Welcome back everyone from the festive break, and we hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. This evening we also welcomed many new guests, who had improving public speaking as their resolution for this year !
Our Toastmaster was Tom, opening the meeting to welcome everyone and making sure the evening ran smoothly
Doris was our timekeeper, explaining the importance to making sure we stick to within the allocated time.
Leanne was our Table Topics Master, using opening line of a book for people to tell their stories, Ga Lok provided feedback to all of our Table Topic speakers.
Ana was our Sargent at Arms to introduce the guests, and asking them what was their favourite festive food.
Two speeches this evening:
- Kirsty with a project #4 How to Say it Speech: “A load of old rubbish”, speech evaluated by Marcelo
- Brad with an advanced speech project: “Cloud Computing as we know it”, speech evaluated by William, a visiting Toastmaster from Florida, USA.
We also had Alfredo, visiting from London Public Speakers club, who provided an insightful General Evaluation.
Congratulations to Brad for winning best table topic topic, where is received received a text message from the Queen for his tea making skills, and Ga Lok for best evaluator.
Next meeting will be on Tues 17th Jan; and and we look forward to seeing everyone soon.
