Meeting 996 Contest Night

Judges.

Thanks to our judges who came from Peninsula, Pines, Healthy Chatterers, Narangba and See Change Toastmaster Clubs.

Socialising during the break

Thanks for everyone's involvement

Table Topics Contestants

Leanne, Darryl, Steve ,Christiane, Chris....Table Topic question ".Life is good when ..."

Placegetters 

And the winners were  Christiane, Leanne, Darryl

Humorous Contestants

Steve, Peter, Tim, Blake, Nikki.

Placegetters.

Peter, Nikki, Blake.

Contest Chairman Christiane

Thanks to Christiane, great effort on organising the night, and also acted as Humorous Speech Contest Toastmaster.
and John who was Table Topics Contest Toastmaster.

Nick did a great job as Toastmaster for the evening. It was his first time in that role.

Zoe provided the raffle - which was won by Chris. Special thanks to Zoe for providing the supper.

Lovely to have some first time guests - Trevor from Clayfield Toastmasters, Stephen and James as well as return visitors Marie and Lien. Lien is joining our club!

Next meeting will be Tuesday 12th September. Don't forget Semi Annuals are due by the end of September.

Meeting 995 - Happiness

Happiness was predicted - and it was fulfilled.

The meeting was opened by Acting Sergeant-at-Arms John Topping, this time in the upstairs meeting room at the Full Moon Hotel.

Guests Patrick, Karen, Jun, Sol, Marie and return Guest Lien were welcomed, some had enquired at the recent Einbunpin Festival Toastmasters stall.

Jonathon was stand-in Toastmaster, and he imbibed the Happiness in us all with his GNH (Gross National Happiness) factor. The Greek word for happiness is "Eudomonia" but it means much more than just that. It also embraces fulfilling human nature.

Jonathon

Peter provided an interesting word TRUMP. It had many uses, some not exactly correct, but used throughout the night by many.

Peter

Gail added to the happiness in her Round Robin session by asking each person to describe the best unexpected happy event they can remember.

Paul provided the Toast to Happiness

Trish introduced Nikki who spoke on "How are you doing".

Annette M introduced Christiane who speech was entitled "What's Good for the Goose, is Good for the Gander".

Marlene introduced Tim Gibbs, whose untitled speech from the Special Occasion Speeches manual - Praise, kept us guessing about the mystery person, Mike Hailwood. A famous motorcycle racer and car racer during the 1960s to 1980s he was known personally by Tim.

Timer Robyn was kept on her toes with timing, doing an excellent job of reporting.
















Supper was a good time for fellowship and buying raffle tickets.

Deb offered happiness with the raffle and delivered to winner Jonathon.

A business session conducted by Chairman Steve ran with extended time, with much to discuss about the upcoming 1000th meeting.

Steve

Table Topics presented by Nick were very interesting in keeping with the theme of Happiness.

Nick

John debated whether 'Money can buy happiness', Darryl was asked "What would make your life happier", Liz decided her glass was always half full and Peter walked a fine line deciding if Donald Trump was happy. Plenty of humour kept the happiness level high.

Annete

Carmy

         Carmy and Annette T very ably evaluated the topics.

Grammarian John reinforced some of our good vocabulary but also pointed out ways to avoid the tendency to speak too quickly by using pause.

Mr General Evalulator Darryl provided a short version (owing to time restraints) of the whole meeting, which brought us all more happiness.

Award winners: A tie for Best Speech - Christiane and Nikki
                           A tie for Table Topics - Darryl and John
                           Best Evaluation - Annette T
                           Most Improved - Nikki

Winner Nikki enjoying happiness!

Einbunpin Festival 2017

The weather was perfect for the Einbunpin Festival on Sunday. Our information stall attracted many inquirers who left their contact details. We are looking forward to seeing some of them at our meeting next Tuesday.
 Thanks to all who helped to organise and man the stall.

Peter Christiane & Zoe

Christiane, John, Blake, Zoe, Annette M

Chris found some new friends.

Meeting 994 - "Phobias"

Annette

With a theme of Phobias, this meeting promised to be an interesting one.
President Annette was Toastmaster who provided the definition of the word together with many examples of phobias. Annette welcomed guests Daryl H and Lien, as well as Tamati and Clint.

Acting Sergeant-at-Arms Nick opened the Meeting.

Nick

A toast to Peace, inspired by Nelson Mandela Day, was proposed by Robyn.

Robyn

Nikki

Round Robin was introduced by Nikki, who put twist into asking for a suggestion for a movie title to describe our phobia.

