Meeting 911 "Gimmicks and Gadgets"

Dave

"Gimmicks and Gadgets" were the theme of the meeting and Toastmaster Dave had brought some of his favourite gadgets to show us, as well as some interesting information.

In the wake of Remembrance Day, John T proposed a toast to "World Peace."







Wordmaster Pam chose the word "Resplendent" and used it in the sentence "The jockeys were resplendent in their riding gear on Melbourne Cup Day." (Another recent event.)

Pam

Round Robin Master Liz Wo asked us to tell what gadget we found useful, and what gadget we disliked.Just a few of the favourite gadgets were a jar opener, GPS, Television remote control, egg timer, book stand with place holder, hearing aid, dice, aligator peg, etc.

Some of the annoying gadgets were a wireless mouse, swiss army knife with utensils, pineapple corer, bread maker.

Ron

Terry's Table Topics provided some fun. He had brought an assortment of gadgets and asked Ron, Jim, Sharyn, Liz Wo, Maureen and Robert to tell us what they were used for. The responses were highly imaginative and Ron even rode his gadget down the centre of the room.

Terry and Jim

Sharyn

Liz Wo

Robert had brought a special gadget for his "Show and Tell" session. No one 

could guess what it was, so he had to tell us, it was a template to help blind people sign cheques.

Robert & Sharyn

Robert had also brought his new guide dog, Flame. I'll  get a clearer photo next meeting.

Flame

Inge

Inge's raffle was an bag of goodies, including gardening gadgets, toy reindeer, and a tub of Malteesers. It was won by Marlene. Yipeee!

Jim presented his Icebreaker Speech, "Back on the  Bike." He told of his love of bike riding and related the story of owning his first bike. It was evaluated by Marlene.

Trish

Maureen used the data projector for  her speech, "A Lesson in Life." It was evaluated by Trish.

The Business Session was efficiently conducted by Sharyn.

Sharyn

Grammarian Annette commented on the  words and phrases used during the meeting.

Annette

John T

John T had some helpful suggestions in his General Evaluation.

Jim & Nick

Time Keepers were Jim and Nick

Awards went to Jim (Best Speech and Personal Best,) Liz Wo (Best Table Topic,) Trish (Best Evaluator,) and Dave (Best Contribution.)

Area Conference 2013

Area Governor  Sharyn & Trish

Time Keepers John & Trish

Evaluation Contest wiinners

Annette came First in Evaluation.

Liz Wo, Leesa, Pam

 Morning Tea

Humorous Contest

Peter came first!

Contest Toastmaster Annette

Table Topics

 Trish came third

International Speech Contest

 John  S came third.

Contest Toastmaster Liz We

Congratulations to our winners, Annette and Peter, who will go on to compete in the Metropolitan Division Contests on the 22nd March. Congratulations also to Trish and John on coming third in their contests. They all did our club proud!  

Annette was also Contest Toastmaster for the Humorous contest. (The audience even laughed at her joke.) Liz We was Master of Ceremonies for the second half of the Conference. They both did an excellent job.

(Toastmasters from other clubs performed well too, but for privacy reasons I am just focussing on our club.)

Congratulations to our Area Governor Sharyn for organising the event. Everything went smoothly and it was a most enjoyable day.

Trish's House Warming

Peter & Trish

Peter and Trish proved to be excellent hosts at their House Warming Party last Sunday.  After a guided tour of their spacious new home we were served the most delicious food (and plenty of it) and caught up with old friends.

It was a lovely afternoon. Thank you Peter & Trish!

Guests

 This is the area overlooking the pool. Plenty of room for everyone.

Liz, Annette, Sharyn & Monica

Triszh & Liz

Meeting 910 "Comics & Cartoons"

Liz We, Jennine & Harry with Edison

We had a special visitor at our last meeting. Harry and Jennine brought baby Edison to meet us. He was soon surrounded by admirers.

