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Wednesday 27 July 2016

Meeting 972 "Up in the Air"


 

President Steve
Toastmaster Liz

It was Steve's first meeting as our new president.

The theme was "Up in the Air" and everyone was in high spirits. Toastmaster Liz had prepared snippets of information covering hot air balloons, aeroplanes, and space travel.

Kirsty W
Karen
 Kirsty W  spoke about  planes that have gone missing and proposed a toast to the brave pilots who continue to go up in the air.

Karen had a challenge for us with her word "polymath," which is a person who knows a lot about a lot of subjects. 

Darryl during Round Robin
Tim's Round Robin topic was "What was your most memorable experience up in the air?" Some people got carried away with the topic.

There were two prepared speeches.

Christiane
Christiane had recently performed a thorough research before buying  a new heater, and in her speech, "This is a warm up," she explained how different types of heat work and why she bought a radiant heater.

Annette
Annette T used a range of facial expressions, body language and vocal variety to tell about an encounter with the law in her speech, "Innocent"

The speech evaluators were Rose and Darryl.

Rose
Darryl

Leesa was Time Keeper.

Supper time - provided by Kirsty W

 Jim's Table Topics followed the theme. "Up in the Air." The lucky participants were Kirsty O, Karen, Nick, Tim, Steve, Dave Annette W, and Leesa.

Kirsty "Worst flight experience"
TT Master Jim

Karen  " looking down from air"
Nick "most exciting trip"


Tim "sky diving"
Steve "hot air ballon"

Dave "magnificent men"

Annette W "up in the air"
Leesa "fly like a bird"

The Table Topics were evaluated by Reza and Nick.

Reza

Nick
Grammarian Annette said the use of language during the meeting was exemplary but she had counted many um's and ah's - particularly during the Round Robin.

Kirsty O collected some fines with her Listening Quiz.

Kirsty O
Steve told a joke about a plane missing an engine.

In the absence of a third scheduled speech, Dave delivered an impromptu  review of a book he has enjoyed, "The Invention of Nature," by Andrea Wulf.  about German Naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt.

Dave

Marlene's raffle, a bottle of wine and chocolates was won by Annette T.

Steve had some good points for improvement in his General Evaluation.

 The award winners of the evening were Liz (Best Contribution,) Rose (Best Evuation,) Annette T (Best Speech,) Nick (Personal Best,) and Steve (Best Table Topic.)

Winners 26 July 2016
Next meeting 9th August. The theme will be "Trains."

See you at the Einbunpin Festival next Sunday. 31st July. 


Monday 18 July 2016

Meeting 971 "Paint the Town Red"


 Trish is back from San Francisco with her  trophies. Gold Winner in the 2016 Women World Awards Woman of the Year - Mentor or Coach of the Year and Bronze Winner in the 2016 Women World Awards Female Entrepreneur of the Year.


It was a night to "Paint the Town Red"  Some made an extra effort by dressing in red.

Rose in red
In the absence of our new President Steve,  Past President John T welcomed our guests Allan from Peninsula Toastmasters, and first time visitors, Kylie and Chris.
John T

Nick set the scene by proposing a toast to "fun and relaxing times."
Wordmaster Paul chose the word, "Celebrate."
 The Toastmaster of the evening was Marlene.

There were three prepared speeches.

Karen presented her Icebreaker Speech and spoke about  the "Places of Safety" she had found during her life, and concluded with the thought that the real place of safety lies within ourselves.

Her speech was evaluated by Darryl.
Karen
Darryl

Jim's speech (his sixth) was "One Man's Junk," an amusing observation on our current local Kerbside Collection.
  It was evaluated by Wendy.
Jim
Wendy

 Another Icebreaker "My Way" was presented by Leanne, who delighted her audience by endiing her speech with a rendition of the song, "My Way."

Leanne's speech was evaluated by Trish.

Leanne
Trish

Annette created an air of mystery with her raffle. She wouldn't reveal what it was, but assured us that it was something we wanted.  Leesa was the lucky winner and found it was a sheet of  Scratch-it cards.

Annette
Leesa won raffle
After supper, provided by Carmy, John T chaired a brief Business Session.

John T
 Table Topics Master Leesa had topics for Liz, Nick, Allan, Rose, Paul, Tim, Carmy and Dave.

Leesa
 
Liz

Nick

Allan

Rose



Paul
Tim


Carmy
Dave

Table Topics Evaluators were Christiane and Kirsty O. It was the first time in that role for both of them.

Chritiane

Kirsty O

Grammarian Rose commented on our use of words,  Liz conducted a Listening Quiz, and General Evaluator Jonathon had some tips on improving the meeting.

Liz
Jonathon

The evening's awards went to Marlene (Best Contribution,) Leanne (Best Speech, and Personal Best) Allan (Best Table Topic,) and Wendy (Best Evaluation,) and Karen (Personal Best)

Award winners 12th July 2016
 Next meeting 26th July. The theme is "Up in the Air."

Coming up: 31st July. Our information Stall at the Einbunpin Festival. 

23rd August. Humorous Speech Contest.