The Talking Traveller

During my stay in Sydney I visited 2 toastmasters clubs the Tuesday. The first club was AMP toastmasters which were a bunch of neatly dressed people on the lunch break. The meeting was held short and consice and I heard great speeches.Especially one advanced speech that was a simulation of a news reporter style report on the dangers of climbing Mount Everest. Another member told the life story of his grandpa who recently past away. A remarkable tale of a Jewish survivor of the holocaust. The other club I visited was the ACCA club. I had the oppertunity to take part in Table topics and had to do a 1min inpromto speach about whiy Humpty Dumpty could not be fixed. Of course that is because he broke much kore that his shell, his whole ego of the ultimate wall-sitter was broken. And no glue can fix a broken ego or a broken hart. I then was asked to do a 5-7min speech about my journeys, it was a great challenge and all went well as I spoke about my journey from South Africa to there, and from stutterer to future eloqeunt speaker. Thank you ACCA toastmasters for your warm welcome, excellent feedback and tips,  and kind support, I had a great time. 

I visited the Sydney acqaurium and saw a duckbilled platapus ( funny thing that one ). In the class tunnels I saw a big manta ray and many angry looking sharks. On my way to the Acqaruim I had a chat with three lovely old ladies on the porch of their flat. I made a full disclosure and they told me that I appeard on the Australian advert for the McGuire program and the reconise me. This was footage shot at the Melbourne course. The wednesday night I dressed up nice and saw a show at the Opera House called Vula. It tells the story of 4 Fiji women and the relations with the sea, themselves, their spirituality and with each other. It was a contemperary show with the stage of water and magical light and musical effects. Truly remarkable artwork, I also experienced this on my visit to the Art Museum.

I then spent 2 days hiking in the blue mountains and now I am in Port Macqaurie. My contacts count is 1212. I'm on my way to the Koala hospital.........