The meeting theme was "Superstitions." Eoin, with his Irish background was the perfect choice to act as Toastmaster for the evening. He had a supply of Irish myths and superstitions to segue through the segments of the meeting.
Peter, substituting for President Chris, welcomed first time guest Lisa and returning guest Karen as well as Josh (a former member who is rejoining our club.
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| Eoin |
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Peter
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| Josh |
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Jonathon
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Jonathon proposed a toast and also introduced the word for the evening, "Auspicious"
This was followed by Round Robin about superstitions. Everyone including guests took part.
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| Peter. Josh. Christiane, Paul. |
As Christiane, John and Helen will be competing in the speech contests at the Area 8 Conference on Saturday, Christiane and John delivered their speeches as a practice run and received feedback from everyone. (Helen was not present at the meeting.)
Narelle introduced Christiane's International Speech and led everyone in a Round Robin Evaluation.
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Christiane
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Paul introduced John's Humorous speech and led the evaluation session. Everyone had some good suggestions.
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John
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Marlene Introduced Christiane's Humorous speech and invited all to comment.
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| Christiane |
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| Marlene |
The Timekeeper was Arun.
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| Arun |
Gail presented a raffle which consisted of a book of Australian Ghost Stories, a spooky mug that changes when hot water is added and a box of Roses chocolates. The lucky winner was Arun.
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| Raffle |
A generous supper was provided by Christiane and Jill.
Amy had some superstition themed table topic questions for Christiane, Karen and Jill.
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| Amy |
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| Karen |
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| Christiane |
The Table Topics were evaluated by TJ.
Narelle presented a "Who am I?" quiz. Jill was quick to guess it was Kermit the frog.
Paul conducted a General Evaluation of the entire meeting.
Award winners were Paul (Best Evaluation,) John (Best Speech,) Eoin (Most Improved,) and Jill (Best Table Topic - not in photo.)
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| Award winners 28 Nov 2025 |
Our next meeting will be on the 11th November.
Area 8 Conference Saturday 1st November at the Corso, North Lakes. Contact Gail if you want to attend.
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