Please note that our regular meetings on Tuesday, 17th and 24th January 2012 will be canceled since many of our members will be gone back home for Chinese New Year. Our first meeting after Chinese New Year will be on Tuesday, 31st January 2012. Please sign up for roles in our future meeting on our online assignment sheet or contact Jenny (13951083541) or Katie (13770924280) directly. Thank you!

Please note that our regular meeting on Tuesday, 3rd January 2012, will be canceled due to public holidays in China.

When was the last opportunity that you don’t need to travel to another location in order to see members of other clubs performing on the stage? So don’t hesitate and come join us supporting our contestants in competing against all other clubs in Jiangsu!

Time:
13:00 – 17:00, Saturday, 15th October 2011

What to expect:
The best of the best contestants from all Toastmasters Clubs in the Division Q (Jiangsu province + Hefei) competing in the categories
1) English Humorous Speech Contest
2) Mandarin Humorous Speech Contest
3) English Evaluation Contest

Venue:
Room 506, Building2, Junlin Guoji, No.5 Guangzhou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing (Zhujiang Road Metro Station, Metro Line 1, Exit 1)
南京市鼓楼区广州路5号，君临国际2栋 506， 启凡教育（地铁一号线珠江路一号出口下车）

Please note that no meeting will be held during the National Holidays next week from 3rd to 7th October 2011 and that our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 11th October 2011.

It is really true, our Fall 2011 Division Level Speech Contest will be held in NANJING on Saturday, 15th October 2011!!!

Opportunities are rare that we don’t need to travel to other contest locations. So don’t hesitate and come join us supporting our contestants in competing against all other clubs in Jiangsu!

It was a weekend full of events. On the Saturday before (24th September 2011), five contestants participated to the Area Speech Contest in Hefei. And the day after, they are on stage again – but on the KTV stage!

After a long summer break, we have organized another club event. Members first met for KTV marathon (6 hours!), afterwards, they had dinner in an authentic Yunnan restaurant also with members of 2 other Nanjing Toastmasters Clubs. The president of the HROP TMC and the Alcatel-Lucent TMC both joined the dinner.

Have a look yourselves to see how much fun we had during the KTV session and the dinner! Missed this event? No problems, we will keep you updated about the next upcoming event.

On Saturday, 24th September 2011, our Fall Area Speech Contest 2011 took place in Hefei.

In total, four of our club members participated to this contest. And with much success since all four of them were amongst the winners of all three contest categories! Please join us congratulating the following winners of the contest:

English Humorous Contest:
Eric Zhao – 2nd Place
Helen Reumann – 3rd Place

Mandarin Humorous Contest:
Katie Zhang – 2nd Place
Jenny Li – 3rd Place

English Evaluation Contest:
Katie Zhang – 2nd Place

Eric and Katie will move further to the Division Level Contest, which will be held in Nanjing on 15th October 2011! Don’t miss this rare opportunity not to travel to other contest locations and join us supporting them in competing against all other clubs in Jiangsu then!

Two evenings of excitement on 6th and 13th September were over, and the winners are determined. Please join us congratulating the winners of our club speech contest of Fall 2011:

English Humorous Speech Contest:
1st: Eric Zhao
2nd: Katie Zhang
3rd: Helen Reumann

Mandarin Humorous Speech Contest:
1st: 张丹丹 (Katie Zhang)
2nd: 李莺莺 (Jenny Li)
3rd：李媛佳 (Maggie Li)

English Evaluation Contest:
1st: Katie Zhang
2nd: Erik van den Molen
3rd: Jenny Li

From each contest, the first two winners will move on to the area level contest (24th September, please refer to separate post) to represent our club. They have our full support and hopefully, some of them could even go one level further to the division contest, which will be hosted in Nanjing.

Great news for our club – within the Distinguished Club Program of Toastmasters International, our club has earned the “Distinguished Club Award” for the year 2010/2011!

This is a recognition program of Toastmasters International to encourage toastmasters clubs of all over the world to actively follow the toastmasters mission. May it be to have members achieving their goals of becoming competent communicators or competent leaders, or in gaining new members, or having officers participating in club officer meetings etc.

As a recognition of achieving the “Distinguished Club Award”, we will receive an award ribbon, which will be attached to our club banner to demonstrate our club success.

Thank you very much to all of you members to make this happen! Let’s work together to continue this success and commitment to excellence also this year.

After several days of raining, we finally had a sunny day on June 26th!! That’s the day of the largest joint meeting of the Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters Club with a subsequent barbecue event. The joint meeting was held together with the Shanghai 5A+ Toastmasters club and the Nanjing Alcatel Lucent Smart Speakers Toastmasters Club. Want to see the pictures, please have a look into our gallery!

The whole meeting was amazing. The qualities of all speeches were beyond imagination, which were full of humor and wisdom. The evaluation and suggestions given were sincere and effective. However, the highlight of the meeting was certainly the game section! Mugs with the Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters Club logo (as the host club) have been ordered to serve as prizes. Everyone really tried their best to get the logo mug. If you could have been there, you would likely also have been infected by the harmonious and happy emotions.

The meeting was a wonderful communication platform, not only through the major aspects of providing high quality speeches and evaluations, but also through the small details such as the newly designed badges to acknowledge all role-takers.

After the hard work, it was time to relax! All club members moved on to have a joint barbecue at Gulin Park in Nanjing, which was as wonderful as the meeting in the morning. Not only the ladies, we were surprised by our male members’ cooking skills as well! We shared our food together and could taste the different cooking and marinating style of everyone!

Overall, it was a successful meeting and an afternoon with delicious meal. Come and join us next time and make your own experience!