A warm welcome to all of our members who renewed and and we had more than 10 guests this evening to discover Toastmasters.
Rachel opened up the meeting as Club President.
Our Toastmaster this evening was Hugh, who managed to fit in the word of the day many many times.
Time was monitored by Leanne, with all our timing cards.
Brad was our Grammarian, choosing “Cabal as the word of the day, which referred to groups.
Christine introduced our new guests for the evening as well as sharing her own experience in becoming a member of Toastmasters.
Shamim was our Table Topics Master, picking news topics as the theme for the evening.
Kirsty was our Table Topics Evaluator, with a whopping 8 evaluations so that guests and members received lots of feedback.
We had 3 great speeches tonight at the start of the second half (their speech evaluators in brackets):
- Simonetta – “The Power of DNA tests” – A project #2 detailing her experienced of testing for illnesses (Ana)
- Ada – “The bitter truth about sugar” – Another project #2 speech on the dangerous effects of too much sugar (Marcelo)
- Doris– “5 years in the making” – Her icebreaker speaker to introduce her to the club and it’s taken a long time to get here (Tom)
Congratulations to Ada for best speaker, Tom for best evaluator and Andrew with best table topic defending pigeons.
A reminder that Brad and Leanne will be representing the club at the Area level humorous speech and table topic contest on Mon 10th October at the London Law school, near Moorgate. Everyone is encouraged to come along to cheer them on to success.
You can register here:
Have a great week.
