Pania Toastmasters first meeting fro 2020 was held on 23rd January and a few diehards managed to bring themselves back to Toastmasters after the Christmas break and enjoy a lively and entertaining meeting.
Club No 1996
Thursday, 30 January 2020
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
"LAUREL TAKES THE CAKE!"
Craig as toastmaster was suitably attired
with sparkly red bow, for the last meeting of the year, on the 12th
of December. Chocolates and juice were on hand. We were warned on the quality of
jokes!
Thursday, 28 November 2019
"NUMBER 42- FEED MY SOUL!"
From: "Marcus van Irsel" <dutchie9@gmail.com>
To: "Craig & Jan" <craig-jan.r@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Meeting report
Date: Friday, November 29, 2019 2:54 PM
Hi Craig,
Graeme kicked off our meeting today letting us all know we were in for a
treat, as Mehran was our Toastmaster for today’s meeting, and such was the
quality of his skill that we’d want him to be TM again next week.
Mehran certainly didn’t disappoint. He had spent plenty of time beforehand
planning this meeting, juggling many things to ensure our programme ran
smoothly. In fact with such competency at juggling I suggested he could
work in the circus!
I really appreciated his comments after each speaker, picking out special
things as in Lou’s speech about enjoying the little things.
New member Hannah, read the mission statement and did a good job. I
suggested to Mehran that he should arrange this before the meeting so the
reader could be familiar with the text and then use more eye contact.
Paula introduced Lou, building her up extremely well by mentioned not once,
but twice that she was a competition winner within the club.
And we were not disappointed by Lou’s speech, “Feed My Soul”. She displayed
all the skills she has developed in her time at Pania, as we learnt her
full name was Louise May “Not”. This was her first ice breaker under
Pathways and she recounted her first ice breaker and how much she had
improved. We found out that the things that feed her soul include her
grandchildren, her own children, followed by husband, friends, the ocean,
gardening and bird watching. Phew!! I don’t see how she could possibly have
time for anything else. A great speech where it was a pleasure to see how
far Lou has come.
Michael then introduced our second speaker, Sandy. Another good
introduction where we were told how Sandy needed to distill all her
knowledge into a 5 – 7 minute presentation.
Sandy’s knowledge and understanding certainly came to the fore with her
subject and how the number 42 “let’s go with it” attitude isn’t going to
work well for us. It was educational as well. We discovered sand is the
second greatest resource used in the world, and ten Google searches is
equivalent to a light bulb burning for one hour. Some very interesting
facts were presented that certainly got the audience thinking.
Craig ran the table topics session, with the theme of music.
We found out Hannah’s favourite solo artist is Elton John because of how he
sings and his flamboyance. In case you’re wondering, she’s definitely going
to his concert here in the Bay next year.
Peter’s most enjoyable musical is Handel’s Messiah, which he was privileged
to hear with a 300 strong combined choir on stage. Sounds like something
the rest of us need to experience.
Israel’s favourite song is Canta Corazon by Alejandro Fernandez (hopefully
I’ve got this right!). Apparently the best way to hear him is in the VIP
area after getting into a concert for free.
Craig, by keeping a crafty eye on time, was able to squeeze one more in and
so asked the same question of Sahar. Her favourite English speaking artist
is Taylor Swift, who, although being very girly, cheers her up and leaves
her feeling good (and isn’t that what music is all about?).
Paula evaluated Lou, pointing out all the many good things about her
presentation and delivered with plenty of enthusiasm. She did seem to have
a problem deciding the best position for the lectern?
Michael had plenty of commendations for Sandy, clearly showing he’d been
paying attention. I thought he should be prepared to offer recommendations,
although he did throw a sneaky one in anyway.
The table topics were evaluated by Leigh, and she too did extremely well,
picking up lots of good things about each presentation and coming up with
some recommendations.
It was left to Laurel to provide feedback on how well we all did against
the clock, before it was my turn to present the general evaluation, which I
managed to squeeze out within time so that we finished at precisely 1pm.
Well done everyone.
Best speaker: Lou
Best evaluator: Paula
Best table topic: Hannah
To: "Craig & Jan" <craig-jan.r@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Meeting report
Date: Friday, November 29, 2019 2:54 PM
Hi Craig,
Graeme kicked off our meeting today letting us all know we were in for a
treat, as Mehran was our Toastmaster for today’s meeting, and such was the
quality of his skill that we’d want him to be TM again next week.
