{"id":906,"date":"2012-04-02T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=906"},"modified":"2013-06-28T22:59:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T03:59:42","slug":"toastmasters-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/toastmasters-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Toastmasters, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve mentioned before that I joined Toastmasters last spring<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In almost a year, I’ve given twelve speeches, and spoken at many more meetings–the program is designed so that nearly everyone who attends a meeting gets a chance to speak in front of the crowd. I’m a lot less nervous about it than I used to be. Admittedly, a lot of that is probably that it’s pretty much the same group of people every week! But I’ll take it.<\/p>\n

Recently I gave the tenth speech in the Competent Communicator manual–that’s the first set of speeches that everyone starts out with. For this I get a certificate and the happy feeling of surviving.<\/p>\n

I skipped ahead a bit, which is why I’ve done twelve speeches. I bought the Interpretive Reading manual last summer and have done the first two “advanced” speeches from that: reading a story and reading a poem. Since being able to give decent readings was one of the main reasons I joined, I plan to repeat Read a Story about a zillion times. My poor club<\/a>–I don’t think many of them read fantasy or science fiction. Maybe I can turn them into fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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