Meeting 975 "Spring is Here"

Spring was in he air at our last meeting. Toastmaster of the evening, Leesa had arrived early and decorated the tables with beautiful arrangements of spring flowers.

We had two guests, Alex from Bunya Toastmasters Club and Leesa's friend Cheryl who had grown the roses.

Alex and Leesa

 President Steve was Wordmaster. His word for the evening was "Bud." It was used frequently throughout the evening.

Steve

Reza proposed a toast to "Spring." Round Robin Christiane asked what memories certain flowers brought to mind - particularly Jacaranda. flowers.

Reza (in glass)

Christiane

There two prepared speeches. Steve presented a speech on Evaluation.  Jonathon spoke about marketing.

Steve

Jonathon

They were evaluated by Darryl  and Annette.

Darryl

Annette

Christiane spoke briefly  about  club passports. The idea is to visit as many Toastmasters clubs as possible and have the "Passport" signed by the club president.

The Business Session  was conducted by Marlene. Since the reports had been sent by email and there was no general business, the session was finished in record time.

Table Topics Master Liz had topics for Alex, Paul, Annette W, Jim, Reza, Nick and Dave.

Alex -Spring Cleaning

Paul - Hate Spring Cleaning

Christiane - Carnival of flowera

Nick -Fathers Day

Dave - Poetry

Annette W - Hayfever

Jim - Flowers you like

Sorry, I missed getting a photo of Liz & Reza.

The table Topics were evaluated by Karen and Carmy.

Karen

Carmy

Grammarian Paul commented on the word pictures used during the meeting.

Darryl "pulled our leg" with a funny joke.

Jonathon's "Mojo" raffle

Jonathon's raffle was won by Carmy (I think). Leesa's floral arrangements were also raffled and won by Annette T & Jim.

Dave

Dave had good advice for all in his General Evaluation.

The evening's awards went to  Jonathon (Best Speech,) Leesa ( Best Contribution,) Dave (Best Table Topic,) Carmy (Personal Best,) and Karen (Best Evaluation.)

Winners 13 Sept 20016

Next  meeting on the 27th September will be our Evaluation and International Speech Contests. 

More contestants are needed for the International Speech Contest! 

Semi Annuals are due next by the end of this month.

Meeting 974 Humorous & TT Contests

Congratulations to the place getters in the contests last meeting. We heard some funny speeches in the Humorous Speech contest. Darryl came first with his tale about an incident with a mango tree, Annette T spoke about an eventful cruise and came second. Jim's speech about a Career choice earned him Third place.

 Humorous Contest - Jim (third) Annette (Second) Darryl (First)

 The Table Topic contest was well represented. The topic was "One moment in time." Annette T won first place, Steve second and Christiane third.

Table Topics Contest - Annette (First) Steve (Second) Christiane (Third)

 Photos were not allowed during the contest, but here are some of the contestants being intervieved afterward.

Leanne

Annette T

Steve

Daryl

Contest Toastmaster Liz with Dave

Christiane

Jim with Contest Toastmaster Steve

Some of the audience

Supper Time

Jim's raffle (2 bottles of wine) was won by Annette W.

Jim's raffle

Annette W

Thanks to the judges who gave their time.

Rose, Rod & Jenny

Next meeting  13th September - still another week away, because there were 5 Tuesdays in August.

The Evaluation and International Speech contests will be held on the 27th September. More contestants needed!

Meeting 973 "Trains"

Who else but train buff Dave to perform the role of Toastmaster of the day?

Dave

Dave's train

S A A Nick called meeting to order

Annette W's speech  - Longevity

Nick's speech - Sandgate Jetty

Carmy's speech -AQ Bus

Annette T evaluated Annette W's speech

Liz evaluated  Nick's speech

Steve evaluated Carmy's speech

Jim's raffle

Wendy- Time Keeper

Trish - Chairman

Leanne - Table Topics Master

Steve - train sound

 Dave -  TT I think I can

Trish - TT Train to Canada

Steve - TT Train journey

Liz - TT All Aboard

Christiane TT -  Famous Train

Annette T - TT Eavesdropping

Kirsty O - Grammarian

Tim - Listening Quiz

Christiane - Joke

Darryl - General Evaluator

Award winners
Dave, Nick, Annette W, Liz & Rose

Thanks to Rose for taking photos in my absence.

The next meeting on the 23rd August will be our Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest night.

Einbunpin Festival 2016

As usual, we conducted a Toastmasters information stand at the recent Einbunpin Festival.

Jim & Mr M

Annette W, Marlene, Jim, Christiane

Steve coordinated our stall and was assisted by Jim, Nick, Leesa, Annette T, Wendy, Dave, Rose, Christiane, Marlene  and Annette W  - as well as our hairy friends, Charlie puppy and Mr M.
Thanks to Darryl and Leanne for providing us with a table and chairs.

We met some interesting people.

Steve with Town Crier

Pack up time

Jim and Nick assisted Steve in setting up the tent, keeping it steady throughout the day and packing up when the Festival was over.

It was a successful event and we received contact details for over 16 potential visitors to our meeting

It was good to relax when it was all over.

Thanks to Leesa for some of the photos.