Liz Wo, Maureen, Trish & Jenine with Edison

It was also good to welcome Terry back from his extended trip overseas. Terry brought his neighbour Marlene D to see what a Toastmasters meeting is like. Another guest was Josh, who attended for the first time.

The word for the evening was "Innovation," chosen by Maureen. A few people remembered to use it during the meeting.

New member Pam presented the Round Robin and asked who was our favourite cartoon or comic character. 

Peter had brought along some large copies of cartoon pictures and used them for his Table Topics. They were answered by John S, Liz We, Terry and Sharyn.

Liz We

John S

The Table Topics were evaluated by Jonathon.

An innovative session was presented by Joke Master Sharyn. She gave everyone two slips of paper, with a riddle printed on one and the answer to a different riddle on the other. We were challenged to read out the riddle, with someone else supplying the appropriate answer - with dramatic actions.

Jokemaster Sharyn

Nicole's raffle was a bag of goodies, including a desk calender, jigsaw and Christmas headgear.

  Our guest, Marlene D drew the raffle and was very surprised when she pulled out her own number.

Nicole also filled in as Time Keeper and Cashier.

Nicole

Speeches were presented by Dave, who told us many amazing facts about water, and John T, who told us why watching too much news is bad for us.

Dave

John T

Trish presented a technical speech about Social Media.

Trish

Jonathon cleverly intergrated two jokes about a woman with twins, but didn't get to the punch line, which made it funnier. He was able to complete the joke later.

John

Grammarian Liz We commented on the Ums and Aahs and Liz Wo evaluated the entire meeting.

Liz Wo

The evening's awards went to Marlene H (Best Contribution,) John T (Best Speech,) Sharyn ( Best Table Topic,) Pam (Personal Best,) and Jonathon (Best Evaluation.)

Because there are 5 Tuesdays in this month, it will be an extra week till our next meeting on the 12th November.

Don't forget the Semi Annual Conference at the Eventide Auditorium next Saturday, 2nd October. 8 am - 4 pm. Come and support our contestants. 

Meeting 909 "Post Holiday Blues."

Peter

"Bula Fiji!" was the title of Peter's speech. Peter had just returned from a trip to Fiji the morning of the meeting. Audience participation was a strong point of Peters speech, with everyone learning to say "Bula Fiji!" 

Bula Fuji!

Annette

 


Even Evaluator Annette got into the act.

Liz We

Del

To immunise or not to immunise? Liz We presented a persuasive speech about the Pros and Cons of immunisation.  Evaluator Del offered some encouraging advice to Liz..



Trish demonstrated how to use our club's new projector and the mistakes some people make when making a presentation.

Trish

Other highlights of the meeting were -

The induction of new member Pam. Pam is already working on her Icebreaker. 

Inge

Round Robin. Inge asked, if we had a friend holidaying with us, where would we take them to show them our city or local area?

Some of the suggestions were South Bank,  Lone Pine, the City Cat ferry, St Bernards at Mt Tamborine, Shorncliffe Moora Park, Riverside Markets, The Gabba, the Hop On Hop Off Bus. etc.

Table Topics. Maureen had some thought provoking questions for Inge, Leesa, Jim and Ron.
The Table topics were evaluated by Nicole.

Leesa & Maureen

Nicole

Jim's raffle (a bottle of Scotch) was popular.

JIm

There was a lot to discuss during the business session, which was chaired by Sharyn  eg the Area Conference on the 5th November, and whether the club should buy a computer and a microphone.
Timekeeper Amanda was asked for an extension of time.

Grammarian Liz Wo commented on the use of descriptive words used during the meeting, particularly in the speeches and Dave presented a General Evaluation of the entire evening.

Dave

Awards for the evening went to Nick (Personal Best,) Peter (Best Speech,) Annette (Best Evaluation,) Jonathon (Best Contribution,) and Ron (Best Table Topic.)

Award winners 8 Oct 13