Despite a power outage and some friendly help from UKPN, another excellent meeting.
Paul, the President opened the meeting and gave an update on the contest held 2 weeks. The Area 58 contest, in which Paul will be representing the club in both the humours speech and table topics contest against 6 other clubs in the area is on tonight, out our meeting venue so we have home advantage.
Rachel as Toastmaster welcomed everyone and reminded them to stretch themselves and get outside their comfort zones.
Kylie was our timekeeper; she recently joined the club and this was her first functionary role to ensure all speakers kept to time.
Felicitas was our Table Topics Master, using unusual facts as the basis for impromptu speaking for our members and guests.
Leanne was our Topics Evaluator; giving encouragement and feedback to all 10 table topics.
Dami, another brand new member having visited several times as a guest; introduced our new guests for the evening.
We had 3 great speeches tonight (their speech evaluators in brackets):
- Lucas– What defines me (Shamim)
- Marcelo – How sweet is sweet enough (Leigh)
- Olli (a visiting Toastmaster from Southampton)– My Trip to the dentist (Hugh)
It was a likely and action packed meeting; congratulations to Lucas for delivering his Icebreaker speech, Marcelo winning best speech, Leanne winning best evaluator and Ga Lok who won best table topic.
See you at the area contest on 30th Sept and the next meeting on Tuesday 6th October.
Ga Lok
