Meeting 1049 "Numbers Count"

This was an extra “5th Tuesday of the month” meeting and it turned out to be one of our most entertaining meetings.

We had 5 guests, Steve, Amanda, Veronica, and Tanya  came for a second visit and first  time visiter Lonnie.

Toastmaster of the evening was Gail, who had some interesting information about numbers.

Gail

The word for the evening, chosen by Marlene was "Plethora," meaning a large or excessive amount.

Stephen proposed  a toast and Chris conducted the Round Robin by asking everyone to tell about a trophy or award they had won.

Stephen

Chris

There were five prepared speeches. John used wonderful body language and humour in his speech, “Being an Aquaholic.” (One photo is not enough to describe this speech.)

John1

John2

John3

John 4

Monica spoke about the value of house plants to purify the air.

Trish presented the speech that she will be using for the contest at the Area Conference and received some valuable feedback.

Monica

Trish

The first three speeches were evaluated by  Darryl, Trevor and Peter.

Darryl

Trevor

Peter

The Timekeeper was Paul. 

Paul - Timekeeper

Trevor presented a fun raffle, which consisted of a cute stuffed mouse, glitter balls, a disco ball and a bottle of  "The Elephant in the Room Pinot." It was won by Tanya.

Trevor 1

Trevor 2

After the supper break, we heard speeches from Leanne and Christiane.

Leanne who holds a HR Truck licence gave us an entertaining insight into the world of truck dirvers in her speech "The Truckie Within" 

In her speech "Bring Your Parent to School Day," Christiane spoke about her job of  Sales and Application Consultant and what it entails. 

Leanne

Christiane

They were evaluated by Darryl and Eileen.

Eileen

Table Topic Master Stephen had topics for Steve, Casey, Annette and Chris.

Steve - Memories involving sport

Casey - Christmas Shopping

Chris - Best holiday spot

Annette - What I'd change about Sandgate

  They were evaluated by John

John

Blake gave a very humorous evaluation of the meeting.

Blake

The evening's awards went to Stephen and Chris - tie (Most Improved,) John and Leanne -tie (Best Speech,) Darryl (Best Evaluation) and Annette (Best Table Topic.)

Award winners 30 Oct 2019

All the best to our competitors at the Area Conference on Saturday.

Next Meeting 12th November.

Meeting 1048 "Superheroes Fictional/Non Fictional"

 It was good to see Liz, Leesa and Trevor back from their travels.   

President Gail welcomed guests Chris, Jason, Amanda, Veronica and Tania and handed control to Toastmaster of the evening, Leesa.           

 

Gail

Leesa

Christiane announced that her father had been her hero, and proposed a toast to "Our Dads."

Christiane

Carmy

Carmy's Red Robin took the form of a continuing story, with everyone adding  to the tale which took many hilarious twists and turns.

Peter presented his final speech project from the Competent Communicator manual. He spoke about the Sandgate Park Run and urged his listeners to take part. 

Stephen also completed  the Competent Communicator manual, with his thought-provoking speech, "Critical Thinking."

Peter 

Stephen

Peter's speech was evaluated by Trevor. Darryl evaluated Stephen's speech.

Trevor

Darryl

Casey, who will be competing in the Humorous Speech Contest at the Area Conference had a practice run of her speech and received feedback from a group evaluation led by Marlene.

 

Casey

Christiane - raffle

Christiane presented her mystery raffle. She would only reveal that it was be to used by two people and would require some cooking skills. It was won by Casey.

Timekeeper Vaughan reported that we were a bit behind time, so supper time was shortened slightly. 

Thanks to Blake for providing supper.

Supper Time

Table Topics Master Gokul had some challenging topics for Trish, Chris, Christiane, Trevor, Annette and John.

Gokul

Annette - No heroes, only villains

Trish -  A Superhero because...

Chris - Woke up in Superman suit

Trevor - Good out of bad

Christiane - Power equals Resposibility

John - Favourite type of Superhero

 

They were evaluated by Jonathon and John.

Jonathon

John

Annette presented a helpful educational session on impromptu speaking - particularly in Table Topics.  She mentioned the P.R.E.P. method, (Make a Point, give a Reason, Example, repeat Point) and also suggested using fact when answering a topic we know something about and fiction for an unknown topic. 

Grammarian Trish reported that there had been very few "Ums" during the meeting. She also suggested using strong phrases and avoiding using the passive voice.

Annette

Trish

Gail gave an evaluation of the entire meeting.

Gail

The evenings awards went to Gokul (Most Improved,) Darryl (Best Evaluator,) John (Best Table Topic,) and Peter (Best Speech.)

Award winners 22 Oct 2019

As there are 5 Tuesdays this month, there will be an extra meeting next Tuesday, 29th October.

Meeting 1047 Octoberfest"

Welcome to our two new members, Gokul and Dan, who were inducted at our meeting by president Gail.

Gokul, & Dan inducted by Gail

Toastmaster for the evening was Paul, who explained that the "Octoberfest" festival had originally been a celebration of the wedding of Bavaria's Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese.

Paul

Chris

The word for the evening "Kaput"  meaning broken or useless was chosen by Chris,

Since Octoberfest is very popular in Germany, Dan proposed a toast to" German Culture."

Gokul conducted the Round Robin inviting everyone to speak for 20 seconds about a festival they had attended.

Dan

Gokul

There were three prepared speeches, all featuring interesting personal experiences. Gail  spoke about mentors that she'd had in her early teaching career.

Her speech was evaluated by Blake.

Gail

Blake

John's speech on conversational styles was also based on his teaching experiences. He told how his gregarious jovial style did not go down well with an authoritarian head teacher.

The speech was evaluated by Jonathon.

John

Jonathon

Christiane presented her Pathways Icebreaker speech and told how she had found the celebration of Christmas very different from what she was used to when she first emigrated to Australia.

Her speech was evaluated by Darryl.

Christiane

Darryl

Darryl had brought a selection of alcoholic drinks  - and a box of chocolates for the raffle.  It was won by Annette, who is a teetotaller, but said she knew where to put them to good use.

Timekeeper Vaughan gave his report. Time to take a break and enjoy the supper provided by Stephen.

Darryl - raffle

Vaughan

The Business Session was chaired by Stephen. The main item discussed was the Area Conference to be held at North Lakes in November.

Stephen - Chairman

Table Topics Master Carmy had topics for  Monica, Dan, Gokul, Steve, Chris, Eileen, Peter and Paul.

Unfortunately, the photographer was engrossed in the topics and forgot to take more than a few photos.

Carmy

Monica

Dan

Gokul

The Table Topics were evaluated by Casey and Annette. 

Casey

Eileen presented a Soap Box segment and complained about people who use mobile phones when driving or when stopped at traffic lights, often causing accidents.

Grammarian Peter reported some descriptive use of words and gave suggestions for avoiding "filler" words. 

Eileen

Peter

Trish gave a very comprehensive evaluation of the meeting. One of the things she mentioned was to avoid the use of the word "but" in evaluations as it negates the positive points.

Trish

President Gail presented the evenings awards to Gokul (Best Table Topic and Most Improved), John (Best Speech), and Jonathon (Best Evaluation).

Award winners 8th Oct 2019

Next meeting Tuesday, 22nd October.