The New Beginning

The New Beginning - My Toastmaster Life

            Toastmaster International is a place where the leaders and speakers are made. I am a Jehovah’s Witness. We have a training School call Theocratic Ministry School. So I am been giving small bible talks since I am 8 years of age. It’s a very good training, but it was only within the circle of Jehovah’s Witness.  I want to come out and improve my skills and want to become popular. Danajaya Hettiarachchi wasn’t there and Toastmasters were not a popular thing at that time. I even didn’t know about it. I saw an advertisement on a Newspaper. I call the number a deep voice came from other side and was very friendly. I was like please take me to your club and He was like please come, pleading me. He was distinguished toastmaster Anura. So it fit in and I went, it was a special meeting. We had training and I did a speech and received three large chocolates for my speech. That encouraged me more.

            But I couldn’t continue the journey. I had deep financial trouble. There were days I didn’t have money to get a meal. But fortunately things changed. DTM Anura also helps during this time by paying my annual fee for the toastmasters international. Yet I was in deep trouble. So I didn’t continue it. Anura never give up on me. Now I am back to normal.

            Again I join this K and J champions club in Ja-ela. Our club is a small club with many enthusiastic people. This is the difference when you go into a community club. If you visit a cooperate club you always find management, HR or IT people. In a community club you can find different personalities.

            Our Priya is a working mother yet she preside the club earnestly giving her best to the club. First meeting was awesome.  I participated for Table topics session. Table topics master brings out things in her hand bang as topics. I selected the Internet Dongle. Depreciating equipment once played a vital role in Internet communication. For those who don’t know about table topics, it’s a segment where the table topics master (conductor of the particular segment) provides topics and members have to voluntarily give speeches about the give topics. Speeches are limited to 2 mins. 

            On the second day, actually on the second week (We keep our meetings on the 2^nd and 4^th week of every month) I was the table master for the day. Table Master is like the meeting conductor of the day. I enjoyed it very much. It’s like going back to school.

Then on 19th August 2018, I went to judges training. First we had how to conduct effective meetings.

Next Friday I have my Ice breaker speech. I will tell you more when I break Ice.