2006/8/15 Amanda's A5 Speech

My Observations in ALE MAX

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(OPEN)
Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to~ Do you know whose birthday I’m celebrating to? Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! I’m celebrating to the Birthday of ALE MAX! The Youth Rule says, “Constancy is the foundation of success!” For the past three years, I spent each evening time on the first and third Tuesday per month with ALE MAX members. I join each regular meeting! Wow, how big this achievement is! And what did I get from this persistence? Seventy-four free dinner! Plus Seventy-four public speaking chances! And seventy-four times of observations!

(Body)

I’m a curious person. I hope I don’t have any contribution to sexual harassment. Actually because of my curiosity, I like to observe persons and things happening around me and of course in ALE MAX meeting! I got lots fun from doing that! So tonight I am going to share with you about my observations in ALE MAX!

1. First of all, always take care of the time for food offering. Someone says, “The way to a member’s heart is through his stomach!” Offering delicious food is one of our specialties, but not everyone can really feed their stomach! Remember! The first ten minutes after food serving is the golden time. Most of the food will disappear at that time! So timer has told you time in Toastmasters meeting is really important! However, speakers always cannot really enjoy the food because of nervousness. So if you prefer to kill two birds with one stone, I mean to also lose weight here, please write down the following information! She will arrange you as many assignments as she can. As you know, I just had only two speeches in the past one year. And see! My fat!

2. Keep good relationship with the members! Or they’ll not laugh while your jokes are not so entertaining. Especially if you choose the manual, the entertaining speaker, like me. If you’re not good at making friends, at least you have to make friend with Jonathan. But why? According to my observation, he is always the first one to laugh loudly while everyone telling jokes. See~ Hoo~ Now I have more confidence! But if it’s even too late to make friend with Jonathan. Use money! See~ it works! If it still cannot work, add the magic words after your sentence. Yah! It really works! Ah Huh~

3. Pretend busy during Table Topic session! We all know the table topic session is a good chance for you to practice thinking with your feet! But sometimes your feet cannot work very well, and what can you do? Pretend you’re busy! If you’re evaluators, GE or language evaluator, keep writing even you have finished your report! If you usually have no assignment during the meeting, I’m sorry! Try your best to maintain your feet in good condition! However, is there any exception? I think Jonathan will say, “YES” because no matter he has assignment or not, He is usually the popular candidates in Table Topic Session! Sorry, Jonathan, I don’t know how to give you a good explanation. But Father of ROC said, “Serve is the goal of life!” The Father of ALE MAX Toastmasters Club always needs to contribute more to the club! How lucky we are!

(CONCLUSION)

Ladies and gentlemen, the birth day of ALE MAX is August 6. Are you also the one who has stayed with ALE MAX for three years or you just join ALE MAX for several months? Are you the one who feel like nothing to do during the meeting? I never have this kind of feeling because I do my observing all the time! Except to the interesting things I just said, I enjoy the feeling to see the growth of others. So I’m always satisfied after the meeting because I learn a lot at the meeting and feel honor to be one of ALE MAX! Ladies and gentlemen, as you know I’ll not be here after the second meeting on September because of my study. So please help me to keep this observation and keep your self-growth for me! I’ll be back soon to celebrate another birthday of ALE MAX! Happy Birthday to ALE MAX~ Toastmasters!

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2006/08/01 Language Evaluator's Report

Dear All, Thank God that we all survive the heat wave. Pls see the following to speak more impeccable English. Say: The thief broke into our house. Don't say: The thief run into our house. Say: I misplaced my key. Don't say: I put my key somewhere and can't find it. Say: The house was burgalized. Don't say: The house was robbed. There are some idioms to desdribe when a person dies. Eg: Kick the bucket, six feet under. When someone is dying, we can also say he's on deathbed. Jane, our good mother, used quite a few good expressions in her speech. Here are two of them. 1) I go extra miles to trake care of my kids. 2) The generation gap is creeping into our family. Finally, special thanks to the generosity of Maxwell, Keny, Amanda, Celine, Wade, Julia, Julie who patronized my suff, so that we raised NT1380 last night. The proceeds will go to our CTM fund. That means our future CTM will be able to get NT300 gift certificate. You know what they say: You reap what you sow. Peace & Love, Mayna

