The Monkey Kings 美猴王

Suzhou Web Toastmasters held its demo meeting on Saturday. Over forty people attended. Many people held formal roles like evaluator and timer, others gave speeches and everyone seemed enthusiastic about being a Toastmaster. Our meeting was a bigger success than I expected. Our volunteers did a great job and so did the speakers. If this is what we can expect from the club, we will be really successful.

So far, we need more people volunteering for this week’s meeting, including for giving speeches. The club, so far at least, is based entirely at Web English school, so all we need to do is ask our students and teachers if they would like to do anything at the next meeting.

And since it is at an English school, I would like to put extra emphasis on English learning. That would mean giving the grammarian (the person who helps us improve our English at each meeting) extra time to learn more things, and lowering the bar for membership to those who might not have very good English but are still anxious to be Toastmasters. I’m really looking forward to seeing what can happen in the months to come.