Last week was a busy week. We went out almost every night to join in the Toastmaster, a kind of club helping members to improve the skills for public speaking. To be honest, they do surprise me by their highly-organized structure. Normally it will last for 1.5 to 2 hours and the schedule is well-prepared, including “Word of the day”, “Toast”, speeches given by members, evaluation - which is a very good part giving the lecturers ideas about how to improve, and the most interesting and challenging part - Table topic - you’ll be given a specific situation and required to response to it. That’s really fun.

I don’t know whether it’s useful or helpful, but everyclub member said they learn a lot from it.

Every year there will be an international speech contest held by the entire toastmaster clubs around the world. Members having given more than 6 speeches are eligible for the contest. Besides, they also have evaluation contest which I found more impressive. The selected speecher, who normally belongs to another toastmaster club, will give a prepared speech. The competitors can make notes and each of them will have 1'30 for preparation. And the individual who win the first prize will represent the club and join in the next competion.

One of the members tell us, the winner has a long way to go because the contest will be held by area, district, region and internally. Anyway, it's a fun.

由于我们不了解它具体是怎么运作的，所以我们去了几个不同的Toastmaster，想找到一个比较喜欢，大小规模比较合适，价格也比较适中的club，不幸的是，目前为止我们还在寻找中。其实Toastmaster的会费并不高，但是场地的租赁费用很昂贵，虽然每次我们仅使用2个小时左右。所以，我们期望可以找到更合适的地方。

PS：今天中午在办公室热饭的时候，一位Mrs过来称赞我们的饭很香，很好吃的样子，听了真的觉得很开心，有点小小的成就感。

         这两天工作很不顺利，file很痛苦，处理起来也不顺手，因此效率也很低，希望明天会好起来。

        今天看了一位朋友的留言，很佩服她，也很为她的开心感到开心。希望我们可以一起加油，成功！