D67 Installation Ceremony 2012

Golden ladies Toastmasters became the talk of town after their eye opening folk dance performance at Legacy Toastmasters Club's 15th Anniversary Friday, June 15th. The moment seven goldies Toastmasters stepped down from the stage, Incoming D67 Governor YS Liao offered them another stage time at D67 Installation Ceremony, June 30th. In order to inject more of vitality and energy to incoming District 67 Officers 2012, Toastmaster Trini Ding decided to invite Peter Wee, Jennie Wang, and me to perform "Jimmy" choreographed by John Bishop and Peter Wee, along with Golden Ladies Toastmasters trademark dance  Kungfu Fighting.

Peter Wee comes from Melbourne to Taiwan every year. He has been given Summer Clogging Workshop in Taipei for consecutive four years. It's a bliss to Taipei Happy Cloggers to learn with a passionate and enthusiastic clogger and cuer from down under. Whenever we clog with Peter, everybody gets so much uplifted. How I wish that I could jump higher and move swifter! Whenever Peter is in town, I won't miss his workshop. I love to clog, particularly the dances choreographed by him. After the workshop, there is always a beer party waiting for us to quench our thirst! Kanpai to all cloggers around the world! A la vôtre!

Jennie Wang is the instructor of Taipei Happy Cloggers. She has been a devoted clogger and cuer for more than a decade. Trini and I started clogging with her five years ago. Jennie took Trini to a clogging convention in the US a few years ago. It's my hope Jennie can lead a group of golden ladies clogging Toastmasters and Taipei happy cloggers to Australia Clogging Convention 2013 in Canberra. In the meantime, I must clog more diligently with Jennie to get familiar with more basic clogging steps.

Peter, Jennie, Trini, and I had an awesome demo D67 Installation Ceremony, despite Jennie hurt her right wrist at Peter's workshop this afternoon and I suffered a leg cramp (first time in my life, my legs must feel exhausted after Peter's three hours intensive workshop, hey Pete, see how excited I was clogging right behind you) at the last minute before our performance. Murphy Law made Jennie and I wear wrong clogging shoes, as Jennie forgot to bring her clogging shoes. Luckily, she borrowed a pair two sizes larger. After I had a leg cramp, we swapped our clogging shoes. In the end, both Jennie and I danced with clogging shoes one size larger, fortunately we didn't dance with two left feet!

Many thanks to Peter for coming all the way from Australia to coach us patiently the dance steps of "Jimmy" and "Just the Way You Are" of his 2011 Summer Clogging Workshop for our performance at D67 Installation Ceremony. It was indeed a joyful clogging day, with five dances, including "Bounce With Me", "Broken Hearted", "Friday", "Good Night", and "Missing You" at Peter's 2012 Suumer Clogging Workshop from 2:30PM till 5:30PM Saturday afternoon, June 30th!

It is my hope that more and more Toastmasters get to know about the clogging dance. More and more Toastmasters get interested in putting on the clogging shoes. In the world of clogging, let's stay high and fit, let's stay young and beautiful, let's clog and laugh together.