Friday, May 25, 2007

Ovation 2007

The toastmasters of district 82 which consists of India and Sri Lanka held the annual conference at the heritage club in New Delhi, India from the 18th till the 20th May 2007. The event attracted 93 Sri Lankan toastmasters and many families from all over India. Although heat was unbearable, the atmosphere within the premises was great filled with joy, excitement and the warmth of getting to know more people.

The highlight of the event was the speech contest for Impromptu speaking, prepared speech session and the humour. Sri Lanka came out with flying colours by winning all three competitions and also bagging a second spot for the prepared speech session. I am proud to say that our fellow toastmaster CTM Dananjaya Hettiarachchi the VP Education was the person placed second in the prepared speech although i seriously felt his was far superior to any other of the day.

To just brief, Toastmasters is a personality development programme which is targetted at effective communication and thus leadership. I have seen some tremendous improvement in the past year since i had joined and find that it encourages you with lots of options available. Every meeting is a learning proces. Any out there who is willing to test this out, feel free to check http://www.toastmasters.org and check the club that meets nearest to your place; talk to them and get yourself invited for a demo meeting. you will get addicted undoubtedly.

The Ovation 2008 is planned to be in Bangalore, and im sure that its gonna be another session of great speeches.

So lets start toastmastering....!
K!

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