Area Conference 2019

The theme of the conference was "Motivate and Celebrate" - and participants certainly did that!

Area Director Daniel Reid

Conference Chair Christiane

Humorous Speech Contest Toastmaster Gail

Casey - Humorous Speech

Humorous Speech Participants

Darryl came first
 in the Evaluation Contest

Evaluation Contest
First Place Darryl (SandgateTM) 2nd Place John (Bracken Ridge) 

Table Topics Contest Participants 

First Place John (Bracken Ridge TM)
 2nd Madonna (Peninsula) 3rd Leanne (Sandgate)
Table Topics Contest

Guest Speaker Trish Jackson
Artist with a Difference
https://footsiephotos.com/

Guest Speaker Chris McCarthy
https://www.hearandsay.com.au/

John represented Bracken Ridge TM and Sandgate TM

First place John (Bracken Ridge) 2nd Trish Sandgate
International Speech Contest

Our members who attended  - John & Casey not in photo

Thanks to Leanne for some of the photos.

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.