As our members grow, we need a bigger meeting venue, which is now even more convenient to reach by public transport. Please note that from the meeting of 14th June 2011 onwards, we will be holding our meeting in our following new location:

Room 1507, Wuxing Nianhua Building, No. 139 Hanzhong Road (Exit No. 1, Shanghai Road Metro Station, Metro Line 2)
汉中路139号五星年华大厦1507, 地铁2号线上海路站1号出站

Our excellent members Jerel Bonner, Katie Zhang and Leinie Zhang represented our Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters Club to fight for the Division-level awards in Division L Speech Contest on April 23rd 2011 in Shanghai. Although Jerel actually won the 2. Place of the International Speech Contest. But according to the contest rules, they all cannot proceed further for the District Contest.

In any case, you certainly all agree with me that they are all winners already indeed passing our club contest and the area contest, right? So please do join me giving them another applause over the web!

If you are interested in some comments on the Division Contest, please have a look to our Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters’ Blog.

On March 20th, the International Speech as well as the Mandarin Speech and Table Topic Contest 2011 of Area L3, District 85 Toastmasters International took place in Wuxi. Nearly 20 contestants from 8 clubs around Jiangsu Province have attended Area L3 Speech Contest.

Due to thorough preparation and excellent performance, the winners of our Nanjing No.1 Toastmasters Club have overwhelmed all the audience and judges, and won TWO “First Place” and ONE “Second Place”. Here come the winners:

1) International Speech Contest: 1st Prize – Jerel Bonner
2) Mandarin Speech Contest: 1st Prize – Katie Zhang
3) Table Topic Speech Contest: 2nd Prize – Leinie Zhang

Congratulations to our winners and good luck to them for the Division L Speech Contest in Shanghai in April 2011!

Katie, our current Education Vice President (EVP), has just finished her 10th speech with the title “More proactive, better life!” on 15th March 2011, and therefore become another Competent Communicator (CC) of our club – the 4th CC of Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters Club!

Katie has always been our role model both in terms of making speeches and in terms of her contributions to our club. Before she became our Education Vice President, she had already been active as the assistant to Vice President Public Relations. In her speeches, she is always very concentrated, takes care of her eye contact, body languages and audience involvement. We can all learn a lot from her performance.

Please join us congratulating Katie for achieving her Competent Communicator!

We hold our meetings every Tuesday from 7:15 PM to 8:45 PM at Wuxing Nianhua Building 五星年华大厦 nearby the Shanghai Road Metro Station Exit 1. Guests are more than welcome to join our meeting. Want to know more about toastmasters? Just explore our website or send us an e-mail.

Also feel free to check out our upcoming meeting agenda, one of our meeting reviews (please click on the left hand side for the most recent meeting review), or videos of our speeches and toastmasters events.

We have new club officers starting 2011: Check them out on Our Club -> Club Officers!

Dear Toastmasters,

District 85 Fall Conference will be held from Oct 22th to 24th, 2010 in Beijing. Are you getting prepared to come to Beijing, to attend this grand event, which happens only twice a year?
If you can’t make it to this conference, don’t worry! District PR Committee is going to provide you with a solution to watch the event?

During the conference, we will have Live report of District 85 Fall Conference on Sina Mini Blog. Address: http://t.sina.com.cn/1830938207 Name: District85

PR Chair (North) Kathleen Gao will be our Sina Mini Blog reporter to bring us the most recent news, pictures, and results of the conference. If you have any comments on first-ever live report on Sina Mini Blog, do let Kathleen and I know and we welcome you to join the reporter team.

Pls feel free to forward to your members and guests of the news or announce during the meeting. Let’s meet in Beijing or Sina Mini Blog on Oct 22 to Oct 24, 2010 to witness the grand conference.

(**Note: you need an account to access Sina Miniblogpost. So please sign up withhttp://t.sina.com.cn/ first.)

Tina has become our third member to finish all 10 speeches from the Toastmaster’s competent communicator manual, and earn the title “Competent Communicator”, Congratulations Tina!

Meanwhile as the EVP of our club, Tina helps our members focus on their goals and makes sure that the meetings take place as scheduled and that we have Toastmasters for every meeting.

Click here to see Tina’s 10th speech:

Area Speech Contest

Area L3, Division L, District 85, Toastmasters International

There will be  English humorous speech contest (7 contestants), Mandarin Humorous speech contest (4 contestants), Evaluation contest (6 contestants) competing for the chance to go to Beijing this October participating in the National speech contests!!!

We warmly welcome all toastmasters and guests to come to support the contestants, to witness the birth of winners, and most important, to experience how to improve public speaking skill in a short time.

Time:      1:00 pm – 4:45 pm      Date:      Sunday 19^th of September 2010

Venue:   Multifunctional Hall, 5^th Floor, 1 Hunan Road, Phoenix International Book Mall, Nanjing

Directions from train station to contest location

Metro Line 1, Xuan Wu Men Station;

Bus: 74, 100, 151, 52, 813, 816, 34, 83, 31, 95, 303, 3, 819, 318, 8, 22, 114, 26, 47, 56, 16, 168, 67, etc.

For any inquiries, please contact infor@nanjingtoastmasters.com or call me at 13770924280

Katie Zhang

Assistant VPPR, Nanjing No1 Toastmasters Club