Hey, WorldSurfers! Did you know that the first unofficial Toastmasters meeting was held on March 24, 1905? Or that 90 years ago, in 1928, the name “Toastmasters Club” was trademarked, and the predecessor of the Competent Communicator manual entitled “Ten lessons in Public speaking” was published and copyrighted? We decided to commemorate these important milestones…
Read MoreHey, WorldSurfers! Have you wondered whether there are more men or women in the world? We have prepared some stats to satisfy your curiousity: men hold a slight lead with 102 men for 100 women, or, if we put it in percentage terms, there are 50.4% of male population and 49.6% of female population in…
Read MoreHey, WorldSurfers! As you most likely know, Year 2018 is going to be exceptionally rich in terms of global and regional sports events – such as Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, FIFA World Cup in Russia, charity marathons in Russian cities and others. We prefer to keep up with the rapidly expanding trend of leading…
Read MoreHey, WorldSurfers! How’s your New Year going? Have you already started your daily exercises in the morning? Or have you been learning a new foreign language for a whole month now? Or probably you have given yourself a solemn promise to stop procrastinating, and have never since that moment yielded to the temptation of…
Read MoreHey, WorldSurfers! Year 2018 has already started to make its way through our lives. And while you are setting your goals and preparing your list of resolutions to accomplish in the upcoming 12 months, we invite you to look back into December 2017 and recollect what our last meeting of that year was like. First…
Read MoreHey, WorldSurfers! We are delighted to provide you with a detailed report of our very special event which took place on Saturday, September 26th – Jazz it up! meeting in Skolkovo. First of all, we once again would like to express gratitude to our long-standing partners, American Center of the Library of Foreign…
Read MoreHey, WorldSurfers! Summer is finally here, the temperature is up, and the sun is shining brightly! At our last meeting we shared our ways to withstand extreme heat during summer periods. Check out the detailed report of WS meeting #81! For many people summer time is associated with renovation. If you happen to be one…
Read MorePoints Speakers Speaker #1 Maya Zaynetdinova 4,5 Project #1, Ice-breaker Title An occasion to break our boundaries Manual Competent Communicator Personal Evaluator Olga Dubovitskaya 4,3 Speaker #2 Marina Pelepets 4,1 Project #4, How to say it Title A street cat named Bob Manual Competent Communicator Personal Evaluator Andrey Kosilov 4,9 Roles Toastmaster of the day…
Read MorePoints Speakers Speaker #1 Gaya Oganesyan 4.3 Project: #1, Ice-breaker Title: Small Lovely Motherland Manual Competent Communicator Personal Evaluator Kristina Sharykina 4.2 Speaker #2 Pavel Kaptel 3.1 T Project: #3, Get to the point Title: Living through a crisis Manual Competent Communicator Personal Evaluator Nadezhda Zherebina 4.4 Roles Toastmaster of the day Ekaterina Mikhaylova 4.4 General…
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