Dear Blue Tongue members, intending members and guests,
 
The last meeting (Meeting #125) was held on Wednesday the 8th July and chaired by Dale (our new club president). This meeting is also the first for the newly elected members. Mark took on the timing assignment while Dale provided our ‘Word of the Day’ – ‘Recover’.
 
We had 2 visitor at the meeting – Andy who was originally from Hong Kong and have been in Australia for two years. Chris, a Chatswood local who recently become a graduate of Fitness Institute of Australia.
 
The table topic for the evening presented by Jason was on meanings and origins of Australian idioms. Tara, our newest club member was the evaluator for the table topics speeches and gave all speakers great tips.
Mark was the winner for the evening with his descriptions of the idiom ” Leaving the porch light on for Harold Holt”.
 
Ying, inspired by the creativity of the MasterChef series, delivered a heart-felt Toast to all the amateur cooks who are cooking for passion and bringing families together.
 
Marcus welcomed our two guest for the evening, Andy and Chris. Marcus asked them both to share with us an embarrassing moment. For Andy it was at that very moment, while Chris relived his experience in a riding the London underground (the tube).
 
Elke took on the road of the Toastmaster and introduced:
Mawkus (Marcus) who delivered his second speech on the topic of self help. Mawkus delivered a  powerful speech on how one can start to achieve by employing techniques to turn out on bad experience of ones past. Mawkus’ speech also took out the speech for the evening.
 
Mark our next speaker then set the scene and then delivered Patrick Henry’s stirring call to arms delivered just before the American War of Independence – “Give me liberty or give me death”.
 
Mawkus was evaluated by Matt, who also shared a passion on the topic of self help. “Never admit you are nervous to the audience” was a key evaluation offered by Matt.
 
Mark was then evaluated by Elke, who also gave an excellent evaluation on how Mark was able to achieve passion by varying the pace of speech.
 
Jason then delivered the “Did you Listen” assignment based on speeches made by our club members and guests through the evening.
 
Dale scored our efforts on weaving his Word of the Day ‘Recover’ into our assignments during the evening. Dale also commented on the use of ‘filler’ words such as Ums & Ahs.
 
The final evaluation was by Elke who presented a General Evaluation of the meeting – looking at all the roles and assignments not previously evaluated.
 
Our two visitors also gave their feedback on the evening’s proceedings.
 
The meeting was closed by Dale at 7:20 pm.
 
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The next meeting for Blue Tongue Toastmasters is our Annual CHANGEOVER DINNER – to be held on Wednesday the 22nd of July 2009.  
 
When: 5.45pm for 6pm, Wednesday 22nd July
Where: Nilgiri’s (2 doors down from the Post Office).
81-83 Christie St
St Leonards NSW 2065
We can meet in the reception area at IBM at 5.30pm to go to the restaurant.
 
This is an award winning Indian restaurant (we held our last changeover dinner here – I expect this to be a great meeting with table topics and prepared speeches (it will be a slightly amended agenda (refer attached)).  
 
The club will be subsiding the banquet food menu. All members (and any visitors who join and pay on the night) will pay $20 only per head. Visitors are welcome however the cost will be $42 per head). Drinks are not included and will be ‘pay as you go’.  
 
We MUST Know who will be attending (to confirm our booking) by this Friday 17th July (reply to this email advising Yes/No).
   
 
I have attached below a draft agenda for the meeting. Please let me know:
a) If you will be attending the meeting or send your apologies
b) If you would like to present any other assignment – I am looking for members to take on the following meeting assignments:  
 
Evaluators for table topics (2)
Visitors Welcome
Did you Listen?
 
 
Best regards,
 
Mark Ransom
VP Education
Blue Tongue Toastmasters
ph: 0419 767 250