Meeting 951 "Sports and Sports People"

Darryl

Sports Enthusiast Darryl was in his element as Toastmaster. There were no awkward pauses between segments as Darryl had a continuous supply of  information, stories and jokes abut sporting heroes.

The jokes were appreciated.



That was a funny joke

another one

Nick

Nick chose the word "Commitment" as word of the evening.

Tammy

Harry

Tammy received a standing ovation for her Icebreaker Speech "It's a Dog's Life." She didn't need to use notes as she told us about the special dogs in her life.

It was evaluated by Harry.

Lisa

Jonathon

Lisa presented her second speech. and told us how we can use some simple steps to change our thinking.

Her speech was evaluated by Jonathon. 

John T

Marlene

John T's Impromptu Speech "My Country - Does the Rhyme live up to the Reality?" was evaluated by Marlene.

Dave

Chairman Dave kept the Business Session under control and finished on time.

Table Topics Master Reza was unable to attend, but he had sent his topics, which were presented by Nicole and Jim.  The participants were Jonathon, Lisa, Tim, Darryl, Nick and Annette

Nicole & Jim

 Jonathon - Champion Snufflepopper

Lisa - Inventor of Underwater Football

Tim -Dinner with a Sport Star

Darryl -motivational team leader

Nick - sporting hero

Annette - lessons from sport

The Table Topics were evaluated by Peter and Leesa.

Peter

Leesa

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Sharyn

Sharyn's Raffle (a bag of goodies) was won by Nicole.

Sharyn also provided supper.

JIm

Jim Conducted a Listening Quiz and collected some fines to swell the coffers.

 Grammarian Annette warned against some common grammatical errors.

Rose

Rose conducted a thorough General Evaluation of the entire meeting.

High Five

At the end of the meeting, Darryl ran around the room giving everyone a high five.

Our guests Annette and William said they had enjoyed the meeting.

 Tammy won the award for best speech, but she had to leave early and missed being in the photo.

Other winners were Nick (Personal Best,) Darrel (Best Contribution,) and Jonathon (Best Table Topic and also Best Evaluation) 

Winners 8 Sept



Meeting 950 TT and Humorous Contests

Annette, Steve, Liz and Peter

Congratulations to the winners of the Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests.

The Table Topic was "If you could be any age for one week, what age would you choose and why?"

The contestants, Dave, Amanda, Lisa, Steve, Annette and Darryl all had a thought provoking or amusing answer. The winner was Annette, with Steve second.

The Humorous contest was entertaining with some really funny speeches. The winner, Liz took us back into the past with her speech "Enough to Make your Hair Curl." while Peter's speech "I think Therefore I am." with a modern theme  came second. Another funny speech was Steve's "How did I get Here?"

The contest toastmasters were Jonathon and Rosanne.

Thanks to our District Director Jenny and Bunya Toastmasters Marilyn, Miles and Petra for coming to judge our contest.

Mariilyn, Miles and Petra

Meeting 949 "Show Time"

August is the month when the Brisbane Show or Ekka is held, so it was a good theme for our meeting.
August is also the month when there are a lot colds and flu going around, so some members were not able to attend the meeting because of sickness or other reasons. I was one of them, so I don't have any photos this time.

I have been told it was a good meeting. This is what the programme looked like. (I have deleted the surnames, because we only use Christian names on this blog.)

Next meeting will be our Table Topics and Humorous Speech Contest. There is still time to enter. Give it a go!

Edupreneur Award for Trish

Congratulations to Trish who has received the National Edupreneur Award in the Professional Speaking Category

The Edupreneur awards recognise those who use training and education as a medium to work with their clients.

Trish

Trish has been a member of Sandgate Tostmasters for the past 20 years and has achieved great things during that time.

To find out more about Trish, visit her website, http://www.patriciaspringsteen.com

Meeting 948 "Winter"

The weather matched the theme of the evening. It was a cold night, but there was a warm welcome for our guests Louise, Annette, Brian, Cass and Michael.

Toastmaster Jim had prepared plenty of quotes and facts about winter and kept us entertained.

Jim

Paul also chose a quote to introduce his Toast to Winter - one from Edith Sitwell.

"Winter is the time for comfort,

for good food and warmth,

for the touch of a friend's hand 

and a talk beside the fire;

it is the time for home."

~Edith Sitwell

Word Master Reza chose the word "Hibernate." The first person to use it was our guest Cass.

Reza

Reza was also Round Robin Master and asked us all to describe the winter holiday of our dreams.


John T presented an uplifting speech "Empathy - Join the Revolution" and gave us some points on how to develop empathy.

John T

Rosanne's speech "Memories of Winter" was a delightful account of some of her father's experiences and escapades in Denmark before he emigrated to Australia.

Roseanne

Jean S presented her second speech, "Not so secret weapon." Jean used the projector to illustrate her speech.

Jean S

Sharyn and Dave read some poems about winter while Jean was setting up.

Maureen had Table Topics for Darryl, Nick, Paul and Steve.
They were, "A Time when you were Caught in Bad in Weather"
"Which do you like best - Summer or Winter?"
"How does the weather affect your attitude?"
and "Do you depend on a weather report, and how do you get it?"

Darryl

Nick

Paul

Steve

Maureen also provided the raffle (as well as supper) The raffle was a bottle each of red and white wine.It was won by Steve.

Maureen

Evaluators of the speeches and table topics were Dave, Peter , Liz and John S.

Dave

Peter

Liz

John S

Tammy's Listening Quiz resulted in some fines. 

Tammy

Lisa was Time Keeper (for the first time), and Marlene was Grammarian. Sharyn conducted the General Evaluation.

Lisa

Sharyn

Award winners of the evening were John S (Best Evaluation,) Jean S (Personal Best,) Jim (Best Contribution,)  John T (Best Speech,) and Steve (Best Table Topic.)

Award Winners 28/7/15

Next meeting will be on the 11th August (the night before Exhibitiion Wednesday,) with the theme "Show Time."

Don't forget to bring your CL Manual and get someone to evaluate your role.

Einbunpin Festival 2015

Rose

 The annual Einbunpin Festival provides a good opportunity to promote our club. As usual we held an information stall and spoke to a lot of people who stopped to find out about Toastmasters.

Jim with Mr M,  JohnT & Amanda

 Jim and his dog, Mr M proved to be a good draw card. Some people stopped to admire him. (The dog, I mean.)

Annette, Nicole & Rose with Charlie Puppy

Leesa took this photo of Annette, Nicole and Rose.

Passing by

 We saw some interesting people.

Tim & Tammy

Tim & Tammy lent us their tent and were there to help set up and pack away. ( As well as other wonderful helpers.)

John T

Congratulations to John T, who coordinated our stall this year and stayed all day.

Thanks to all who helped - Jonathon, Dave, Tammy Tim, John, Steve, Sharyn, Liz, Annette, Rose (and dog), Jim (and dog) Amanda, Marlene and others who dropped by to encourage us.

We collected contact details of people who are interested in coming along to a meeting.We hope to see at least some of them next Tuesday night.

Club Officer Training

Jim, John, Marlene, Tim and Nick

Six of us attended Club Officer Training Day last Saturday. Treasurer Jim, President John T, Vice President Public Relations Marlene, Secretary Tim, Sergeant at Arms Nick, also Vice President Education Steve who had already gone in to the next session when the photo was taken.

I enjoyed the VPPR session very much, because it took the form of a discussion, with everyone taking part.

It was good to catch up with members from other clubs.