"THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING!"

The Magic of Believing.

Tamara was the first time Toastmaster and had a well laid out and colourful programme with the theme The Magic of Believing. She also had a new and very practical room lay out, although the TM’s table could have been set further back to enable the speakers to include everyone.

Sandy was the first speaker with her informative presentation about the consequences of global warming. Sandy was introduced and evaluated by Lou. Her first time as an evaluator. Lou did a very good job and told us a little about Sandy in her introduction and read the speech objectives. She referred to the objectives again in her evaluation and spoke in the third person. Her recommendation for Sandy was to slow down a little.

Graeme was the second speaker with a presentation from the Competent Communicator manual. For the eighth time apparently! Graeme told us about his trip around the lower South Island on his new motor bike when he was just 21. He sent telegrams (a pre-internet email) to his Mum at every stop and was home in time for tea.

Graeme was evaluated by Darryl who commended his vocal variety and picked up on Graeme’s phrasing of a sentence and found a flaw in Graeme’s time and distance calculations.

Craig was the Table Topics Master and kept to The Magic of Believing theme. He quoted words from the I Believe song, but didn’t actually sing. The four Table Topics were all about belief. The afterlife, self-esteem, Santa Claus and is NZ all it is promoted to be?

Table Topics were evaluated by Marc with good commendations and recommendations.

The meeting was well summarised by the General Evaluator, Mike, who had stepped in at the last minute and he was assisted by the Timekeeper, Linda, who was a little late arriving but got us finished on time!!(Ed)

Best Speaker – Sandy

Best Evaluator – Marc

Best Table Topics - Linda