Meeting 1088 - Love for Languages

 Sergeant at Arms Josh promptly opened the Meeting at 7pm and President Trish welcomed guests Raf and Natalie.

Trish

Toastmaster for the evening was Gokul, with his well chosen theme. Gokul told us of his multi-lingual skills and provided a range of informative snippets about languages, such as a polyglot is a person who masters many languages and the English language has 750,000 words.

Gokul

The Toast was presented by Paul - and was to "The Love of Languages", after his confession that other than English, languages escape him.

Paul

Dana

Dana introduced the Word "Genki" and explained its origin. Genki is Japanese and there is apparently no equivalent word in the English language. It means original spirit or life force. We learned the phrase Ogenki desu ka and tried to use this during the Meeting.

Peter

Round Robin by Peter B. asked the question "What was your favourite language to learn in high school?" Answers were varied with many not enjoying their foray into anything other than English.

Speech 1 presented by J.P. was entitled "Unfinished Business" and was evaluated by Marlene.

J.P.

Marlene

Speech 2 by Arun was entitled "Why Am I here" and was evaluated by Dan.

Arun

Dan

Timers on the program were Monica and Ted who ably shared the role.

The Raffle was promoted by Trish with the winner an excited Hazel.

A short Business Session was conducted by Trish when she announced the District 69 recently ratified changes: In precis -  

1. Toastmasters speech contests should be face-to-face rather than by Zoom. 

2. The 4 Contests will be International Speech, Humourous Speech, Evaluation and Table Topics. Tall Tall Tales will not be included.

Speech 3 by Narelle was titled "A little bit about me and why I joined Toastmasters". This was evaluated by Darryl.

Narelle

Darryl

Congratulations to all 3 Members for the above speeches

which were presented as their Ice Breakers.

Speech 4 was presented by Carmy and entitled "The Path to Becoming Me". The Evaluator was Christiane.

Carmy

Christiane

Peter D. conducted the Table Topics session, with questions on language and other topics. The participants were Natalie, Christiane, Paul, Hazel and Marlene.

Peter

Hazel

Natalie

General Evaluator Leanne gave us valuable suggestions for advancement with many good points and others to work on.

Leanne

Awards:

Best Speech - J.P., Best Evaluator - Liz, Best Table Topic - Marlene, Most Improved - Arun.

J.P., Marlene, Liz and Arun

Congratulations to all and especially Gokul for his interesting information about language, and also the newer Members who presented their Ice Breakers. Apologies to Josh, Monica and Ted for omission of photos.

Meeting 1087 - The Olympics

Tony

 The new Executive took charge of their roles and Josh called the Meeting to order. President Trish welcomed guests Kylie, Natalie and Bernadette. Then new Member Peter's induction was conducted and Executive position badges were presented.

Josh

Trish

Toastmaster Tony took control and had many and varied (and humourous) snippets about the ancient and modern Olympics. This kept keen interest between segments and enlightened our knowledge of the Games.

Arun present the Toast - to "All Olympians", and paid tribute also to those who work behind the scenes.

Arun

The Word of the night was of course "Olympian", and interesting information about the word was prepared by Narelle (who was absent) and presented by Christiane.

Christiane

Table Topic segment was handled very ably by Monica. Christiane, Josh, J.P, Arun, Gail and Trish all answered the topics which gave the speakers the opportunity to speak for or against.

Monica

Gail

These were evaluated by Dan and Leanne.

Dan

Leanne

Speech 1 by Ted was his Ice Breaker, and was titled "Colour my World". Gokul was the evaluator.

Ted

Gokul

The Raffle was sold to us by Christiane, and the winner was Marlene.

Timer Darryl was kept on his toes keeping us on time, and did an admirable job.

Dana presented Speech 2 entitled "It's not My Fault". This was evaluated by Marlene.

Dana

Marlene

Speech 3 by Christiane entitled "Too many Taxing Tasks at Tomi" was evaluated by Liz.

Liz

JP for the first time presented the Grammarian segment, and found many gems of speech used during the Meeting.

JP

The General Evaluation was very ably presented by Hazel. It was very thorough and well balanced with praise and areas which in her opinion could improve. This was her first time in the role of General Evaluator.

Hazel

Awards: Best Speech - jointly by Dana and Ted, Best Evaluator - jointly by Dan and Liz, Best Table Topic - Christiane, Most Improved - Arun. Gold medal winners all!

Christiane, Arun, Dan, Liz, Dana and Ted