Meeting 1184 "Nature"

 Maddy handled her first time role of Toastmaster with great aplomb. She had chosen the theme for the meeting, "Nature."

President Chris welcomed everyone, including our guests Karen and Josh. Chris also proposed a toast to "Our waterways."

Maddy 

Chris

Word Master Narelle gave us the word "Brown." It was used many times during the evening.

Trish presented the Round Robin asking for our thoughts on "wisdom and nature."

Jonathon, Trish and Paul

Jonathon gave an explanation and helpful tips on the Evaluation contest which will be held next meeting.

Jonathon

Erin's moving Icebreaker speech "The Power of the Voice." was evaluated by Chris.

Erin

Helen presented a Level 3 speech "A Work in Progress." in the Presentation Mastery path. It was evaluated by Christiane.

  

Helen

The Timer was Trish.

Jill provided a raffle consisting of a Lego set, tic-tacs, car freshener, & voucher for a car wash.  It was won by Trish.

Jill's Raffle

Supper was provided by Narelle and Trish.

Chatting over supper

As well as being a member of our club, Gail is also our Area Director. She had some information about the forthcoming Area Conference and other matters.

Chris followed up with a talk about our succession plan for the next Toastmaster year and called for volunteers for the (non binding) future executive roles.

 

Gail- Area Director

Chris

Table Topics Master Helen called on Narelle, Josh, Jill, Karen, TJ. and Paul to give a 2-minute impromptu speech on the topics she had chosen.

Helen

 

The topics (paraphrased) were:

What can animals teach us about humans?

How much do you love Camping?

Nature best therapist

Should humans rewild themselves?

If nature could speak, what would it say to us?

Birds - majestic creatures or feathered jerks?

Paul took longer than his allotted 2 minutes to tell his very funny story about being attacked by a Butcher bird.

The table topics were evaluated by Marlene and Gail.

Marlene

Gail

Chris gave a General Evaluation of all that had not already been evaluated. 

The award winners of the evening were Karen (Best Table Topic,) Erin (Best Speech and Most Improved) and Chris (Best Evaluation.)

Karen, Erin and Chris

Since there are 5 Tuesdays in September, it will be 3 weeks until our next meeting on the 14th October. (No meeting on the 5th week this time.)

Next meeting will be our International Speech and Evaluation Contest. (There is still room for more contestants!) Winners will go on to compete at the Area Conference at North Lakes on the 1st November.