2006/08/01 Jane's C9 Speach

Don’t be controlled by anger

(Opening)

“Jane is a good mother!” You may have heard session masters introduce me this way. But I have a confession to make. I am a frustrated mother. I’ve always had terrible problems with my sons. I go the extra mile to help them to get rid of their bad habits and hope they put their heart into their studies.

I take responsibility for everything big and small on a daily basis. For example, in this morning, my son called out for help. “Mom, where is my uniform? I can’t find it anywhere. Can you help me?” So I put my chores aside and looked for the uniform. Even worse, sometimes their teachers complain to me how badly they behave in school. They don’t summit the homework or distract others in the class. It takes my breath away. But I can’t quit my responsibility.

Gradually, I find myself nagging a lot and losing my temper easily. I feel the generation gap is creeping into my family. One day when I saw my son made the room messy, one sock here and another there, I got angry again and blamed him. While I was yelling at him in front of the mirror, I saw myself; a grumpy face in the mirror. Then I looked at my son, he was scared and his head drooped. I think my anger might affect his character. I have to change my ways.

(Body)

Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems at work, in your personal relationships, and in the overall quality of your life.

Have you ever lost your temper? How do you feel? When you get angry, your heart rate and blood pressure go up, as do the levels of your energy hormones and adrenaline. A raging person usually doesn ’t listen to any explanations or advice, they are out of control and seem like volcano erupting. And often things happen that trigger their anger, and these things make them regretful all their lives. So we need to control our anger before it controls us.

However, knowing how to recognize and express anger appropriately can help us to reach goals. What makes you angry? It is best to find out what it is that triggers your anger, and then to develop strategies to keep those triggers from sending you over the edge. I have figured out how to make my sons listen to me. I set up of rules for them, if they can reach it, they will get more allowance. I made contract with them.

Are you too angry? What can you do when you feel angry? Try to divert your thoughts. For my experience, instead of telling myself, “oh, it’s awful, it’s terrible, I’m going to blow up.” I tell myself, “it’s frustrating, I’m upset about it, but it’s not the end of the world and getting angry is not going to fix it anyhow.” That way can help me get a more balanced perspective and cool down.

Give yourself a break. Make sure you have some “ personal time” scheduled for times of the day that you know are particularly stressful. If your life is full of stress, dissatisfaction can easily pile up until one day the dam bursts. So find something you enjoy and do it on a regular basis. Schedule it in! For me, I like gardening, so I feel peaceful when I water the flowers and trim the branches.

(Conclusion)

Since I started to learn to control my anger, my relationship with my sons is getting better and the generation gap is being bridged. We enjoy having small talks and they are thoughtful to share in housework. I just did a little change but benefited a lot. I am a happy mother now.

2006/7/16 Wade's C9 Speach

Who steal my sleep?

Yawn. Oooo. Wade, what did you do last night? Oh, I am sorry; last night I overwork until ten thirty, and I drift myself home, take a bath, rush to do a report for tomorrow, and rehearsal my c9 speech...and

Yawn is one of kind signs out of my body to notice me, not notice my friends, that Hi man, I am tired. I need to take a rest. Don't burn me out.

Every day before I go to work, I need to drive my daughter to 萬丹 for my parents in law to take care of her. It is only 30 minutes driving time; however, sometimes it is extremely dangerous time. My eyelids are getting heavy to close my eye; music in the radio is whispering to me. Strong coffee is like water. I am getting out of mind. I am driving, out of lane. And I awake to return my lane for seconds. Then I am driving, out of my lane; and I awake to return. Every day I stand in the cliff with my daughter. Feeling sleepy is dangerous sign out of my body to notice me, Hi man, I am tired. I need take more rest.

