Christmas Break Up 2015

Food, fun and festivity were the order of the evening. The pictures will tell the story.

Merry Christmas to all. Meetings will resume 27th January 2015.

Peter V - O Holy Night....

Nicole

Sharyn

Marlene

Peter D

Leesa & Annette

Jim & Nick

Terry

Tim & Dave

John T

Area Gov Jenny

Darryl

Doris, Jenny, Trish Jim

Amanda

Jonathon, Sharyn, Nicole

Peter V

Liz  

Meeting 934 "Let's have a Debate"

"Winning is more important than participation" was the topic for debate. The teams were well prepared.

Affirmative Team - Tim Liz & Peter

Negative Team - Darryl,  Dave & Maureen

The competition was fierce.

Tim

Darryl

Peter

Maureen

Liz

Dave

Members of the audience were engrossed.

Peter D, Sharyn, Rose

The adjudicators had a difficult task.

Adjudicators - Nicole, Trish , John S.

And the verdict was ....

The Affirmative won! Congratulations, Liz, Peter & Tim! 

All participants had a good time.

VPE John T is full of ideas. Another new segment was "Get Up on Your Soapbox."  Each participant spoke for 2 minutes.

Toastmaster John T

Peter D    "Honking horns" 

Leesa "Rude Cyclists"

Terry "Believe in  Santa"

Reza " Mobile Phones"

Amanda - Evaluator

 Reza presented the Round Robin  and asked "What is your greatest debating victory?"
                   

Raffle Master Jim

Dave won Jim's raffle. It was 2 bottles of wine.

Jonathon enthralled his audience with the story of Icarus - a folk story project from the Story Telling Manual.

Jonathon

Evaluator Annette demonstrated how Jonathon had used body language.

Annette

Rose and Reza conducted a quiz to see how well everyone had listened.

Marlene presented the General Evaluation.

Nick collected the votes.

 Collecting Votes.

Awards for the evening went to John T (Best Contribution,) Jonathon (Best Speech,) Annette (Best Evaluation,) and Reza (Personal Best.)

Award winners

We were thrilled to see our past president Liz We at our meeting. Liz will soon be returning to England. 

Nicole, Liz We, Maureen

Also good to see guests Lisa (who has decided to join our club, ) Jean and Suzanne. 

Our Christmas Break Up Dinner is on Tuesday, 9th December. If you haven't paid for your meal, contact Nicole for details on how to make a Direct Debit. or email sgatetm@gmail.com

Don't forget to bring a Secret Santa gift to swap and something for the Christmas Hamper Raffle.

Toastmasters can be Authors too.

Most if our members will remember Kylie, who was a vital member of our club a while back.

Kylie is now living in Tonga and she has written and published a book full of helpful advice to anyone who is considering relocating. Visit Kylie's website healthwellnessrevolution.com// for more information.

Meeting 933 "Promoting Peace."

Congratulations Sharyn!

Past Area 8 Gov Sharyn & Present Area 8 Gov Jenny

Area Governor Jenny paid our club a special visit and presented Sharyn (who was Area Governor last year) with a certificate for achieving Select Distinguished Area during her time as Area Governor. This award is based on the performance of the clubs in the Area.

Welcome to new member, Reza!

Nicole inducted Reza

Reza's mentor will be Dave.

Toastmaster Jim

Jim was Toastmaster for the first time and appeared very confident. As it was Remembrance Day, the meeting theme was Promoting Peace. Jim had researched a lot of information which he shared with us.

Peter V  proposed the toast

Nick helped Wordmaster Reza

  Reza's word was "Irenic," meaning "Promoting peace"


Round Robin Master Nick asked, "What endangers world peace?" Some of the answers were nuclear armament, greed, power, lack of communication, intolerance,lack of respect etc.

Marlene's Table Topics also followed the theme of promoting peace. Peter D, Darryl, Nick and Jenny were called on to speak about "The neighbours from hell," "Road Rage," Sibling Rivalry," and "Violent Video Games."

Peter D

Darryl

Jenny

Nick

They were evaluated by Rose.

Rose

Nicole presented her 9th speech from the Competent Communicator Manual and spoke about "Active Listening."

Nicole

 It was evaluated by Sharyn.

Sharyn

Maureen

Maureen presented a review of The Toastmasters Magazine and encouraged us to read the helpful articles it contains.

Tim presented a review on the book "The Last Ark".

Tim

Timekeeper D'sley

Time for a break

Supper was provided by Dave & Peter V.

Amanda presented a speech on New Years Resolutions and was evaluated by Liz.

Amanda

Liz

Chairman Leesa

Leesa chaired the Business Session, which proved to be an exercise in moving and amending motions. The main item under discussion was the proposal to do away with collecting meeting fees at each meeting, and to raise the semi annual fees to include the meeting fees.

For Show and Tell, Terry displayed a mystery object which someone finally guessed was a staple remover.

Terry

John T

John T was General Evaluator.

Peter D's raffle, a DVD set "Nature of Australia" was won by Leesa.

Raffle Master Peter D

The evenings awards went to Jim (Best Contribution,) Darryl (Best Table Topic,) Nicole (Best Speech,) Liz ( Best Evaluator,) and Amanda ( Personal Best.)

Winners 11 Nov 2014

Next meeting we'll have a Debate and a "Get up on your Soapbox" segment. Don't forget to bring your money for our Christmas Break Up Dinner which will be held at the following meeting.