I remember meeting Mark Hunter when he was preparing for a speech contest in around 1999. My cousin told me that he “had a voice like chocolate” – apparently in contrast to my own. Ten years have passed, and Mark has gone from being the Champion of District 69 to being World Champion. And we congratulate him.
You can listen to the start of his speech here.
The local newspaper records that, “Mark Hunter is proof positive of what can be achieved with a liberal dose of self-determination and an appreciation of the power of love.” And they have included the text from his speech in this story on his great achievement.
Mark, you probably don’t remember me, but congratulations!
- Daniel Smith, DTM
Below is the text of the speech. There seem to be a few errors amid the wonderful examples of alliteration – can you pick them?
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After a very tight contest, Delphy Chow ACS CL won the International contest at CAT last night with her speech about her speech “My Journey to Financial Freedom”.
We’re also pleased that Joyce Hu CC CL will be representing CAT for the Mandarin Showcase at the Area contest.
Congratulations to you both and thank you to our judges from People’s Square and Shanghai Leadership and MSD Clubs!
Let’s keep exploring how flexible the Chinese are…
- We can even change our age on our passport for winning the Olympics.
- Our use of melamine is flexible,too. We sell different kinds of milk to different people – safe milk to the Olympics athletes and staff; milk with melamine to our fellow Chinese.
- Flexibility in pricing… for laowai it is a lot, for Chinese OK, and for friends very cheap! – by Emily Minor
- Our taxies are flexible, too. How long does it take to take the taxi from People’s Square to ZhongShanpark? For local people, 20 minutes. For people from other province, a little bit longer. 30 minutes. That’s to help them get familiar with this city. For foreigners, 1 hour. Cause we think foreigners would love to do more sightseeing.
- ……………..to be continued
This afternoon, CAT did great!!!
Between Delphy Chow winning Humorous (with her fabulous speech on Flexibility),
Bill Wang taking out Runner Up with his Black Swan speech, and
Dan Smith (yeah, me!) being awarded Second Place for Table Topics,
so three of the four place-getters were CAT members.
Congratulations one and all – we are all very proud of you!
Also congratulations to our Area Governor and member, Andrew Shih, for conducting such a successful and well-attended event.
C Division Contest: 26 October at MSD
… and our next meeting: 25 September
Our Contest night provided great entertainment for all.
Delphy Chow was a standout with some dynamic kicks and dancing to take the Humorous Contest championship, followed by a great performance from Chris Haynes.
Dan Smith took out Table Topics, with Chris Haynes again in second place.
All three are now eligible for the Area Contest to be held later this month – good luck to them all!
I remember meeting Mark Hunter when he was preparing for a speech contest in around 1999. My cousin told me that he “had a voice like chocolate” – apparently in contrast to my own. Ten years have passed, and Mark has gone from being the Champion of District 69 to being World Champion. And we congratulate him.
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