A teenager stayed at internet caf'e shop more than 54 hours, and he pass away.

A very hardworking student stay up all day night preparing for examination; He finished this big examination. And at the same day he finished his life after playing baseball with friends. There is no dangerous sign out of their body to notice. Because.

You know in Taiwan, there is more than three hundred thousand teenagers surfing the internet and the cyber game in the cyber cofe day and night.

Who steal my sleep? Who snatch our sleeping time? After busy working day until at ten in the evening we know we are supposed to have sweet dream, take a long break with our body, why we not yet go to bed? We prefer drinking big glass of strong flavor tea, coffee, or something to try to hold on our lasting awake instead of lying on the comfortable bed.

Watching 24-hours TV, surfing internet, overscheduled work not yet finished, preparing for report or test, talking with friends.. There is quite a few answers.

We don't value the sleeping time. We know sleeping is important. But we don't know that sleeping is the most important of our life. We are not as young as we thought; we are not as strong as we expected without enough sleeping.

Dear members, if you figure out that you feel sleepy or very tired the following day. Or still keep doing the same thing and not yet finished. Not able to write down your name fluently. Constantly nodding when your boss or teacher are staring at you. Your field of view is as thin as a line. Stop stealing and squeezing any second of your sleeping time.

2007/7/4 Darlene's C6 Speech

Watch Out! the Sexual Harrasser is by Your Side

(OPEN)

It is not easy to be a woman. When we face the robbery, we are worried about they will rob our wallet, and at the same time, we still have to worry that they will rob our beauty. Just like me, a woman with beauty and wisdom in one, these fears bother me a lot. Don’t laugh, because from now on, I will tell you two events that truly happen to me.

(Body)

As I remembered, the first sexual harassment happened when I was a third grade elementary school student. One day, one of my classmates and I were playing ‘Chai-Chai-Choe’, then a water electrician came toward us and said “Cute girls, there were two water taps broken and I have to fix it, could you helped me?”. At that time, we just thought of what teacher taught-Help is the joyful foundation, so we said yes and follow the water electrician to the washbasin. When we arrived there, two water taps were spraying all over the place, so he told us to hold the tap tightly and don’ t let the water come out. We did not hold the tap tightly, and then he started stand behind my classmate and used his big hands to hold my classmate hands and said “ You are not holding tight enough, if the water keep spraying out, then I can’t fix it”. I felt strange so when he came to me, I hold it very tight and not let him had the chance to hold my hands. He just kept holding our hands and did nothing about fix the taps, then the bell rang, I grabbed my classmate’s hand quickly and ran away from him. Because I notice that something down there was growing big, so I think he is not a real water electrician.

Second time happened when I was studied in St. Dowming Senior high school. In that period of time, girl’s boobs grew, especially some girls they were well developed. This would attract the high school boys. I remembered one day when I was riding my bike home, there was a high school boy rode his bike quickly passed by my side. But do you know when he passed by me, his hand was touching my boobs and grab them? It happened so fast that I couldn’t react immediately. I even didn’t shout out at that time, so I just let him disappeared in front of my eyes. Now, you know how difficult to be a woman. Female has many parts, such as boobs, butt, and even our ponytail can attract sexual harasser. Therefore, you have to watch out, they might come to you.

(Conclusion)

According to my experiences, I will point out three main points you have to pay attention. First, when you face the sexual harasser, you have to shout out with long and loud voice like “Fire alarm” to replace “Save my life” because fire alarm could attract more people. Second, use your high heel shoes or anti-spray to attack him. Third, leave that place as soon as possible. If you can cool down and not scare to fight with the sexual harasser, and you can let other people know you are having sexual harassment at the first time, I believe even you can’t stop it happens, but you can protect yourself. So be brave then you can face it without fears.