Sandgate Toastmasters demonstrated how versatile they can be at our "Draw" meeting. No one (apart from the prepared speakers) knew what role they would be performing until the beginning of the meeting.
In the absence of our Sergeant at Arms, Marlene called the meeting to order and handed control to our stand in President Peter.
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| Marlene |
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| Peter |
Narelle took on the role of Toastmaster. She kept the meeting running smoothly with jokes and quotes between meeting segments.
Eoin proposed a toast to "Being versatile in a world of uncertainty."
Arun introduced the word of the evening "Adaptable."
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| Eoin |
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| Arun |
Round Robin Master Trevor posed a controversial question "Did the recent trip to the far side of the moon really happen or was it a hoax?" There were some varied and mostly humorous answers.
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| Trevor |
There were four prepared speeches. Peter's speech "Mentors, Kitesurfing and others" was a Presentation Mastery project on mentoring. It was evaluated by Narelle.
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| Peter |
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| Peter |
Eoin used body plenty language in his speech "Learn to Fly" as he told about parachuting. Paul was the evaluator.
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| Eoin |
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| Paul |
Trish's moving speech was a Level 3 Motivational project, titled "The Ripple Effect."
It was evaluated by Narelle.
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| Trish |
Jonathon was the timekeeper.
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| Jonathon and Paul |
Christiane presented a mystery raffle. Peter won it and revealed that it was a Clever Chef non stick cooker.
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| Jonathon buying raffle tickets from Christiane |
Trish and Arun provided a delicious supper.
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| Supper |
Table Topics were presented by Paul, who called on Peter, Arun, Jonathon, Christiane, Jill and Trevor to give an impromptu 2 minute answer to his questions.
They were evaluated by Jill and Marlene.
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| Peter |
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| Arun |
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| Christiane |
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| Jonathon |
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| Trevor |
A Soap Box rant was delivered by Trevor who spoke vehemently about AI and declared that he will never sit in a massage chair in case it thinks it is a potato masher!
The General Evaluation was conducted by Trish and a very humorous Listening Quiz was presented by Paul.
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| Award winners 14th April Narelle, Eoin and Jill not in photo. |
The evening's awards went to:
Jonathon, Best Table Topic
Peter Trish and Eoin tied for Best Speech.
Narelle and Trish tied for Best Evaluation.
Jill and Eoin tied for Most Improved.
Next meeting 28th April.
Don't forget to pay your Semi-Annual fees if you haven't already done so.
Club Officer Elections will be conducted in May. What role are you going to take on?
