11 May, 2013

Small Talk

Today’s session of the Gabfest speaking club (at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) was a free-topic session. Consequently, club visitors had a chance to enhance their speaking skills.
The meeting started from an introduction speeches of the newcomers and regular club members. New visitor Lada S. shared her experience living in the US and was mentioned that it could help her become more fluent while having a chance to be in the environment of native speakers.
The conversation drifted into discussion of how important to learn new languages and weather new language might reduce or effect on knowledge of the old one. Though, learning promotes brain health, helps stay mentally sharp and improves its function as well as focus, concentration and creativity, it might also change the size of the brain that was a fact mentioned by a club member from personal experience.
The next «small talk» was about celebrity`s life and in the end of the session was a summarized discussion about happiness.
Being popular is a hard work and not for ordinary human beings who hardly might handle the chasing of paparazzi. There are many talented people who compose high-class music which remains for decades but show business dictates its own rules and there are many projects which were mass-market and money oriented. That`s why they lasted a moment and forever have been failed to remember.
Happiness is a state of mind which reflects positive attitude. The quote by an American journalist and a former government official John Homer Miller brings to light the simple rule which should be followed so that keep happiness inside “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens”.
To recapitulate, the session was attended by club members in spite of the hot spring weather. All the participants interchanged their viewpoints in a meeting and find the discussion practical.
Number of participants – 8  persons.

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