Meeting 1206 "The Power of Curiosity."

We were delighted to welcome return guests Helen & Bob, Aiden. Also Agi who is joining our club.

Our Club president Jonathon presented Erin with a ribbon for completing Level One in her Pathways Path.

Jonathon and Erin

Paul was Toastmaster for the meeting.

Paul

Helen presented a Toast "To participation." 

Helen

Arun introduced the word "Resilient." It was used the most times by Helen, with Erin a close second.

Arun

John Introduced the Round Robin, "Are you curious?" 

Arun's speech was titled "Networking. Learning from Mistakes." It was evaluated by Jill.

Arun

John presented his Humorous contest speech and received feedback which was led by Christiane.

John

Narelle's speech "Equipment Proposal" was evaluated by Maddy.

Maddy

Chris was Timekeeper.

Jill's raffle, a bag of pizza ingredients and wine was won by Gail.

Jill's raffle prize

Christiane and John provided a delicious supper.

Jonathon presented the Table Topics that Marlene had prepared, calling on John, Maddy, Aiden (guest), Peter, Helen (Guest) and Erin.

The Table Topic questions were:

1. "Has someone ever given you bad advice?"

2. "The last time you tried something new."

3. "Has your greatest fear ever come true?"

4. "How do you define success?"

5. "Which activities make you lose track of time?"

6. "Most beloved childhood memory."

They were evaluated by Chris and Paul.

Chris

Paul

Christiane conducted a "Who am I?" quiz. No one guessed it was Chris Walker, although they guessed it was from the TV show, "Sale of the Century."

Christiane

 Narelle presented a General Evaluation of the meeting with some helpful suggestions for improvement.

The evening's awards went to John (Best Speaker,) Jill (Best Evaluator - not in photo,) Erin (Best Table Topic,) Arun, Erin and Jill (Tied for Most Improved.)

Award winners 22nd Sept 2026

Next Meeting: Tuesday, 13th October. (Second Tuesday in October) There will be an extra week between meetings because there were 5 Tuesdays in September.

Meeting 1205 Table Topics and Humorous Speech Contests

 Our Contestants were well supported by an enthusiastic audience, including guests Agi, Aaron, Aiden, Helen and Bob.  

Toastmaster Jonathon briefed the contestants to ensure that they were well prepared 

Table Topics Briefing.

Table Topics contestants were John, Peter, Helen, Arun, Christiane and Narelle. They were ushered outside and brought into the room one at a time to answer the topic. "What is the one simple thing that makes life better."

The place getters were: 

First Place: John 

Second Place: Narelle 

Third Place : Christiane

Narelle 2nd, John 1st, Christiane 3rd.

After a break for a delicious supper provided by Chris and Christiane, the Humorous Speech contest took place. Contestants were Christiane, Peter, John and Helen.

 Place getters were:

 First Place: John

Second Place: Christiane

Third Place: Peter

Peter 3rd, John 2nd, Christiane 2nd.

All the contestants with Toastmaster Jonathon

A big thankyou to the judges from other Toastmasters Clubs who gave their time and expertise to make our contest possible. Chief Judge Jenny, Chris, Area Director Mary, Maria and Mark.

Judges

Our club members who acted as Timers, Sergeant at Arms and Ballot Counters were Maddy, Carmy, Trish, Chris, Liz, and Marlene.

Maddy supplied a popular raffle, a $50 voucher for a meal at a local cafe. It was won by Chris.

Our next meeting will be a "normal" meeting on Tuesday 22nd September followed by an Evaluation and International Speech contest on the 13th October.

Don't forget, Semi Annual fees are due this month to be paid before our next meeting. If you can't find   Arun's email that he sent with the bank details, send a message to our club's email address for information. toastmasters.int.sandgate@gmail.com