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Black history heroes, breadcrumb maker  October  Black History Month. Black history month is celebrated by the museum of inventions in the USA by the story of the man who invented the breadcrumb machine. 1 International Day of Older Persons. Children's Day? Birthday of Henry Clay Work who wrote My Grandfather's Clock. 2 International day of non violence. Birthday of Gandhi. World Statistics Day. 3 World Temperance Day. Death of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind: quotation Tomorrow is another Day. 4 Animal Day. Habitat Day. Space week (4th to 10th). 5 Unesco world Teachers' Day. 6 UK National poetry day. National noodle day. 7 World Cotton Day. (World Space Week from 4th to 10th.) 8 International Podiatry (foot health) day 9 World Post Day. 10 World mental health day. 11 Birthday of Eleanor Roosevelt who said, Nobody can ever make you feel inferior without your permission. 12 Columbus Day. Spanish national holiday. 13 UN Day for Natural Disaster Reduction. 14 W...

 2021 JULY - JUBILANT JULY Theme/WOD Jubilant WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS (based on level one of Pathways) 1 Your first speech or role EASY ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Articles A and The, Plurals, Tenses, Pronunciation, Singlish) 2 CHOOSE YOUR PATH Wed July 7th  Saturday 17th July 4th American Independence Day. 2021 AUGUST - AWESOME AUGUST 1 Pathway Level 1 Introductory Speeches 2 Evaluations Wed 4th Sat 21 2021 SEPT - SUPER SEPTEMBER Wed 1st Sat 18th  SPEECH CONTESTS (See previous post.) 2021 OCT - ODD OCTOBER - Oh October - Occidental October - Only in October Wed 6th Sat 16th  Humorous Speech Contest Table Topics Contest Evaluation Contest 2021 NOV - NOVELTY NOVEMBER Wed 3rd Sat 20th  Wed Diwali Hindu Festival of lights Nov 4th. Nov 25th American Thanksgiving. Hanukah starts 28 Dec 8 days until Dec 6. Jewish Festival of lights, celebrated by Jesus. 2021 DEC - DARLING DECEMBER - Delightful December - Winter Festivals Wed  1st (Hanukah if not previous month...

 Our meetings in September are: As usual on the third Saturday afternoon of the month Saturday 18th September 2012 Afternoon login 1.45 pm for the 2-4 pm meeting. Singapore time. (The UK is 7 hours behind on British Summer Time, BST. Back to GMT after the end of October.) Two workshops: William Lim, DTM. Do we need humour in presentations? Alicia Chia DTM. Vocal variety. Alicia Chia Extra meeting before the October contests (International Speech. Table topics (impromptu). Evaluation:  Tuesday. A workshop on acting for non actors. To prepare us for the contest so we can be more animated. We are being trained by a film director from outside Toastmasters. Nazrim. Arranged by our President Yenny Sadeli. DTM means Distinguished toastmaster. :

  The problem is the language. Toastmasters tells us to use easily understood language, but uses words which nobody who I know uses in everyday life. I never talk about a pathway in education, only a course. I don't talk about electives. I talk about options. Unless I am climbing Everest, which I have never done, I don't use the word basecamp. On a website I might use the word first page, home page, or page one. I never use the word transcript. I might use the word homework, or task, or written work. I could not use all these technical terms in my secondary languages of French or Spanish or German. So it seems challenging to expect these words to make sense to all my club members whose first language is Chinese, Cantonese, Tamil, Japanese and Vietnamese. Large numbers of people cannot cope with everyday words such as there and their, and using the verb to be, and the past tense. Is it realistic to expect them to cope with the combined challenges of a computer system, on top o...

  The club might give you timing cards. Physical cards. Red. Yellow. Green.  Or online, red, yellow and green backgrounds. Who likes this role? Newcomers who are nervous about speaking like to start as an ah counter. Be the Ah Counter Who likes this role? Newcomers who are nervous about speaking like to be an ah counter.

Join the Odyssey project to offer yourself as a mentor or to be a mentor. With anybody anywhere in the world. Useful Websites (alphabetically) https://www.eventbrite.com/signin https://www.facebook.com/groups/growtoastmastersclub/ https://www.meetup.com/ https://toastmastersd108.org/odyssey-project/ https://www.shopify.co.uk/facebook/ https://www.toastmasters.org/education/speechcraft

Facebook - Boosting by Liking On Facebook you want likes to look more popular and to boost Facebook's own mechanical push of popular posts. When you post, ask members to like the page. This keeps them involved, as well as boosting the page. Instead of sending the photos via WhatsApp, send to your whatsApp group the link to the Facebook page and ask the members to like the photo and like the Facebook page. Facebook Boosting By Paying I thought that if your club is small you might get marketing help from your area budget. Now it seems that it's the other way around. If the area has no budget, if your club is larger and has more funds you could use them to boost your club on Facebook. You could boost for a week, and that way reach out to non Toastmasters. You can pay once off for a week to get signups for Speechcraft. You might want to do this well in advance. Also allow time to creat good websites and material to send in reply such as a sign up form. Regular Postings You can ask ...