Dear Blue Tongue members, intending members and guests, Meeting #129 was the held on Wednesday 28th October. Jason took on the role of timer and Mark chaired the meeting.
Masafumi presented his Word of the Day – ‘Colourful’. Whilst our speeches provided plenty of colourful descriptions, we avoided getting too colourful with our language.
Brendhan took on the Table Topics master’s role and presented the members and guests with a host of current affairs topics. The topics ranged from the financial woes of James Parker to the language skills of Kevin Rudd. This session got everyone warmed up for the evening.
The table topics session concluded after Jason provided the evaluation.
The second half of the evening started with a toast by Jason. The toast was dedicated to the
great American comedian Bill Cosby who 24 hours earlier received the annual Mark Twain humour award for contribution to the American society through humour.
Tara welcomed our visitor Lachlan and encouraged him to tell a little of why he had come to visit our club. Lachlan was there to improve his speaking skills.
Our toastmaster for the evening Brendhan then introduced our two speakers in the prepared speeches part of the evening.
Congratulations to Tara on delivering an excellent maiden ice breaker speech. The audience was taken along with her every step of the way from NZ, US, NZ and then to Australia.
Mark then delivered a speech from the Better Club educational series. It gave the audience an understanding on how to become a Distinguish Toast Master.
Tara’s speech was evaluated by Mark.
Jason then tested each member’s listening skills with a host of questions glean from the speeches from the evening.
Masafumi then provided us with the My Word report.
The evening concluded with Jason providing the timer’s report.
Mark closed the meeting at 7:08pm.
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The next meeting for Blue Tongue Toastmasters will be held on Wednesday 11th November:
When: 5.45pm, Wednesday 11th November
Where: IBM Building (Room 13.05)
601 Pacific Highway
St Leonards NSW 2065
We will be meeting in the ground floor reception area at 5.30pm before going up to the meeting room.
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:
Chairman
Table Topics Evaluators (1)
Toastmaster
Speaker Evaluators (3)
Did you listen?
General Evaluator
Best regards,
Mark Ransom
VP Education
Blue Tongue Toastmasters
ph: 0419 767 250
