"WHO THOUGHT THE CHALLENGE WAS MONEY SHAME?"

At Pania's meeting on Thursday 14th March we held the International Speech Contest, which was contested by three members. Visiting Toastmaster Steve, volunteered!! to be the Chairman and we also had a visiting Judge from Napier Club, Brenda.

Unfortunately our President, Marc, was delayed in Auckland as he was also going to be very competitive in the Contest, but not this year!!
Carol was the first speaker and she had an excellent idea of utilising the seven stages of thought process to entertain and educate us.Entitled "Let Thoughts Become Things" Carol covered the   seven Laws of Thought. with a very interesting presentation although a lot was packed into 7 minutes.
Next up was Anna, with her speech entitled "Money Shame!", and interesting presentation that allowed the audience to consider the 'so-called' power of money and the need to have all the right things that it can buy. Anna used a personal example to show the problem, in that we place far too much importance on money and what it can buy, and even more so on the lack of money and the possible 'shame' that it can produce. A thought provoking presentation.
Finally Craig gave us a speech entitled "Challenges" where he started with a quote from George C Patton "accept the challenges so you can feel the exhilaration of victory!". Craig told us about a personal challenge he met and achieved several years ago and implored the audience to accept challenges and thrive on the achievement of success.

Three good speeches that entertained the members and two guests present, the winner was Anna, who now goes on the the Area R3 Finals next Tuesday 19th March at Greenmeadows Community Centre, where she will compete against the winners from the other five Clubs in this Area. Good Luck Anna!

We then had an impromptu Table Topics session run by Graeme, which allowed the other members who had not spoken the opportunity to speak, these included, Napier member's Steve and Brenda, one of the guests who had been previously, Paula & Lou. All spoke well to a variety of subjects , which were all based around 'firsts' (e.g. boyfriend, girlfriend, car etc).

A good meeting, rather poorly attended by members, but hopefully they will all be back next week now the Contests are out of the way!

GET ALONG ON TUESDAY AND SUPPORT Anna (International Speech) and Marc (Evaluation)
at the AREA R3 CONTEST night. 7.00pm (FREE!!! and supper provided)