"SINGING ALONG WITH MACRO INVERTEBRATES!"

Wow! who knew what a fun meeting we were going to have when we arrived to a well set up meeting today (22/3/18).?

Our guest Jen two was a most welcome addition to our many new members .We hope she will come again .

Darryl  Drum had the birthday of Andrew Lloyd Weber  as his theme , you know what's coming next, yes, he sang the Mission Statement !! 

At this point Craig Cymbal  was introduced to introduce Sandy Saxophone  , which he did kindly and succinctly .

Sandy  Saxophone gave us a well prepared speech"Let Me Introduce You to My Little Friends-Macroinvertebrates!",  from her vast fund  of information about the “things “ that populate our water ways and what their being there means to eagle eyed scientists , who study this kind of thing .Sandy Saxophone was completing the "Visual Aids" assignment.

Noel  Notes introduced Game  Gong , who told us about his entry into being a car shark, the amount of experience he could evidence  Graeme Gong made us think we were in the company of a true wheeler dealer ……..NOT ! Graeme  Gong was commencing yet another 'Competent Communicator' manual.

Craig  Cymbal sang ! and then 

Craig  Cymbal evaluated Sandy Saxophone , telling us how he was doing the evaluation  and for the benefit of new members Craig Cymbal  did point out that an evaluation is always kind , meant to be  helpful and is one person's opinion.Craig  Cymbal went on to give an evaluation using the CRC method and offered his suggestions to Sandy. Saxophone 

Noel Notes evaluated Graeme Gong  , Noel  Notes made mention of the fact that Graeme Gong is a very experienced Toastmaster , and that his doing the confident communicator  series of speeches is probably for the umpteenth time , and that new comers should not be daunted by the polished speech that was given . Noel  Notes went on to offer his recommendations to Graeme  Gong, which included not scratching your chin ……….see now we are talking to an old experienced Toastmaster ! 

The table topics session was run by Mike  Mouthorgan, he had printed some interesting words on slips of paper , speakers had to choose one and speak learnedly on this subject for two minutes . The baton fell to Tamara  Trombone , Kristy  Conductor and Lou  Loudly and to round things off Jen  one got to play her violin . 

In his evaluation David  Drum said he thought the task a little hard and recommended that an experienced Toastmaster be asked to speak first to give new comers a chance and to see what the expectation is . He awarded the best table topic to Kristy .

Jen gave a quick round up of the meeting , this included Carol Clarinet's time keeper's report .Awards were presented to Kristy , Sandy and Noel . Congratulations to all three .

By then it was time for the last waltz and we all sprang off into the autumn sunshine , singing  a  happy little ditty as we went on with our respective days. 

Thank you all for your efforts in turning a Toastmasters meeting into a symphony .