Mehran certainly didn’t disappoint. He had spent plenty of time beforehand
planning this meeting, juggling many things to ensure our programme ran
smoothly. In fact with such competency at juggling I suggested he could
work in the circus!
I really appreciated his comments after each speaker, picking out special
things as in Lou’s speech about enjoying the little things.
New member Hannah, read the mission statement and did a good job. I
suggested to Mehran that he should arrange this before the meeting so the
reader could be familiar with the text and then use more eye contact.
Paula introduced Lou, building her up extremely well by mentioned not once,
but twice that she was a competition winner within the club.
And we were not disappointed by Lou’s speech, “Feed My Soul”. She displayed
all the skills she has developed in her time at Pania, as we learnt her
full name was Louise May “Not”. This was her first ice breaker under
Pathways and she recounted her first ice breaker and how much she had
improved. We found out that the things that feed her soul include her
grandchildren, her own children, followed by husband, friends, the ocean,
gardening and bird watching. Phew!! I don’t see how she could possibly have
time for anything else. A great speech where it was a pleasure to see how
far Lou has come.
Michael then introduced our second speaker, Sandy. Another good
introduction where we were told how Sandy needed to distill all her
knowledge into a 5 – 7 minute presentation.
Sandy’s knowledge and understanding certainly came to the fore with her
subject and how the number 42 “let’s go with it” attitude isn’t going to
work well for us. It was educational as well. We discovered sand is the
second greatest resource used in the world, and ten Google searches is
equivalent to a light bulb burning for one hour. Some very interesting
facts were presented that certainly got the audience thinking.
Craig ran the table topics session, with the theme of music.
We found out Hannah’s favourite solo artist is Elton John because of how he
sings and his flamboyance. In case you’re wondering, she’s definitely going
to his concert here in the Bay next year.
Peter’s most enjoyable musical is Handel’s Messiah, which he was privileged
to hear with a 300 strong combined choir on stage. Sounds like something
the rest of us need to experience.
Israel’s favourite song is Canta Corazon by Alejandro Fernandez (hopefully
I’ve got this right!). Apparently the best way to hear him is in the VIP
area after getting into a concert for free.
Craig, by keeping a crafty eye on time, was able to squeeze one more in and
so asked the same question of Sahar. Her favourite English speaking artist
is Taylor Swift, who, although being very girly, cheers her up and leaves
her feeling good (and isn’t that what music is all about?).
Paula evaluated Lou, pointing out all the many good things about her
presentation and delivered with plenty of enthusiasm. She did seem to have
a problem deciding the best position for the lectern?
Michael had plenty of commendations for Sandy, clearly showing he’d been
paying attention. I thought he should be prepared to offer recommendations,
although he did throw a sneaky one in anyway.
The table topics were evaluated by Leigh, and she too did extremely well,
picking up lots of good things about each presentation and coming up with
some recommendations.
It was left to Laurel to provide feedback on how well we all did against
the clock, before it was my turn to present the general evaluation, which I
managed to squeeze out within time so that we finished at precisely 1pm.
Well done everyone.
Best speaker: Lou
Best evaluator: Paula
Best table topic: Hannah
Saturday, 23 November 2019
'BELIEVE in IDENTIFYING YOUR LEADER'
How do you identify a leader?" "Believe!" These were the titles given by our
two excellent speakers at the Pania Toastmasters meeting on Thursday 21st
November. Read more
Saturday, 16 November 2019
"SHOOT TO KILL for a REBEL WITH A CAUSE!"
On the 19th of September I had the pleasure of having Anna chair our meeting for maybe the last time.
It was all rather sad. Guess who was chairing the meeting yesterday? It was Anna and what a meeting it was! Lots of fun, bubbly and plenty of animation. People were up and about enjoying the occasion. Anna even used words like "Jocund" thanks to Sandy our absent Grammarian. So did everyone else! Kees (a visiting toastmaster from overseas) read the mission statement with lots of enthusiasm. I could sense we were going to have a special meeting and that is exactly what happened! Read more.
Thursday, 31 October 2019
"HAPPINESS OF THE HEART WHEN YOUR RETIREMENT FUND IS FULL!"
Pania
Toastmasters Meeting Held on 31st 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.
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
"COMING HOME WITH PERSONALITY TYPES!"
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
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
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