Meeting 882 "Go for Gold"

President Annette & Area Gov Denise

We were pleased to welcome our new Area Governor Denise to our meeting, as well as our other visitors, Alan, Jack and Pauline.

Liz We

Liz We was Toastmaster for the evening. She kept us entertained with interesting facts about the Olympics.

The theme was "Go for Gold." so John S had chosen the word "Carat,"  which Melissa presented on John's behalf.

To practise for the contests next month, the Table Topics were 2 minutes each instead of our usual 90 seconds. We also had Instant Evaluations after each Topic instead of an assigned TT Evaluator. Table Topics Master Marlene called on Annette, Inge and June to answer her topics, "Pure gold need not fear the furnace," "What is your greatest achievement and what effort did you have to put into it" and "Could someone you know be described as having a heart of gold?" The evaluators were Liz Wo, Kylie and Robert.

Dave presented the next 3 Table Topics and asked Melissa, Sharyn and Kerry, "Which Australian athelete do you think will win at the Olympics?"
"Why is gold so expensive?" and "What makes gold such a desirable object?"  These were evaluated by Ernie, Maureen, and Del.

Amanda

In her Icebreaker speech, Amanda shared some amusing incidents from her life. We loved her humour.

Evaluator  John T had some encouraging comments for Amanda.

Ernie presented a speech "The Voice." which contained a lot of useful tips. It was evaluated by Kerry. It was hard to believe this was Kerry's first evaluation.

Ernie

Kerry

Jennine

Jennine's speech was "Caring for your Handknits." We will know think twice before throwing all our woollies into the washing machine! It was her 4th speech and was evaluated by Annette.

We all took time to fill in a Moment of Truth Survey.

Moment of Truth

Grammarian Maureen commented on word usage throughout the evening and Del summed up the meeting in her General Evaluation.

Marueen

Del

Annette wins raffle

Kylie's raffle (golden candles, etc.) was won by Annette.

Annette presented the evenings awards to Jennine (Best Speech,) Amanda (Personal Best,) Liz We (Best Contribution,) Kerry (Best Evaluator - tied with Annette) and Sharyn (Best Table Topic.)  Sorry, forgot to get Annette in the photo!


Remember there will be three weeks till the next meeting, since there are 5 Tuesdays in July. Next meeting 14th August. The theme will be "The Ekka."