Einbinpin Festival 2019

Every year, have an information stall at the local Einbunpin Festival. This year it was organised by Eileen.

Christiane, Leesa, Eileen

Paul, Einbunpin Bunyip, Christiane

Stephen, Leesa, Paul

Marlene, Trish, Einbunpin Bunyip

John & Trish

Peter, John & Trish (getting too shady for clear photos)

 Packing up. How do we dismantle  this?

Meeting 1042 "School Days"

It was a light-hearted meeting, full of fun. Sergeant at Arms Darryl called the meeting to order and recited the Toastmasters Mission Statement from memory. He then set the the tone of the meeting with a short joke.

Darryl

Gail

President Gail welcomed guests Maria, Gokul, Torben and Adrian and inducted new members Jakob and Andrea.

Marlene was Toastmaster for the evening and since the theme was "School Days," she dressed for the part in a mortar board hat and gown.

Marlene

Monica presented a toast to "Old school days."

Darryl presented the word for the evening "Assiduous," meaning showing great care and attention.

Jakob was Round Robin Master and he asked each member to share their best or worst memory from their school days. This resulted in some funny stories.

Monica

Jakob

There were three prepared speeches. Peter's speech "The Cell" was accompanied by soundless moving pictures on the screen to tell the amazing story of cells.

His speech was evaluated by Christiane.

Peter

Christiane

John's speech "Routes to Peace" was a passionate call to action. It completed his Pathways Level 1.
It was evaluated by Annette.

John

Annette

Stephen spoke on "Assertiveness," and used some good body language to demonstrate how to deal with people.

Trevor evaluated Stephen's speech.

Stephen

Trevor

Paul's raffle was chocolate and wine. It was won by Eileen.

Time keeper Casey reported that we were running over time, so the supper break was shortened to 10 minutes.

Paul

Casey

The supper was provided by Marlene & Annette.

Supper break

Darryl called the meeting back to order with another short funny joke.

Trish had prepared Table Topics related to the School theme and selected Gokul, Andrea, Paul, Trevor, Monica and Annette to give a brief impromptu speech..

Trish

Gokul - "Favourite School Subject."

Andrea - "What book was hard to read at school?"

Paul - "Are co-ed schools better?

Trevor - "My teacher glows in the dark"

Monica - "School uniforms"

Annette - "Home schooling a good thing?"

The Table Topics were evaluated by Eileen and Casey.

Eileen

Casey

Gail presented an Educational Session about club contests and encouraged members to take part in the  contests which will be held in August and September.

Gail

Trish

Grammarian Trish commented on descriptive words and phrases used during the evening. She commented on the over use of  the word "really." And she suggested we avoid using the negative word "but" when giving an evaluation.

Jonathon

Jonathon had mostly commendations in his General Evaluation of the entire meeting.

The evening's awards went to Jakob and Andrea (Most Improved,) John (Best speech,) and Annette (Best Table Topic and Best Evaluation).

Award winners 23rd July 2019

As there are 5 Tuesday in July, it will be 3 weeks until next meeting on the 13th August. We will be celebrating our club's 45th birthday that night with a special supper.

Contests will be held on the 27th August.

Meanwhile, some of us will be at our information stall at the Einbunpin Festival this Sunday, 28th July. See you there!

Club Officer Training 2019

Our new club officers attended the  training day on Saturday to learn more about the roles they have taken on for the year. It was also  an opportunity to meet up with old and new friends from other Toastmasters Clubs . 

Gail, Eileen, Paul, Leesa  & Stephen with Carol,
a past member of our club, but now president of Caboolture TM.

It was a very informative and inspiring day for all. 

District 69 Alana Beale presented "Leading the club to success."

Leesa's raffle prize - a painting by Adi Strickland

Thanks to Leesa for the photos.

Meeting 1041 "Christmas in July"

It was our first meeting for the  new Toastmasters year 2019 - 2020.  New President Gail welcomed all to the meeting and handed control to Toastmaster of the Evening, Christiane.

Guests were Adrian, Maria and Sanford.

Gail

Christiane

The theme was "Christmas in July," and Christiane was able to tell us of her first experience of  an Australian Christmas in July and some other interesting stories about Christmas customs.

Eileen proposed a toast to "The Spirit of Christmas." Word Master Stephen introduced the word "Atmosphere."

Eileen

Stephen

Gail presented the Round Robin segment, where each person spoke for 20 seconds. Her theme was "My Most Uncomfortable Christmas."

Speeches

Paul presented a speech about leadership styles and compared the leadership of people he had worked with, before describing his own leadership style.  His speech was evaluated by Chris.

Paul

Chris

The purpose of Trish's speech "Leaving a Legacy" was to inspire her audience, which she did by urging us to write down stories for future  generations to read. Her speech was evaluated by Peter.

Trish

Peter

Trevor's speech "Supply and Demand" was a project from "The Entertaining Speaker" Manual.

It was an amusing account of farming in Thailand. It was evaluated by Blake.

Trevor

Blake

Raffle

Leesa presented her raffle (wine and Scratchit tickets) with a flourish and  a smattering of Italian.
The lucky winner was Annette.

Leesa

After supper provided by Marlene, a short business session was chaired by Leanne. 

Leanne

John T conducted the Table Topics session - mostly with a Christmas theme.  (Sorry I didn't get a photo of John.)

Stephen
Christmas too commercialised?

Adrian
Perfect place to spend Christmas.

Gail
 Is July  Brisbane's worst month?

Carmy
Is it essential that Qld wins State of Orign  tomorrow night?

Leesa
Do we need to go back to moon again?

Eileen
Organise celebrity Christmas dinner.

Blake
Is obese Santa appropriate role model?

Darryl
Caller for State of Orign. 

Table Topics Evaluation

Annette and Monica had some good advice for Table Topics participants.

Annette

Monica

Time Keeper

Marlene reported that we were 2 minutes ahead of time. (And forgot to turn off the red light!)

Marlene (photo by Leesa) 

General Evaluation

Darryl gave a comprehensive evaluation of the entire evening.

Darryl

Awards
President Gail presented the evening's awards to Blake (Best Table Topic,) Annette (Best Evaluation,) Trish (Best Speech,) and Adrian (Most Improved).

Award winners 9 July 2019

Next meeting 23rd July