Meeting 826 The Year of the Tiger

It was good to see three guests from last meeting return. We also welcomed Jessica for the first time.

The theme was "The Year of the Tiger."  and most segments related either to "tigers" or "Chinese New Year." 

Tony's Fortune Cookies provided some challenging Table Topics. 

Toastmaster Annette presented a lot of  interesting information.

 Ian presented a very constructive evaluation of a speech. It was his his first evaluation, I think and very well done. Tony also stepped out of his comfort zone and evaluated a Table Topic for the first time.

Best speech award went to Trish,

Best TableTopics, Sharyn D,

Best Evaluation, Leesa,

Best Contribution, Annette,

and the Encouragement Award to Ian.

The raffle was won by one of our guests, Chris.

St Valentines Meeting

It was a great meeting this week. Toastmaster Monica kept things flowing. The theme was "Love and all That Stuff." The Round Robin and Table Topics had a romantic theme and caused some hilarity.

Rhys presented his 3rd speech, titled "H20 to Go." It was very persuavive and of a much higher standard than one would expect for a 3rd speech.

Michael  gave an entertaining speech from the  Advanced manual, "Speaking to inform." He spoke about his experience as a radio announcer.

Dave's speech about recycling was voted the best speech of the evening.

We had 7 guests - Kate and June who came last time, (I'm glad we didn't frighten them away) Michelle, Maithri, Peter, Chris and Hugh. They all said they had enjoyed the meeting.

Dave is working on  his next speech