CYCLING AND COMMUNITY
On a wet and chilly Thursday lunchtime there was a
gathering of Pania Toastmasters. All those fulfilling roles were … except for
the Toastmaster or the Day! Fortunately Graeme stood in and kicked off the
meeting, until our schedule Toastmaster for the Day, Carol, arrived after
battling heavy traffic. An excellent colourful program was provided (if a little late!) with a June theme.
Our first speaker was Noel speaking from the old
classic Competent Communicator manual. His talk about the chess like game of
cycling pelotons was entertaining and informative. In his evaluation, Mike
congratulated Noel on ‘stepping outside the box’ of a traditional speech and
using voice, props, and actions did something that was different to other
speeches Noel has done.
Next up was Table Topics presented by Laurel. Each
‘victim’ got 4 random cards with pictures on them and were required to make a
story from them. Craig talked about building houses with a garden; Tamara
talked about travelling and eating food; Carol talked about her travels to the
UK and a possible Russian adventure; and Mike was just being a clown.
The
second speaker of the day was Craig who talked about the Napier City Patrol
which supplemented the police in providing patrols of the Napier area in an
effort to reduce crime. It was Tamara’s first evaluation and she did well
praising Craig for his presentation and even providing recommendations, always a
challenge when evaluating an experienced speaker.
Table topics was ably
evaluated by Linda who was able to cheerfully provide both commendations an
recommendations to all speakers.
Darryl summed up the meeting extremely well, in the extra time that he had available and was assisted by the Timekeeper Graeme, who managed to keep us ahead of time!! (Ed)
Speaker of the day was Noel; Evaluator of the
day was Tamara; and Table Topics Speaker of the day was Carol.
We do it all again next week with Tamara as the Toastmaster, I am sure we are in for an excellent meeting!
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