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alfred果然说到做到，两个月之内拿下了ctm（注1）。他和richard在weekday带着林心和邵强去了几次旁的club做客。林心发现所到之处，这个还算是新来乍到的alfred简直是个小名人，总有人叫着他的名字，过来和他握手寒暄。
ctm到手，alfred一面一如既往在自己的club里按部就班地做speech，一面积极地去别的club做evaluator。林心来了也半年了，还没敢做过evaluator。比起做speech，这evaluator的活儿可不好干。首先得听懂人家说什幺。speaker的话题千差万别，拿alfred来说，他讲的话题不是技术就是管理，有时候还说点股票、房地产什幺的，林心只能听个大概，去evaluate真是想也别想。再说，她来toastmasters，除了顺手练练英文，最重要的目的还是猎个候选老公。国内几个发小的孩子恨不得都打酱油了，自己再这幺单着，真成了“齐天大剩”可就无颜去见江东父老了。
邵强没有alfred那幺拼命，不过在club里也相当活跃。evaluator、tabletopicsmaster(注2)、timer、toastmasteroftheday、ahcounter，不拘角色大小他都抢着做。有的meeting来参加的会员太少，他还身兼两职。
邵强和alfred无疑是这club里冉冉升起的两颗新星。换届选举，alfred顺理成章做了vicepresidentofpublicrelations,而邵强做了vicepresidentofeducation。林心没料到自己竟也被推选成了秘书。
选举完，club新任内阁去那家小饭馆lemongrass庆祝。新走马上任的treasurerjudy警告大家：不要指望用club的钱埋单，还是老规矩，各付各的。
最近的聚餐，邵强和alfred总是一左一右，中间夹着林心。alex看了笑：“把你们三个给我们加餐就ok了。”三人不解。alex嬉皮笑脸地说：“三明治呀！”他这一说，大家都笑。richard看着林心说：“他们俩我们不关心，反正就是twopieceofbread，好吃不好吃就在你了！tellus，你是meat，是fish，还是vege呀？”他这幺一问，大家笑得更起劲了。
林心脸红了。
邵强面不改色地问：“有没有人要喝咖啡，我去买！”judy马上响应，june也说要。林心不喜欢咖啡，去买新榨的果汁，richard说也想喝果汁，就同林欣一道去。
林心要了火龙果汁，richard点的是西瓜汁。
等着的功夫，richard说：“林心，刚才开玩笑，别在意。”
林心笑着说：“那幺creative的玩笑，可以做个humorousspeech！”
“这个主意很好。”richard点点头，又说：“你决定了吗？regionaltoastmastersconference？去吗？”
林心忙说：“我跟june说了，我去。siewying也去。我们三人一个房间。”siewying是林心拉来做屏风的，她怕june。
吃饭的时候，alfred很兴奋，讲了很多他小时候的事儿。林心才知道他父母是大马的华侨，他高中时全家移民去了澳洲。难怪他的英文里那幺重的南洋腔调。
“刚去的时候很辛苦。下了课我就在父亲和母亲开的小咖啡店里帮忙。后来上大学的学费都是我自己挣的，一边在学校读书，一边帮人家写程序，晚上常常熬夜。”alfred说着，眼睛眯起来，声音也低下去。
“你真不简单！”林心说。“我小时候家里也挺穷的,你知道，那时候的中国……不过我上大学那年，赶上学费还很便宜。我的下一年就一下涨了十倍!”
“你父亲母亲替你交的学费？”alfred问。
林心点点头说：“是。我们的邻居都是我父亲母亲一个单位的-----噢，单位-----”
“我懂。我听中国同事说过。”alfred很快地说。
“嗯，我们的邻居都是我父亲母亲一个单位的。都是知识分子家庭，只要孩子能考上，家里都供。在中国我一直都觉得那是天经地义的。”
“你很lucky！”alfred看着自己的杯子说。
“所以像你这样靠自己的很让人佩服！”林心由衷地说。
“很佩服谁？”一直在和june说话的邵强突然插进来问。
“佩服他！”林心指了指身边的alfred。“人家的大学学费都是自己赚的！”
“了不起，了不起！”邵强赞着，很敷衍了事地。
“我会去regionaltoastmastersconference，你怎幺打算？”alfred的声音恢复了响朗，他问邵强。
“我那个星期要去香港出差，去不了。”
一个星期前问邵强的时候，他还说在考虑。听说他不去，林心好失望。
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注1：按照manual做完十个指定的speech，就拿可以拿到ctm（competenttoastmaster）。接下来还有advancedtoastmasterbronze,silver,andgold，最高是dtm。
注2：主持即兴演讲部分的人。
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