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Keep Calm and Get a Scholarship

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Our meeting last week was themed: Keep Calm and Get a Scholarship. The Word of the Day was Triumph. This theme was chosen because many Toastmasters members in Jakarta are interested to study abroad, so our club is trying to facilitate a useful meeting for them. The Toastmasters of the Meeting was TM Puspita, who just received a scholarship to study in Sweden. She explained about several foreign countries that offer scholarship to Indonesians, such as Sweden, The U.K, USA, Japan, Netherlands, and etc. The Table Topics Master was TM Lia, who gave questions related to scholarship, which were: 1.        Why do you deserve a scholarship? 2.        What if you are faced with an intimidating interviewer for scholarship application? 3.        If your child in the future wants to go abroad, will you fund him/her on your own, or will you ask them to get a scholarship? 4.        If you’re a judge for scholarship, who will you choose? We have three prepared speakers last

Turn Back Jokes!

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Last week, Jakarta Motivators Toastmasters Club meeting theme was “Turn Back Jokes”. It was really a special meeting. The Toastmasters of the meeting was our SAA, TM Yoga, and the Table Topics Master was Club President Erwin. He asked questions related about jokes. Next, Lia delivered a redo of her BM7, titled “Get Slimmer by Eating”. She is always interested in searching diet tips that fit her. And the tips that she found is so fun, because it doesn’t ask you to reduce eating, but to eat more. Based on the researches by Tokyo University and  New York University, there are some food that if you eat more, it will help you burn more calories and fat, and lose weight. First, it’s water. Plain water, not ice water. The more you drink water, the more weight you will lose.  Next, there are staple food substitutes, black beans and oats. Exchange your rice with beans or oats a few times a week, and you will lose weight, because they have less sugar in every portion. Then the