Meeting 997 "Spring is Sprung"

It is spring and our club is blooming.
New member Lien was inducted and our three guests Marie, Stephen and Tamati have all asked to join our club.

Toastmaster Jim  set a light hearted tone for the meeting which continued throughout the evening.

Jim - Toastmaster

Paul's word of the day was "Flourish."

Paul

Round Robin Master Robyn asked, "What make you feel young again?" There were some amusing replies and several managed to use the word of the day.

Zoe presented her second speech, titled "Have you ever driven a car when drunk?" and used a personal story to show how driving when fatigued can be as bad as driving when drunk.

Zoe

Nick's speech "I can see clearly now" was the 6th project in the CC manual. A personal story about overcoming a rare eye disease.

Nick

Evaluators Annette T and Christiane were very encouraging with some points to think about for next time.

Annette

Christiane

Peter's presented his raffle with humour,as he told of his effort to find a spring for a spring raffle - or "even a step to put a spring into." before deciding on flowers and chocolate.

It was won by Gail.

Peter, Gail, Blake

Supper was provided by John T.

Lien & Marie

Acting Sergeant at Arms Darryl called the meeting back to order and Gail chaired the business session. Business under discussion was the removal and storage of our cupboard as it can no longer be kept at the hotel. Daryl volunteered to provide a truck and storage. 

Also an assistant secretary as Tim has commitments that might prevent him from attending every meeting. Since many members were not at the meeting (its flu season) this will be discussed at a future meeting.

Chairman Gail, Treasurer Blake & Secretary Tim

Table Topics Master Paul had some imaginative topics for Robyn, Peter, Blake, Tim, Lien, Marie,

Robyn - Spring cleaning

Peter - Memories of Spring

Blake - What gets your goat

Tim - Garden gnome or fairy

Lien - Spring traditions

Marie - Spring is sprung

Evaluators were Marlene and Karen.

Karen

As well as being time keeper, Darryl filled in as grammarian and demonstrated the points he was making with a funny story.

Darryl

General Evaluator John T explained what had worked well during the meeting and gave some positive points for improvement.

John T

President Annette closed the meeting and presented awards to Nick & Lien (most improved,) Zoe (best speech,) Karen (Best Evaluation,) and Robyn (Best Table Topic.)

Award winners 9th Sept 2017

Next meeting on the 26th September will be a contest night. (International Speech and Evaluation.)

We are looking forward to inducting Marie and Stephen.

Marie & Stephen

Don't forget semi annuals have to be paid before the end of September.

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.