Sergeant at Arms Josh promptly opened the Meeting at 7pm and President Trish welcomed guests Raf and Natalie.
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| 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.
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| Gokul |
The Toast was presented by Paul - and was to "The Love of Languages", after his confession that other than English, languages escape him.
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| Paul |
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| 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.
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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.
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| J.P. |
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| Marlene |
Speech 2 by Arun was entitled "Why Am I here" and was evaluated by Dan.
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| Arun |
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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.
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| Narelle |
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| 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.
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| Carmy |
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| Christiane |
Peter D. conducted the Table Topics session, with questions on language and other topics. The participants were Natalie, Christiane, Paul, Hazel and Marlene.
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| Peter |
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| Hazel |
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| Natalie |
General Evaluator Leanne gave us valuable suggestions for advancement with many good points and others to work on.
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Awards:
Best Speech - J.P., Best Evaluator - Liz, Best Table Topic - Marlene, Most Improved - Arun.
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| 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.
Another fun evening! I have to fully agree with Liz that Gokul presented very interesting facts about languages. It was also great to see which languages members walked into (and straight out again). I have to differ with Liz though on the comment in Round Robin: Enjoying English wasn't discussed. But yes, many high school language "skills" have been lost (and not enjoyed).
ReplyDeleteAll three Ice Breakers were remarkable and I'm looking forward to more since we have a few new members which are in line for Ice Breakers! Especially Arun's speech resonated with me because of the negative attitude of his grandfather.