12/29/2012 at San Gabriel Hilton Hotel - Trinity Restaurant, our 144th Hakka Toastmasters' monthly meeting has a great turn out, 33 friends gathered for a wonderful event before the year of 2012 is going by. Our term speaker Wen Sung has prepared a wonderful presentation. Chang-Ting is such a great MC as usual.
Our volunteers have delivered again. Of course, only the volunteers know there is an accident about Projector. (It ends up, our good friend also the manager of Hilton, Juli Costanzo helps us to get a good projector in time. Ivan's projector might need a new light bulb. Thanks Richard Chen did make a run to Taiwan Center to borrow one, which we has it as back up and luckily did not use it...I love our volunteers...they have done so many things behind the scenes, always.) Josephine has made a great arrangement for the venue, also works with the crew in the restaurant to make sure our friends to enjoy the best service during our lunch buffet.
From the photos...we know this is a happy gathering. We will hope to keep this monthly meeting moving on. Brother Shih-Hung will retire and move back to Taiwan in January, so many great photography service he has volunteered for our events...we surely will miss him. All the best to his moving back to our homeland...to take care his mom and stay with Mrs. Lo...We know many of their "kids" in the camp are waiting for him....We hope he will join us whenever he visit L.A.
There are so many Hakka friends in the Los Angeles, we just hope this monthly meeting at least will be a good practice for using our mother tongue to meet and share our life experience...also to get our teamwork leadership training for the community service. Maybe...one day this Hakka Toastmasters Meeting could be everywhere in Taiwan and all over the World, that we Hakka Taiwanese can plug along wherever we are. Maybe that is a New Year 2013 Resolution for our Hakka Toastmasters Meeting.
At the end, we also think Wen's presentation - 漫談台灣介古典建築 should be considered to bring back...maybe as one of the program for our 2013 Taiwanese American Heritage Week Celebration.
Enjoy the slideshow....
