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what to expect. I went to the meeting and, with people on a regular basis. I highly

surprisingly, I was interested right away. I recommend you go to a Toastmasters
thought I was speaking correctly, but I was meeting. Who knows, maybe you’ll find that
totally wrong. Turns out there were multiple this club is right for you. The reason I joined
things I was doing wrong. Toastmasters is because my family owns a
Toastmasters really teaches you how business that I work for, and one day, I’ll be

to speak professionally and in a proper, in charge of that business, when it is time.
presentable way. It can also teach you things I think it is very important for me to learn
you may be lacking in. For example, if you everything about Toastmasters, especially if

want to have leadership skills, or if you just I want to be a business owner one day.
want to be humorous in your speech, or
even if you aren’t comfortable speaking in Donald—
front of people, Toastmasters can help you I first joined Toastmasters at Deer Ridge
with these skills. If you want to get better Correctional Institution. I had a positive

at certain speaking skills, whether it be for experience that lasted nearly 3 years. I
a job interview, speaking with people for served multiple times as a club officer, and
a business, or even just communicating participated in several speech contests.

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