Welcome to our two new members, Gokul and Dan, who were inducted at our meeting by president Gail.
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| Gokul, & Dan inducted by Gail |
Toastmaster for the evening was Paul, who explained that the "Octoberfest" festival had originally been a celebration of the wedding of Bavaria's Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese.
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| Paul |
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| Chris |
The word for the evening "Kaput" meaning broken or useless was chosen by Chris,
Since Octoberfest is very popular in Germany, Dan proposed a toast to" German Culture."
Gokul conducted the Round Robin inviting everyone to speak for 20 seconds about a festival they had attended.
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| Dan |
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| Gokul |
There were three prepared speeches, all featuring interesting personal experiences. Gail spoke about mentors that she'd had in her early teaching career.
Her speech was evaluated by Blake.
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| Gail |
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| Blake |
John's speech on conversational styles was also based on his teaching experiences. He told how his gregarious jovial style did not go down well with an authoritarian head teacher.
The speech was evaluated by Jonathon.
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| John |
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| Jonathon |
Christiane presented her Pathways Icebreaker speech and told how she had found the celebration of Christmas very different from what she was used to when she first emigrated to Australia.
Her speech was evaluated by Darryl.
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| Christiane |
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| Darryl |
Darryl had brought a selection of alcoholic drinks - and a box of chocolates for the raffle. It was won by Annette, who is a teetotaller, but said she knew where to put them to good use.
Timekeeper Vaughan gave his report. Time to take a break and enjoy the supper provided by Stephen.
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| Darryl - raffle |
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| Vaughan |
The Business Session was chaired by Stephen. The main item discussed was the Area Conference to be held at North Lakes in November.
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| Stephen - Chairman |
Table Topics Master Carmy had topics for Monica, Dan, Gokul, Steve, Chris, Eileen, Peter and Paul.
Unfortunately, the photographer was engrossed in the topics and forgot to take more than a few photos.
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| Carmy |
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| Monica |
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| Dan |
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| Gokul |
The Table Topics were evaluated by Casey and Annette.
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| Casey |
Eileen presented a Soap Box segment and complained about people who use mobile phones when driving or when stopped at traffic lights, often causing accidents.
Grammarian Peter reported some descriptive use of words and gave suggestions for avoiding "filler" words.
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| Eileen |
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| Peter |
Trish gave a very comprehensive evaluation of the meeting. One of the things she mentioned was to avoid the use of the word "but" in evaluations as it negates the positive points.
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| Trish |
President Gail presented the evenings awards to Gokul (Best Table Topic and Most Improved), John (Best Speech), and Jonathon (Best Evaluation).
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| Award winners 8th Oct 2019 |
Next meeting Tuesday, 22nd October.
Glad to be back!
ReplyDeleteGreat research, Paul. It was so interesting to hear about the history of Octoberfest as well as the rules in Germany allowing the consumption of alcohol of 14+ year olds if the adult allows it. How interesting and scary at the same time.