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When I attended the District Leader Training in August, I met
Toastmasters from every continent except Antarctica. I now
know Toastmasters in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Canada, Germany,
Australia, India and many other places. It is impressive to see

the extent to which Toastmasters truly is International.
If you are new to Toastmasters, or even if you’ve been
a member for decades but have remained exclusively
involved in your own club, I encourage you to go beyond

your own club and get to know the wide world of
Toastmasters that makes this organization “International."

Going International

Leela Seeber

I joined Toastmasters in 2019. I joined club 1360 New Horizons.

I picked my club by going online and finding the club that
was ten minutes away from my house. This was an age of
innocence. Soon we were taught to hide our smiles behind
face masks. Our club, like so many, made the leap to Zoom as

the liferaft to save our club.
That leap has allowed us to grow in unexpected ways. We
update our website and Facebook page often so everyone can Marcy Field, DTM
see what an active fun club we are. We post information in a from Canada meets

way that makes it easy to understand the time differences and local New Horizons
meet us. member Bill Maher
We started building connections with people around the
world. Some of our new friends are: Anu from India, Stephen

from China, and Val from the U.K.
Some visitors have forged deep connections with our club.
Patricia from Ireland even volunteered to be the guest speaker
at our St. Patrick's day celebration in 2021.

Rebok From Australia became our first International member
about a year ago. Marcy our most recent international member
lives in Canada. While vacationing she made a stop to visit us!
What started for me as a way to meet people locally has

blossomed into an international adventure. Our local
club is now touching hearts and minds around the world!
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