"HAPPINESS OF THE HEART WHEN YOUR RETIREMENT FUND IS FULL!"

Pania Toastmasters Meeting Held on 31^st October 2019

Happiness of the heart when your retirement fund is full.

Graeme who was like a kid with a new toy honked the hooter, to get everyone’s attention so he could introduce Michael as the Toastmaster of the day. This was the first time Michael had been toastmaster and what a great job he did. He smoothly took in changes of speaking times and organised hecklers for Patrick’s speech. The meeting ran efficiently and to time. Apologies were received and carried. Pedro read the Mission Statement confidently.

Laurel introduced our two guests Brian and Steven, Area R3Director and Divisional R  Director respectively.

Mehran introduced and evaluated Carol's speech “Happy for No Reason – Pillars of the Heart”. This was Mehran first evaluation and what a great job he did. In the introduction he gave us some personal information about Carol and told us of Carol’s objectives. Carol the “happiness architect” explained that the biggest key to happiness is kindness, generosity, forgiveness and love. Love Heals.  She rounded off her speech with a very good quote which gave us something to think about.  Mehran evaluated Carol’s speech giving many commendations and a couple of recommendations. He noted that Carol meet her objectives.  A very enjoyable speech and constructive evaluation.

Sandy introduced and evaluated Patrick speech “Money Till You Drop”. Sandy explained to us that she would not be evaluating Patrick's 10 to 15 minute speech but evaluating how he dealt with the hecklers in the crowd. The objectives were to practise strategies of dealing with crowd disruption. A very informative speech and a little bit of a wake-up-call for those of us getting close to receiving our bonus from the government for reaching 65. Sandy evaluated Patrick in her normal positive, warm way. She congratulated Patrick on how well he dealt with the hecklers. How calm he was while using his strategies to deal with the interruptions.  With skills like that he could easily be our next Prime Minister.

Table Topics Master Graeme was next up. He chose Steven as his first TT speaker.

“Would you like to be a Racing Car Driver”. Steven quickly got into the subject telling us how speed worries him and makes him scared. Drawing on family stories of driving lessons and speed. He rounded off by saying, being a racing car driver was not for him.

“Would you like to be an Aeroplane Pilot” was Benita’s subject. Benita got into this subject with enthusiasm and told us a story about her family and how her Uncle was a WW1 pilot and how he loved to take her flying and terrify her.  A great story about family dynamics.

“Would you like to be a Lion Tamer” was Brian's subject. Brian told a humorous speech (lucky hes not in the competition on Friday night) about how he loves animals and would Tame A Lion with his heart.

Laurel gave a very thorough evaluation of the table topics with good commendations and recommendations for each person.

 TK Paula very efficiently read out the times and General Evaluator Lou, congratulated Mehran and Michael on doing a great job with their first time Roles.  She also positively evaluated Sandy and Laurel for their, informative and enthusiastic evaluations.

Michael wound up the meeting on time and thanked us for our contribution to the meeting.

Best Table Topics: Benita

Best Speech:  Patrick

Best Evaluator: Mehran