this year’s unprecedented hot summer we straightforwardly omitted the warm-up session that night. Our fresh but humorousmember Nathan Zhang hosted the meeting as the TME. Elly Zheng was the Sergeant At Arms (SAA). As the queen of overusing time at last meeting, Sharon Wu was the timer at this meeting. Sunny Tan was the ah-counter and Wilson Li was the grammarian respectively.

Facilitators

Table Topic

Have you ever experienced as a match-maker? Our amazing and charming Scarlett He was the table topic toastmaster. Pretending to be as gold medal match-makers, every volunteer were required to select one single dog and introduce her/him to all other friends in the meeting. Koby introduced Sharon Wu, Michael Liu vs Sunny Wang(Mentor introduced Mentee), Allen Peng vs Eva Chen, Wilson Li vs Elly Zheng, Eva Chen vs Eddie Peng(really? Pictures, of course!), Sunny Wang vs Michael Liu (Mentee introduced Mentor, vice versa), Elly Zheng vs Carol Ban, Sandy Zhang vs Nathan Zhang (match-maker and lover?), guest ErnestZhao introduced himself, Nathan Zhang vs Sandy Zhang (vice versa, match-maker and lover again?) Can you image that the meeting room had been full of happy laughter and cheerful voicesfrom soup to nuts?

Prepared Speech

Afterwards Terry Mathebula, our fresh member from the Republic of South Africa, delivered hisCC1prepared speech entitled ‘Be Great’, and won the first place of that night’s prepared speeches. Eva Chen delivered her CC9 entitled‘One More Step’, and Sunny Wang her CC9 entitled‘Why VPM?’ Danielle Ouyang her Adv. 9.5 speech entitled ‘Say “No” with Power’

In the intermission of the meeting, our president Eva Chen held a birthday party for those members who born in October. Every member and every guest enjoyed the tasteful birthday cake and delicious fruit to the top of one’s bent.

Evaluation

As evaluators, Samantha Shen, Allen Peng, KobySa, David King, Michael Liu and Carol Ban respectively gave thetable topic evaluation, individual evaluations and general evaluation. Excellent comments!

Guest Sharing Time

Warmly welcome our guest Ernest Zhao.

Congratulations to our Award Winners

593rd Meeting

About SZTM Club

1

What?

The best place for training a public speaker and a strong leader

2

When?
19:15-21:30
Every Tuesday

3 Where?

6thFloor, XinhuaBuiding
兴华大厦 A 座 6B

4 How?附近交通公交站点

兴华宾馆西
兴华宾馆东
地铁
燕南地铁站 A
科学馆地铁站 B 出口

5

More?

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Speeches
Be Great
Terry Mathebula · CC1
One More Step
Eva Chen · CC9
Why VPM?
Sunny Wang · CC9
Say "No" with Power
Danielle Ouyang · Adv. 9.5
Awards that evening
当晚最佳演讲第一名Terry Mathebula
Who ran the meeting
TMENathan Zhang
SAAElly Zheng
TimerSharon Wu
Ah-counterSunny Tan
GrammarianWilson Li
Table Topics MasterScarlett He
Table Topics EvaluatorSamantha Shen
EvaluatorAllen Peng
EvaluatorKoby Sa
EvaluatorDavid King
EvaluatorMichael Liu
General EvaluatorCarol Ban
Posted at the time

Recovered from the club's WeChat account. Original.