As promised, Toastmaster Watanabe brought three toastmasters friends from Tokyo to Taipei to attend Peace Toastmasters Club's year end meeting this afternoon. Frankly speaking, I wouldn't have skipped the clogging dance class this afternoon if Toastmaster Watanabe were not in Town. But, I must say it was one of the most exciting meetings I've ever attended. It was inspiring to listen to the speeches of young and old Toastmasters, Taiwanese and Japanese, especially during the Christmas season.
Toastmaster Watanabe Yoshihito came to Taiwan 8 years ago for the first time with a tour group of toastmasters members from Nagoya. In the past 8 years, Toastmaster Watanabe has invited many Japanese toastmasters to Taiwan and has contributed a lot to the development of Japanese speaking toastmasters in Taiwan. He is a precious Japanese toastmaster friend to us Taiwanese.
Friday evening, I put on Mrs. Santa Claus' Outfit to wait for Toastmaster Watanabe and his clan at the New World Hotel. After dinner at a huge teahouse in Hsi-men, we went to a nearby TGI Fridays for the second party. What could be a better place than TGI Fridays to welcome dear toastmasters friends from Japan on Fridays? We ate, drank and talked till midnight.
As usual, there is a dinner banquet in honor of VIPs from Japan after the year-end meeting. Toastmasters Murata, Agioka, Yoshimura joined the meeting and party for the first time, they became family members immediately. We ate, drank, sang, danced for two and half hours. The Karaoke machine didn't stop from the beginning till the end. I bet it was the first time the restaurant made so much fortune from a Karaoke machine. We made a record in year 2008. When toastmasters are together, the time flies on the double!
Thanks to Toastmasters Watanabe, Murata, Agioka, Yoshimura for bringing the Christmas joy to us in year 2007 and wish everybody a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous year of rat!
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