Peter presented his Ice Breaker speech, entertaining us with his humour about stepping out of his comfort zone once he reached 50 years of age. His speech was evaluated by Paul.

Peter

Paul

Deb presented her second speech entitled "Science of Breath" and gave excellent examples of how important breathing correctly can be to our health and well-being. This was evaluated by Leesa. 

Deb

Leesa

John gave us an Interpretative Reading from the Advanced Manual. His reading was entitled "I have a Dream" which was an excerpt from the 1963 speech by famous orator Martin Luther King Jnr.
Jonathon ably evaluated the speech.

John

The raffle was a play on words from Steve. Phobia was pronounced "Four Beers" and that was exactly what his raffle was, plus some other options in case of other phobias such as "fear of no chocolate in the raffle". It was won by Paul.

Steve with one of his "Four Beers"

After supper (provided by Leanne) Blake introduced his Table Topics. To suggest they were obscure and "out there" would be an understatement. Members were given two unpalatable options to choose from, and give reasons why. All 8 participants handled the challenge admirably, despite their fears and phobias of the subject matter.

                                                                                                    Gail our Timekeeper                                                                                    

Darryl

Table Topics were evaluated by Liz and Christiane.

Christiane

Darryl presented a Book Review for "The Happiness Trap" by author Russ Harris.

Tim, pictured below, provided the Grammarian segment, highlighting our correct usage together with how to avoid using the extended AND to connect sentences.

A presentation not seen for some time, that of "Soapbox" was provided by Liz with the subject of Technology - and what she hates about it.

Liz on her soapbox

Listening Quiz by Jonathon was challenging our listening skills.

Marlene provided the General Evaluation with many helpful suggestions for improvement.

Marlene

Award Winners: Best Speech - John

                            Best Evaluation - Jonathon

                            Best Table Topic - Leanne

                            Most Improved - Blake

Winners are Grinners

      Next meeting   Tuesday 8th August.         

Meeting 993 "Travel Adventures"

Congratulations to Christiane, Toastmaster of the Year!

Immediate Past President Steve with Toastmaster of the Year Christiane

Christiane was overseas when awards were presented at our changeover dinner, so Immediate Past President Steve had the pleasure of presenting Christiane with her Toastmaster of the Year trophy at our first meeting of the Toastmaster year.

President Annette

Our new Sergeant at Arms Chris called the meeting to order and President Annette welcomed everyone, including our first time guests Daryl H, Lien and Troy.

Nikki performed the role of Toastmaster of the Day for the first time and provided a lively commentary throughout the meeting.

New member Peter Dooley proposed the toast.

Nikki

Peter

Wordmaster Carmy chose the word "Journey," which was used often during the evening.

Blake presented the Round Robin and invited us to tell what wonder of the world we have visited or would like to visit.

Blake & Peter

Carmy

There were two Ice Breaker speeches. Zoe told us of events in her life that led her to become a lawyer.

Gail speech was "My Life in Education."

Zoe

Gail

Jonathan presented a "Speaking to Inform " project and showed us how to breathe properly and obtain "better pitch, pace, pause and power."

Jonathan

Breathing exercise

The speeches were evaluated by Darryl W, Jim and John T.

Darryl

Jim

John T

Annette M's raffle was a bag of items including, a travel pack, puzzle books, adult colouring book and colour pencils, wine and mints.

It was won by Zoe.

Annette M

After supper provided by Leesa,  Christiane conducted the business session. Some topics for discussion were our information stall at the Einbunpin Festival on the 30th July and celebrations for our 1000th meeting on the 24th October.

Christiane

Robyn had prepared Table Topics for Peter,  Leesa, Deb, Nick, Chris, Annette M, Blake and Marlene.

Karen TT Master

Peter - travel to special event

Leesa - frightening travel experience

Deb - memorable travel experience

Nick - challenging adventure

Chris - what like to do

Annette M - bringing back memories

Blake - wild life tour

Marlene - choose travelling companion

Leanne and Karen evaluated the Table Topics.

Leanne

Karen

Steve was Grammarian. Trish was Time Keeper.

Steve

Trish & Blake

Annette presented a General Evaluation of the meeting and gave some good points for improvement.

Annette

Winners of the evening's awards were Zoe (Best Speech,) Blake (Best Table Topic,) John T (Best Evaluation,) and Nikki (Most Improved.)

Award winners 11th July 2017

Next meeting  25th July. The theme will be "Phobias."