Speak Again!

After being a District level Toastmasters administrator in the past 3 years, I have started to work on speeches again!

I am taking another approach this time – instead of speaking on technical, scientific, and organizational subjects, I am speaking on my personal experience, and developing a good use of body movements, gestures, vocal varieties, rhetorical devices. Also, I like to speak effectively with passion!

Last Wednesday, I talked about my dreams.  The first one was my transition from dreaming to become a Doctor to actually became an Engineer.  The second one was about developing myself as a leader in Toastmasters.  My evaluator told me that I did not have any body movements in the second part of the speech, compared to the first part.  This is sometime that I got to implement in my next speech – good point!

When I was in Grade 12, I wondered what the English teachers were looking for before putting an 80+% in the essay assignments and a level “5″ in LPI.  I came up with the answer to this question when I was writing this speech -  These teachers were looking for mini proses where students share their life experience, their dreams and their favorite past times in a narrative manner with the appropriate use of  rhetorical devices.  I discover this because I wrote my speech on a writing topic in one of the old Grade 12 English Final Examination.

It is so amazing that I am gradually recognizing the expectations of my high school English teachers when I am going through my Toastmasters journey!

So what’s next?  With a good speaking experience from last week, I will consider competing before running for offices again!