Another fab meeting for Toastmasters Pania on Thursday November the
1st.
Our experienced Toastmaster for the day was Jen who ran the meeting
with a general theme of gratefulness - with some snippets about the many gifts
of life and the things we have to be happy about. One of our newest members
Jenny read the club mission statement for us - it is always good to be reminded
of the over-arching goals for our time at Toastmasters.
Sandy gave us a warm introduction to our first speaker for the
meeting - Linda. It was great that Sandy gave us some background information
into Linda's journey through Toastmasters as well. Linda's speech titled “Going,
Going, Gone” took us through an at times personal journey of dealing with loss -
accompanied by a handout with some practical steps for us all to take home and
think about.
Sandy's evaluation covered a common issue for evaluators - to step
outside of the speech to be able to evaluate it. It’s so easy to become
engrossed in the many great speeches we get to listen to. There were no
recommendations for Linda, but Linda had asked for Sandy to look out for her
speech structure and she had some good positive feedback around that.
We had some extra time for table topics today and Heather therefore
lead 5 questions around people's experiences and memories about their school days
and we learned a little more about the pasts of Jenny, Lou, Graeme, Sandy and
Mike. Paula evaluated the 5 table topic speakers and had commendations for
everyone and a few recommendations as well.
Mike did a reading from a book of editorials by columnist Joe Bennett
- an English man, living in Christchurch who has a brilliant use of the English
language and is quite funny to boot! Mike caught a case of the giggles and so
did the audience - a great choice for us all to sit back, relax and enjoy
listening to.
Time Keeper Julie finished off with an update on how we ran, and then
after a quick general evaluation of everyone we finished our meeting for another
week.
Best Speaker : Linda
Best Evaluator: Sandy
Best Table Topic: Mike
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