Pania's meeting today was highly entertaining and educational and while traditionally before the 'long' weekend numbers were down a little, those that attended were certainly entertained and educated with the meeting ably led by our Toastmaster Laurel.
Laurel's program was brief and to the point and she had a theme of "Welcome Home" which was utilised throughout the meeting. After we ALL read the Mission Statement we were introduced to the first speech by Carol introducing Anna.Unfortunately Anna is moving to Wairoa and this speech was very well put together as a type of 'thank you' for all you have assisted her with at Toastmasters and farewell, although she will be back! Extremely well presented and thought out, Anna used many of the member's individual contributions to her progress during the presentation, that was amusing and highly entertaining. Who can forget the "BOOM-BOOM" of the heart,the "KNOCK-KNOCK" of the knees and the "BUTTERFLIES FLYING HITHER & THITHER"?
Carol gave an excellent Evaluation of the speech advising the 'she nailed the objectives' and was also able to add three recommendations for Anna- excellent stuff all round!
Next up was Beneta introducing Sandy with a Pathways Assignment "Identifying Conversational Styles an How It Impacts on Others". This was an exceptional presentation with great use of Visual Aids, Personal Stories and very informative for everyone in the audience. We could very clearly see the different personality styles and how they can effect our impact on others with a BOOM in the middle! Sandy has recently changed jobs from 'talking to a computer" to more "talking to people" and this assignment was very timely for her, if this presentation was any indication she will have absolutely no problems!
Beneta evaluated Sandy's presentation, this being her first evaluation, and what a marvellous job she did. Beneta had obviously taken in all that Sandy spoke about and was rightly effusive in her praise for the presentation with a well structured evaluation repeating the objectives, commending and summarising. Both excellent presentations!
Patrick was the Table Topics Master and utilised the theme of "Coming Home" with questions about chores around the house, Mehran was into dusting that his mother left for him,Pedro sings and dances while he does the dishes,Graeme cannot do any washing of clothes as well as Margaret, so he leaves it to her! and Lou loves bing outside, so mowing the lawns is not a problem for her.
Sahar gave a good summary of the Table Topics in her first Evaluation of Table Topics (and no doubt will save some dusting for Mehran!)
Craig wound up the meeting with his General Evaluation assisted by Timekeeper Lou, and we finished right on time. Laurel wished us well for the long weekend and reminded us that we do it all again next Thursday when the Toastmaster is Michael.
Best Table Topic; Pedro
Best Evaluator; Beneta
Best Speaker; Sandy
